Sunday, February 24, 2019

All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth

All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth


翻译《海伦的苍鹰》时,一直对该书应该归在哪一类存在怀疑。自传、传记、回忆录、文学批评、自然写作?

这本书也是。基本的套路就是将自己生活中的一段经历和某一部文学作品紧密结合在一起,用自己的经历指导对文学作品的诠释,同时用精读该文学作品的经历来指导对自身经历的总结,从而形成一种独特的文学传记体裁。

而且这类作品的进一步分类包含年轻女性对父亲的回忆。

这本书的开头总结得到位:

Perhaps there is one book for every life.

One book with the power to reflect and illuminate that life; one book that will forever inform how we navigate the little strip of time we are given, while also helping us to clarify and catch hold of its most vital moments. For me, that book is To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s novel about her parents, Julia and Leslie Stephen, who died when Virginia was thirteen and twenty-two, respectively.

From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett


这部书估计也读不完。但老头文字好读,非常口语化。他是Doug的朋友。


Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk


三部曲,Outline (2014) ;Transit (2017) 和Kudos (2018)。

都是别人在倾诉。比较独特的写作手法。

Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li


李翊云的新小说。

基本是看着她逐渐成熟。

这本不会轻松。突然失去儿子。母亲要继续和儿子对话。一个人自说自话,只能算倾诉。

看吧,不准备读完。

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

这是Sally Rooney的第一部小说。因为喜欢她的第二部《正常人》(见前),顺势把第一部也借来读了。

这部讲偷情。和第二部可以连读。还是那样充满现代年轻人的智慧,幽默,情节紧凑,充满张力。

Last Boat Out of Shanghai by Helen Zia


四家上海人逃离中国大陆的故事。基本是口述历史的整理。

许多情节和我们家的经历有着千丝万缕的联系,读着亲切。

作者是这四家人中一位的后代。