安妮·法迪曼(Anne Fadiman),生于美国纽约市,在康涅狄格州和洛杉矶长大,毕业于哈佛大学。毕业后,她在怀俄明州当野外探险向导,后来回到纽约从事写作。曾任《生活》杂志的特约撰稿人,《文明》杂志编辑和《美国学人》编辑。她的第一本书《鬼怪抓住你,你就跌倒了》(The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,FSG,1997)获“美国国家书评奖”,她还写有随笔集《书趣》(Ex Libris),编有《经典重温》(Rereadings,FSG,2005)等作品。她现与家人住在马萨诸塞州西部,并担任耶鲁大学弗朗西斯住校作家。
Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill," whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, "Ex Libris" establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
无处不在的平淡中不时渗透出读书的乐趣、闪烁着人生的哲理。 “从书中醒来”,已经很久没有这种令人愉悦的感觉——那该是一种多么优雅的姿势——抬起眼皮,可以想象一下。 扉页题词?——从来也没有。互相赠送书籍真的是一种很高雅的表达关爱的方式。印象里,父亲送了一本新...
评分本书的作者和目标读者是同一群人,他们被叫做书迷、书痴或书虫(bibliophiles, bibliomania, book-worms)都可以,但绝对不是什么普通读者。普通读者可以喜欢言情武侠奇幻,也可以研读军事历史哲学,但只有《书趣》这样的书之书不会是普通读者的菜。读书之书的是那些狼吞虎咽地...
评分无处不在的平淡中不时渗透出读书的乐趣、闪烁着人生的哲理。 “从书中醒来”,已经很久没有这种令人愉悦的感觉——那该是一种多么优雅的姿势——抬起眼皮,可以想象一下。 扉页题词?——从来也没有。互相赠送书籍真的是一种很高雅的表达关爱的方式。印象里,父亲送了一本新...
评分加拿大随笔作家斯坦·珀斯基曾说,对读者而言,必须要有一百万部自传,因为我们似乎在一本接一本的书中发现了自身生命的痕迹。这种观点对一个爱书人的我而言,不消说一定会高举双手赞成的。但生命中总有那么一个小小意外的痛苦时刻,这不,这个看似小概率的事件让我在读美国作...
评分这本书的副标题是——“一个普通读者的自白”。 作者安妮·法迪曼出生书香门第,父亲、母亲、哥哥、老公都是作家、学问家,家族藏书过万应该是没有问题的。这样的一个人谦称自己为普通读者,叫我们这些喜欢瞎看一气的三脚猫们情何以堪啊。 当然,她这么说也不是过分的谦虚,...
原来中文翻作书趣 翻得真好 这么有趣的书真是要慢慢看的 看完了会失落的呢
评分有趣。
评分The book starts with this: When the Irish novelist John Mcgahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, "wake out of the book." I was such a child -- and I was such a child.
评分有趣。
评分有趣。
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