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发表于2024-11-03
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From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed short story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
目前讀到的寫作課文集裏最好看的瞭。書的結構安排有新意:短篇小說+文本分析+桑德斯的寫作經驗分享。讀後對俄羅斯文學、涉及的幾位作傢和寫作技法、小說和閱讀的意義都有瞭新的體會。曾經讓我受不瞭的桑德斯式的corporate humor、acronym、略為輕佻的語氣,如今都讓這位老師顯得更隨和謙虛,讓人又喜歡又尊敬。完全沒想到他已經六十一歲瞭。希望他繼續快樂地寫下去。
評分目前讀到的寫作課文集裏最好看的瞭。書的結構安排有新意:短篇小說+文本分析+桑德斯的寫作經驗分享。讀後對俄羅斯文學、涉及的幾位作傢和寫作技法、小說和閱讀的意義都有瞭新的體會。曾經讓我受不瞭的桑德斯式的corporate humor、acronym、略為輕佻的語氣,如今都讓這位老師顯得更隨和謙虛,讓人又喜歡又尊敬。完全沒想到他已經六十一歲瞭。希望他繼續快樂地寫下去。
評分太好看瞭!雖然是寫作指南,但其實很適閤當作“普通讀者如何讀書之手把手教程”。作者解析時的口吻足夠平易近人,而且字裏行間可以感受到他對這些故事的真心喜歡。P.S. 契訶夫太好瞭!
評分雖然是寫給作傢們的,但作為讀者也很受用
評分太好看瞭!雖然是寫作指南,但其實很適閤當作“普通讀者如何讀書之手把手教程”。作者解析時的口吻足夠平易近人,而且字裏行間可以感受到他對這些故事的真心喜歡。P.S. 契訶夫太好瞭!
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024