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发表于2024-12-22
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What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.
Humane, provocative and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art. It's a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and has received grants from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, England.
"...the revelation that after an experience of loneliness both the damaged individual and the healthy society work in concert to maintain separation."
评分刚读第一章,感觉写到心里了
评分We are individuals, so we can't possibly escape loneliness.
评分意料之外的,这本人物传记、自传、文化评论结合体是我的五星阅读。 并不刻意寻找关于艺术、或70-90年代纽约这类主题的我竟在一边细品作者描述这个城市、时代的艺术家时,一边不断在寻找这些他们的作品和事迹。如作者表达的那样,孤独感,它并不会因为我们在熙熙攘攘的人群, 或全民参与的网络世界而减少。随着经济发展,gentrification改变的不仅是大同小异的城,更负面的副产品却是同化人的思想。而城里的人们前所未有更加孤独,但又偏偏不能轻易表达这些“负能量”的个人感受。 Laing从新的角度,带我们看艺术家的作品、记录,镜头里描述这千百年来人类共有的感受,突然间让我觉得孤独感少了。看他们如何在艺术里表达自我,表达孤独,在一个对这些艺术家极不友好的时代里发声。很有力量。
评分喜欢写爱德华·霍珀那章
孤独有着矛盾的属性,被孤独束缚的人,既渴望获得别人的爱和需要,又恐惧和别人亲密接触,刻意和他人保持距离。正是因为这种矛盾冲突,导致孤独的人变得更加孤立和疏远。 矛盾,是普遍存在的,并不仅存在于孤独患者身上。但有些人身上携带的矛盾属性强于其他人。 我是孤独的吗?我该...
评分《孤独的城市》书评 书评搞到最后才落笔,有点晚了,不过还是非常感谢未读给我机会接触到这么一本好书,了解了之前很少能够读到的领域。 今早看到苏珊•桑塔格的一段话“每个降临世间的人都拥有双重公民身份,其一属于健康王国,另一则属于疾病王国。” 《孤独的城市》整体看...
评分本书作者孤身一人居住在纽约这座玻璃牢笼般的城市中时,一种密感的缺失状态促使她不断地追问孤独的本质。她从数名具有代表性的当代艺术家为切入点,以用一种自然流动的叙事方式,将爱德华·霍珀、安迪·沃霍尔、亨利·达戈、大卫·沃纳洛维奇等当代艺术家的生平与自己的反思浑...
评分The content of the book does not justify the title. Every chapter focuses on one artist, and describes their life, art and their loneliness. Since I'm not interested in artists, this is not the book I want, and I feel I was deceived. Bad feeling...I think t...
评分正逢疫期,前陣子太過沉於絕望。這幾天才逐漸緩和下來,要求自己刷新聞次數減少,且每次必須轉發有效信息,同時重新撿起自己本該做的事情,希望一切儘快恢復光明。 因為還是頗難打開那些過於歡快的主題,所以選讀了Olivia Laing的這本,買了大半年遲遲未讀。看書前需要做的事,...
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