This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author.
In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov, and discovers why these writers endure. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breath-taking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's "Middlemarch".
She looks to John Le Carre for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield who offer clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, "Reading Like a Writer" will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
In this entertaining and edifying New York Times best-seller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters and to discover why their work has endured.
Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart; to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carre for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue; and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail. And, most importantly, she cautions listeners to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted.
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这本书的结构安排,可以说是精妙绝伦,它既有宏观的理论铺陈,又不乏微观的案例剖析,两者结合得天衣无缝。作者在处理不同流派或风格的文本时,展现出了惊人的适应性和洞察力。例如,他对意识流小说的分析,没有陷入到晦涩难懂的泥潭,反而通过梳理其内在的逻辑链条,使得那些看似混乱的内心独白变得清晰可辨,这无疑为那些对现代主义感到畏惧的读者提供了极大的帮助。更令人赞叹的是,作者似乎从不自我标榜,所有的论述都建立在对文本的尊重之上,他像一个细心的考古学家,小心翼翼地剥开历史的尘埃,展示出文本最原始的形态和力量。这种不咄咄逼人、却又掷地有声的论证方式,让人心悦诚服。它不是在教你如何“写出伟大作品”,而是在教你如何“像一个伟大的作者一样去阅读”,两者之间有着本质的区别,而后者才是真正的艺术。
评分读完这本书,我感觉自己不再是一个单纯的文本消费者,而更像是一个积极的、批判性的参与者。作者对“重读”的推崇,给我留下了极为深刻的印象。他反复强调,真正的理解往往发生在第二次、第三次接触文本时,因为初读时我们的大脑忙于应对情节和人物,而重读时才能有余力去欣赏那些隐藏在表象之下的精妙构建。他引导我们关注那些看似无关紧要的道具、场景的反复出现,以及它们是如何在不同章节中被赋予了新的象征意义。这种“迭代式”的阅读方法,极大地提升了我对文本连贯性和主题深度的感知能力。与其说这是一本关于阅读的书,不如说它是一本关于“深度认知”的指南,它不仅改变了我看书的方式,也潜移默化地影响了我对信息进行深度加工和分析的思维模式。
评分这本书的装帧设计本身就透露着一种沉静而富有质感的气息,拿到手中,那微微泛黄的书页和细腻的纸张触感,仿佛能将人瞬间拉入一个专属的阅读空间。我尤其欣赏作者在开篇时所营造的那种娓娓道来的氛围,它不像某些工具书那样急于抛出理论和方法,而是像一位经验丰富的老友,轻声细语地引导你进入文本的肌理之中。他并没有直接告诉我“应该”怎么读,而是通过一系列精心挑选的文学片段,展现了文本背后那些微妙的、常常被我们忽略的“暗流涌动”。比如,他对某段对话中停顿的处理,那种看似不经意却精准拿捏了人物心理活动的描写,让我第一次意识到,原来文字的留白处,往往比那些直白的陈述承载了更多的重量。这种由内而外的引导,让我开始审视自己以往阅读的肤浅性,仿佛蒙在眼睛上的那层薄雾被轻轻拂开,露出了文字结构深处的骨架。整个阅读过程,更像是一场与高明匠人的对话,学习的不是简单的技巧,而是理解创作意图的底层逻辑。
评分这本书最让我感到惊喜的是,它成功地将晦涩的文学理论转化为可以实践的阅读策略。许多文学理论读本读起来像天书,充满着难以企及的术语和绕口的定义,让人望而却步。然而,这本书的叙事风格是极其亲切和生活化的。作者常常用一些生活中的小场景来类比复杂的写作手法,比如他用“做菜的火候”来解释叙事张力的拿捏,这种类比的精准度令人拍案叫绝。通过这样的方式,那些原本高高在上的文学概念,一下子变得触手可及,仿佛明天我就可以带着这些“新工具”去审视我的书架。这种可操作性,是这本书区别于许多纯理论著作的关键所在。它不只是停留在“是什么”的层面,而是有力地指向了“怎么做”和“为什么这样做会有效”的深层探讨,让我的阅读习惯发生了质的变化。
评分阅读这本书的体验是极其富有层次感的,它就像一个多棱镜,从不同的角度折射出文学作品的复杂光芒。我发现作者对“声音”这一概念的解析尤其独到。我们通常理解的声音是听觉上的,但在作者的笔下,“声音”被扩展到了笔触的力度、句式的长短、甚至词语选择的冷暖。我记得他分析某位作家的叙事声音时,用到了“一种带着潮湿泥土气息的、略显沙哑的低语”这样的描述,这种具象化的比喻,极大地拓宽了我对文学批评的想象边界。这种深入到句子层面的解构,要求读者必须慢下来,甚至需要反复咀嚼某些句子,才能领会其深层含义。这对我而言,是一种挑战,更是一种享受,因为它迫使我从单纯的“接收信息”状态,转变为主动的“参与建构”过程。读完之后,我再去看那些我自认为熟悉的经典作品时,总能捕捉到以前从未察觉到的细微的节奏变化,这无疑极大地丰富了我的精神世界。
评分听建议去重读契科夫。
评分Authors mentioned in the book: Chekhov, Joyce, Austen, George Eliot, Kafka, Tolstoy, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Nabokov, Raymond Carver, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, etc. "Literature is the endless source of courage and confirmation," "It was my ritual, and my reward."
评分Authors mentioned in the book: Chekhov, Joyce, Austen, George Eliot, Kafka, Tolstoy, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Nabokov, Raymond Carver, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, etc. "Literature is the endless source of courage and confirmation," "It was my ritual, and my reward."
评分文本分析与个人体验,几乎没有提及什么理论,需要读者紧密跟随体悟,合适的就是好的。有些失望,英语能力和教学方式,我没能学到太多。 Learning: Observation and consciousness; Writing without judgement; Read Chekhov.
评分Authors mentioned in the book: Chekhov, Joyce, Austen, George Eliot, Kafka, Tolstoy, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Nabokov, Raymond Carver, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, etc. "Literature is the endless source of courage and confirmation," "It was my ritual, and my reward."
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