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发表于2024-12-22
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What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from "What Maisie Knew "to "Make Way for Ducklings"--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel "and Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style." It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
詹姆斯•伍德(James Wood,1965— ),英国著名文学评论家、作家,现任哈佛大学文学批评实践教授和《纽约客》专栏作家。
虽然里面几乎所有观点都不新鲜,但能把小说读得和诗歌一样细致,并且总体而言评说中肯,一点也不玄奥神秘,可算是没有把艺术偷偷变成哲学,而是把它认真地当手工制品,一点一点地分析一部小说是怎么技术性地搭建起来的。这次下定决心没有读译本而是直接读原文,感觉相当不同:反倒是英语我能看得更仔细,更细心跟着作者体会例文的妙处,但如果读中文却可能会草草略过,觉得“毫不惊艳”。我的猜想是我中文水平很差,需要多补习文言与现代诗,或者就是现在的中文本身已经被糟蹋得失去了精细感(至少现代汉语词汇的等级制感觉真是莫名混乱,而英语里还保留高中低几个层次,看到奥斯汀用一个“denominate”便嘲讽意味全出,却怎么也想不出“小人用大词”的那种中文翻译,顿感差距)....不提了,还是应该好好学习怎么说优美的中国话(
评分虽然里面几乎所有观点都不新鲜,但能把小说读得和诗歌一样细致,并且总体而言评说中肯,一点也不玄奥神秘,可算是没有把艺术偷偷变成哲学,而是把它认真地当手工制品,一点一点地分析一部小说是怎么技术性地搭建起来的。这次下定决心没有读译本而是直接读原文,感觉相当不同:反倒是英语我能看得更仔细,更细心跟着作者体会例文的妙处,但如果读中文却可能会草草略过,觉得“毫不惊艳”。我的猜想是我中文水平很差,需要多补习文言与现代诗,或者就是现在的中文本身已经被糟蹋得失去了精细感(至少现代汉语词汇的等级制感觉真是莫名混乱,而英语里还保留高中低几个层次,看到奥斯汀用一个“denominate”便嘲讽意味全出,却怎么也想不出“小人用大词”的那种中文翻译,顿感差距)....不提了,还是应该好好学习怎么说优美的中国话(
评分Short but simple and interesting. Fiction teaches people how to live, then life teaches us how to enjoy fiction. They are entangled with each other, beautifying human being itself perfectly.
评分“The true writer, that free servant of life, is one who must always be acting as if life were a category beyond anything the novel and yet grasped; as if life itself were always on the verge of becoming conventional.”
评分free indirect syle. the nature of convention is the normalization of once innovative writing techniques, the aging of which gives the commonly known genre name to it. every writer's perception of what fiction is after is limited by their own historical periods, and that thus gives the general appearance of the genre they belong to.
即使在阅读了一些质量不错的文学评论和文学史之后,我仍然会对文学理论的意义持怀疑态度,尤其是将文学像朝代或国家一样,以各种“主义”和“流派”划分开来。但同时,我又绞尽脑汁想要掌握和厘清这些“主义”们的来龙去脉,因为文学世界实在过于庞杂,就像一团团聚集或游离的...
评分《小说机杼》在123小节戛然而止。译者的事就算结了。但詹姆斯·伍德背后还有太多亟待挖掘。作为读者,我像黑色故事里的那种侦探,不愿停手。 英语有个诡趣,“声名远播”(famous)常故意和 “恶名昭著”(infamous)通用。詹姆斯•伍德正是一位堪称infamous的批评家。从最...
评分If the book has a larger argument, it is that fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities. 细节: Free indirect speech见于细节之中:认真辨别是谁在说话 Free indirect style is a...
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