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发表于2024-12-31
Outline pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language
A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.
Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.
Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people’s motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk’s finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada, and spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, before her family returned to England, in 1974, when Cusk was 8 years old. She read English at New College, Oxford.
Cusk is the Whitbread Award–winning author of two memoirs, including The Last Supper, and seven novels, including Arlington Park, Saving Agnes, The Temporary, The Country Life, and The Lucky Ones.
She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize, and longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'
She lives in Brighton, England.
幾乎是用對話完成的小說 每個章節encounter不同的人 飛機上的鄰座 寫作課的學生和老師 舊友 舊友的朋友 剛見麵的陌生人。場景極其自然 隨意而不乏深刻 似是平常交談但是可窺見隱含的深意 每段對話都不會指嚮任何結論 整本書就像生活本身一樣不斷地carry on and on。對話填充瞭人物周圍的空間,可是人物本身仍是空白,這就是outline.
評分一段接一段看似輕描淡寫的路人敘述的故事,涵蓋瞭傢人夫妻之間的各種感情問題和人生感悟,非常特彆的小說形式。
評分一段接一段看似輕描淡寫的路人敘述的故事,涵蓋瞭傢人夫妻之間的各種感情問題和人生感悟,非常特彆的小說形式。
評分這個教授選的reading竟沒有一本喜歡的噢????今天consultation因為我準備瞭過多references(就四個而且都是用來conceptualize my ideas of failure的,又不是都close reading)對我批瞭一通,說我就不能寫的簡單點嗎?復雜的留著博士論文寫。好纍。估計我們department除瞭我導師沒人能/願意欣賞我。再次證明選導師時的運氣以及這個學期快過完吧,開始每天焦慮醒瞭...
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Outline pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024