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发表于2024-12-26
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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.
作為一個在紐約鬧市獨自生活過的人,特彆能體會到那種近乎絕望的孤獨感,這本書體會到瞭,我給四顆星
評分喜歡寫愛德華·霍珀那章
評分在Portland的Powell's Books找到這本書的時候欣喜若狂,也因為這本書重新審視瞭孤獨這個話題。
評分作為一個在紐約鬧市獨自生活過的人,特彆能體會到那種近乎絕望的孤獨感,這本書體會到瞭,我給四顆星
評分"Loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive." Good conclusion, yet the book might be even better if it looks at the issue from the perspective of ordinary people rather than famous artists.
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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The Lonely City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024