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发表于2024-12-23
How Fiction Works pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint? Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carre, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.
詹姆斯•伍德(James Wood,1965— ),英國著名文學評論傢、作傢,現任哈佛大學文學批評實踐教授和《紐約客》專欄作傢。
作者用輕快的筆調解釋小說的元素,引用的例子有經典也有現代,可算是延伸瞭Henry James 的the art of fiction。分析細緻到一個詞,不讀英文版可能會理解睏難。提到福樓拜時,說法語的優勢,可惜不懂法語。讀後覺得要讀的書(特別是精讀)太多瞭!
評分★★★★★ 真的好好。當storytelling在方方麵麵,say,決定著無間道和反無間道的結果,在universality as conspiracy的現實中,文學的重要性就愈發突顯。James Wood的論述絕不是最嚴密的,但在敘事上這反而其實不重要,因為他的洞悉之穿透力是驚人的,它可以把思考釘住,你為之絆腳,甚至於被打動,它那麼接近真相,就好像真的有像這顆鐵釘一般確切存在的真相似的。
評分作者用輕快的筆調解釋小說的元素,引用的例子有經典也有現代,可算是延伸瞭Henry James 的the art of fiction。分析細緻到一個詞,不讀英文版可能會理解睏難。提到福樓拜時,說法語的優勢,可惜不懂法語。讀後覺得要讀的書(特別是精讀)太多瞭!
評分拿起來就放不下來。短小,精緻,觀察力驚人。文風親切平易不學院派賣弄,偶爾一點小幽默。最美妙的是內容,從free indirect style切入,到福樓拜的並置細節和浪蕩兒的‘i am a camera’,到 gratuitous detail所營造齣的生活感,到用transparencies/opacities來革新福斯特的扁形人物/圓形人物,到意識流的發展,人物由穩定到變化;最隔的部分是語言一節,因為不是英文母語所以很多語言的細微美妙之處無法體會,即使人傢指齣來瞭並解釋瞭好像也無法完全理解(嘆氣,但放到中文小說中則太多切身經驗)最後例行批判genre和商業現實主義,立場還是傳統的嚴肅現實主義小說最棒。但重審美輕意識形態批評和抓細節的方法太喜歡。
評分被滋養到瞭。。。。。。
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How Fiction Works pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024