传记
Henry David Thoreau 豆瓣
作者: Laura Dassow Walls University Of Chicago Press 2017 - 7
“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854.
But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member of the vibrant intellectual circle centered on his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was also an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist, and more. Many books have taken up various aspects of Thoreau’s character and achievements, but, as Laura Dassow Walls writes, “Thoreau has never been captured between covers; he was too quixotic, mischievous, many-sided.” Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity.
Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and “America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.” By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated?
Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him.
“The Thoreau I sought was not in any book, so I wrote this one,” says Walls. The result is a Thoreau unlike any seen since he walked the streets of Concord, a Thoreau for our time and all time.
凯南日记 豆瓣
The Kennan Diaries
作者: [美] 乔治·凯南 / [美] 弗兰克·科斯蒂廖拉(编) 译者: 曹明玉 中信出版社 2016 - 11
他是20世纪知名外交思想家,是美国深受关注的战略家
他塑造了冷战时代,又不遗余力要打破美苏僵局
1953年7月一个炎热的下午,刚刚退休的凯南迈下美国国务院大楼的台阶。在此之前,他的职业生涯跌宕起伏:早年间前往东欧,二战时坚守柏林,随后又辗转苏联。1946年,凯南发出著名 的“长电报”,深入分析苏联的内部社会和对外政策。一年后,他在《外交》杂志上发文,提出“遏制政策”,该政策随即成为冷战时期美国政府的主要战略。1952年,出任驻苏大使。之后的五十年里,他不遗余力要缓和冷战僵局,成为20世纪最知名的外交思想家,撰写了20本著作,两次荣获普利策奖,两次成为国家图书奖的获奖者。
而在这些年间,凯南一直把他对政治、外交和生活的体悟记在日记里。本书从凯南8800多页日记中精选内容,真实再现了众多重大事件的幕后故事。作为美国最受关注的外交官和外交政策战略家,作为一个极具天赋的作者、一个困惑于婚姻和爱情的丈夫,一个被俄罗斯的魅力征服却又为苏联感到恐惧的外交官,凯南在日记中展现了深刻的政治、道德见解和哲学反思,他倾注了自己全部的热情和智识,去质问美国外交政策中那些不可侵犯的想当然的观念,他追问国家战略和人生的答案,学习与艰难的现实妥协,展现了深刻的政治、道德见解和哲学反思。
无法直面的人生 豆瓣
7.2 (12 个评分) 作者: 王晓明 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2021 - 1
一部影响深远的鲁迅思想传记,代表了20世纪八九十年代知识界努力冲破启蒙话语,力图回到“鲁迅本身”,从个体生存的心理结构和思想困境的角度去重新解读鲁迅的重要尝试。
作者以鲁迅的人生历程和思想发展为经纬,以其三次努力抵抗自己的“鬼气”和“绝望”为主轴,把鲁迅思想气质中的怀疑、矛盾、阴郁乃至黑暗刻画得深入骨髓,无论是作者还是读者,都会在情感和心理的共鸣中,感受到作为一个人的鲁迅那巨大的精神痛苦和思想悲剧。
作者曾解释如此理解鲁迅的原因,是“想要打破那一味将鲁迅往云端里抬的风气,想要表达对鲁迅的多样的情感,不仅仅是敬仰,是热爱,还有理解,有共鸣,甚至有同情,有悲哀;我更想要向读者显示生活的复杂和艰难,不仅仅是鲁迅,也是我们自己,不仅仅是过去,也是现在和将来”。
史蒂夫·乔布斯传 豆瓣 Goodreads 谷歌图书
Steve Jobs: A Biography
8.5 (219 个评分) 作者: [美国] 沃尔特·艾萨克森 译者: 管延圻 / 魏群 中信出版社 2011 - 10
这本乔布斯唯一授权的官方传记,在2011年上半年由美国出版商西蒙舒斯特对外发布出版消息以来,备受全球媒体和业界瞩目,这本书的全球出版日期最终确定为2011年11月21日,简体中文版也将同步上市。
两年多的时间,与乔布斯40多次的面对面倾谈,以及与乔布斯一百多个家庭成员、 朋友、竞争对手、同事的不受限的采访,造就了这本独家传记。
尽管乔布斯给予本书的采访和创作全面的配合,但他对内容从不干涉,也不要求出版前阅读全文的权利。对于任何资源和关联的人,他都不设限,甚至鼓励他所熟知的人袒露出自己的心声。
“我已经做了很多并不值得自豪的事情,比如23岁时就让我的女友怀了孕,以及我对这件事的处理方式”,他说, “对我而言,没有什么不可以对外袒露的。”
谈及和他共过事的人以及竞争对手,他直言不讳,甚至尖酸刻薄。他的激情、精力、欲望、完美主义、艺术修养、残暴还有对掌控权的迷恋塑造出的商业哲学一览无余。
同样,他的朋友、敌人,还有同事得以为我们提供了一个前所未有的毫无掩饰的视角。
他是一位极具创造力的企业家,他有如过山车般精彩的人生和犀利激越的性格,充满追求完美和誓不罢休的激情,他创造出个人电脑、动画电影、音乐、手机、平板电脑以及数字出版等6大产业的颠覆性变革。
乔布斯的个性经常让周围的人愤怒和绝望,但其所创造出的产品也与这种个性息息相关,全然不可分割的,正如苹果的硬件和软件一样。
他的故事既具有启发意义,又有警示意义,充满了关于创新、个性、领导力以及价值观的教益。
Becoming 豆瓣
8.2 (24 个评分) 作者: Michelle Obama Crown 2018 - 11
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
于尔根·哈贝马斯:知识分子与公共生活 豆瓣
Jürgen Habermas: Eine Biographie
8.3 (6 个评分) 作者: [德]斯蒂芬·穆勒-多姆(Stefan Müller-Doohm) 译者: 刘风 索·恩 ∣社会科学文献出版社 2019 - 7
【内容简介】
斯蒂芬•穆勒-多姆经过多年深入调研,亲自采访了哈贝马斯,以及与其生活经历密切相关的各种人物,最终为读者奉上了一部传记大作。它是首部全面记录这位当代最富名望的知识分子生平的作品。以相关历史事件为背景,本书既记述和探讨了哲学反思与知识分子介入的相互作用,亦探索并展现了个人生活史与作品史之间的关系。本书清晰地勾勒出一位举世无双的思想家的画像:他不仅创立了交往行为理论,取得了令人瞩目的哲学成就,而且每当他察觉社会发展滞后,不能为保证自由平等的生活条件提供可能性时,会立刻成为毫不妥协的批判者。
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【媒体评论】
这本书真是太有趣了。——《卫报》
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《哈贝马斯传》是一位成就非凡、仍然健在的知识分子的传记,他的读者远远超出了学术界。斯蒂芬•穆勒-多姆是一位讲故事高手,会让你情不自禁、手不释卷地一口气读完本书。没有人比他更了解传记写作的艺术了。——《华盛顿图书评论》
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很少人会对哈贝马斯的评判提出异议——不论是他的哲学思想,还是他作为公共知识分子的角色。哈贝马斯在公共领域所发挥的影响力远远大于当下时代其他任何一位思想家。斯蒂芬•穆勒-多姆的这部传记作品以极大的严谨和对主人公的支持佐证了上述结论。——《国家报》
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海德格尔精简的人生总结,“一个人出生、工作,然后死去”,可能适合放在亚里士多德身上,但绝对不能用来形容这位可能是当下时代的“希腊大学问家”的哲学家——于尔根•哈贝马斯。不只是因为他仍然健在,仍精力充沛地书写新作,还因为他对哲学、社会学、政治理论、文化批判主义的巨大贡献,需要在他作为一位杰出的公共知识分子的背景下,加以理解和体会。与其另一部作品《阿多诺传》一样,斯蒂芬•穆勒-多姆再次证明了他在重要思想家丰富而杂乱的生活和工作经历中抽丝剥茧、去芜存菁的能力。——马丁•杰(Martin Jay),加州大学伯克利分校
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哈贝马斯之前是,现在也依然是一位典范的知识分子……他是一个柏林人,对旧世界的意义有着清醒的认识,对新世界的前景又充满了希望。这本书是关于这一挑战、对哈贝马斯所做出的承诺的典范之作。——《澳大利亚人报》
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公共知识分子是一个被危及的物种——幸好还有于尔根•哈贝马斯。——《南德意志报》
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那些刻上了哈贝马斯烙印的大辩论、历史学家之争、关于科索沃战争及欧洲政策的争论,又浮现在读者眼前。——亚历山大•卡姆曼,德国《时代周报》,2014年6月12日
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穆勒-多姆的这部著作,以全面详实的资料为读者呈现了目前在施塔恩贝格生活的这位社会哲学家的经历和作品。它拒绝任何猎奇视角,而是稳稳地按时间线铺陈出他的各个生活阶段和作品史。——马丁•鲍尔,《南德意志报》
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穆勒-多姆抵达了“流淌的哲学思想熔岩”深处,向人们展示了话语共同体如何在公共空间中形成,以及个体如何成为知识分子运动的熔炉和投射面。——迪特•卡尔特瓦塞,《广闻报》,波恩,2014年6月14日
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穆勒-多姆搜集汇总了大量资料……这本书无疑将会是一本具有权威性的哈贝马斯传记。
——安德里亚•吕迪西,《星期五》杂志,2014年6月19日
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穆勒-多姆……的《哈贝马斯传》是一部大作。穆勒-多姆细致入微地讲述了一位学者一波三折的学术生涯,分析了影响哈贝马斯人生道路的政治思想对抗,讲述了被哈贝马斯所影响的形形色色的争论。这一切令德国的当代史栩栩如生地跃然眼前。——斯蒂芬•吕德曼,《新奥斯纳布吕克报》,2014年6月18日
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……内容扎实,细节丰富……——乌维•余斯图斯•温泽尔,《新苏黎世报》,2014年6月24日
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如果说过去几十年德国有一位拿得出手的知识分子,而且他本人并不在意这种地位,那么这个人就是,正如我们从这本认真严谨的传记中所了解的, 于尔根•哈贝马斯。——《达姆施塔特回声报》, 2014年6月18日
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斯蒂芬•穆勒-多姆这部篇幅宏大的传记作品,引用了很多报章、论文、演讲和书籍中的文字,这表明,社会争论可达到多么高的智识水准。——安德里亚•吕迪西,奥地利广播公司,2014年6月20日
前朝梦忆 豆瓣
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
7.5 (40 个评分) 作者: [美国] 史景迁 译者: 温洽溢 广西师范大学出版社 2010 - 9
张岱是公认的明代散文大家,其传世名著《陶庵梦忆》、《西湖梦寻》等堪称晚明小品文的代表。他出身仕宦家庭,早年衣食无忧,性喜游山玩水,深谙园林布置之法。但四十九岁那年,清兵入关,张岱的人生遭逢重大转折。他带着幸存的家人逸隐于绍兴龙山,务农为生,余生力修明史,八十八岁方成,是为《石匮书》,书成后不久亡故。
个人历史与家国历史相互映照、无法切割。面对挡不住的历史洪流,还归龙山是张岱的一个选择,能自主画下的一条人生界线。不论是怀志一生纂修的《石匮书》,还是《陶庵梦忆》里一幅幅简约、多情善感的前朝旧事,镶框着家族轶事与大时代的层层跌宕与悲喜交错──张岱一生的浮华与苍凉,在梦与忆的交错摆荡之间,隐隐浮现。
史景迁认为张岱不仅是史家,也是热爱历史的文人。他书写张岱的一生、内心转折及过往追忆的同时,更深层探讨张岱身为知识分子,是如何借由回忆以及修史确立自身的存在价值。在得与失之间,唯有捕捉消逝的回忆,以书写对抗遗忘,才能坦然面对、甚或抵抗世事的变迁与生命的无常;这一点,无疑反映了历史与书写的本质与关系。
家園何處是 豆瓣 谷歌图书
8.5 (8 个评分) 作者: 王賡武 译者: 林纹沛 香港中文大學出版社 2020 - 9
海外华人史学大家王赓武在年近九旬之际写下自己「长年半游牧生涯」的故事。他的人生以殖民时代的东南亚为起点,历经殖民、战争、动乱、革命,大半生在三大洲间迁徙,构成二十世纪的历史洪流之中一部丰富而独特的流浪史。
回忆录共两卷。上卷《家园何处是》回望王赓武充满不确定性和转折的少年经历,这段岁月对他影响至深,成为他治学和人生的底色。
王赓武1930 年在南洋出生,自小接受古典中文教育和正统英文教育。因日军入侵东南亚,他不得不辍学,数年间在街头游荡,以少年人本真的好奇心学会广东话、马来语、客家话、闽南语,并对殖民地错综复杂的「华人性」有了最初的领会。凭藉奇迹般的机缘,他在日本战败前夕重拾学业、考入国立中央大学,却亲身见证父母谆谆教导的那个故园中国终归于幻灭。然而,青年王赓武对「家园何处是」的困惑与不安在此际渐渐抚平。站在儿时经历为他塑造的「多重世界」交汇处,他「开始感到没有东西能挡在我认识万物的道路上」。
下卷《心安即是家》由王赓武与太太林娉婷合著,继续述说他们在情感和知性上的探索旅程。
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「王赓武是一位在马来西亚、中国、英国、澳洲和新加坡广受赞誉的伟大的中国历史学家。本书是他的自传,讲述了他的童年和在中国内外辗转求学的生涯,动人、亲切而又谦逊。」
—傅高义(Ezra Vogel,哈佛大学Henry Ford II社会科学荣休讲座教授)
「作为中国研究和东南亚华人研究的老前辈,王赓武以最亲切的方式书写了他在英属马来亚和中国的早年回忆。这种生命的起点有可能让他过漂泊不定的混乱生活,但他却航向了更恢宏的世界。」
—杜赞奇(Prasenjit Duara,杜克大学Oscar Tang讲座教授)
This is Going to Hurt 豆瓣
9.0 (34 个评分) 作者: Adam Kay Picador 2017 - 9
Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line (with a foreword attempting to explain the National Health Service to a non-UK audience). Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know—and more than a few things you didn't—about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
Revolution on My Mind 豆瓣
作者: Jochen Hellbeck Harvard University Press 2006 - 5
"Revolution on My Mind" is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervour and state terror. Writing a diary, like other creative expression, seems nearly impossible amid the fear and distrust of totalitarian rule; but as Jochen Hellbeck shows, diary-keeping was widespread, as individuals struggled to adjust to Stalin's regime. Rather than protect themselves against totalitarianism, many men and women bent their will to its demands, by striving to merge their individual identities with the collective and by battling vestiges of the old self within. We see how Stalin's subjects, from artists to intellectuals and from students to housewives, absorbed directives while endeavouring to fulfil the mandate of the Soviet revolution - re-creation of the self as a builder of the socialist society. Thanks to a newly discovered trove of diaries, we are brought face to face with individual life stories - gripping and unforgettably poignant. The diarists' efforts defy our liberal imaginations and our ideals of autonomy and private fulfilment. These Soviet citizens dreamed differently. They coveted a morally and aesthetically superior form of life, and were eager to inscribe themselves into the unfolding revolution. "Revolution on My Mind" is a brilliant exploration of the forging of the revolutionary self, a study without precedent that speaks to the evolution of the individual in mass movements of our own time.
巨流河 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.4 (5 个评分) 作者: 齐邦媛 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2016 - 2
作者齐邦媛的父亲齐世英──民国初年的留德热血青年,九一八事变前的东北维新派,毕生憾恨围绕着巨流河功败垂成的一战,渡不过的巨流像现实中的严寒,外交和革新思想皆困冻于此,从此开始了东北终至波及整个中国的近代苦难。作者的一生,正是整个二十世纪颠沛流离的缩影。
作者以逾八十高龄历时四年写作完成《巨流河》,其以缜密通透的笔力,从长城外的'巨流河'开始,到台湾南端恒春的“哑口海”结束。记述了纵贯百年、横跨两岸的大时代的变迁。
山中最后一季 豆瓣
The Last Season
8.0 (15 个评分) 作者: [美] 埃里克·布雷姆 译者: 赖盈满 / 何雨珈 上海社会科学院出版社 2016 - 8
一个人与他挚爱的山野如何彼此交付?“山就是我的生命。没有山,我什么也不是。”
五十四岁的蓝迪·摩根森是巨杉和国王峡谷国家公园的传奇巡山员。他救助过许多身陷困境的登山者,也指引过许多游客领略山野 之美,是“行走在园区步道上最和善的灵魂”。
一九九六年七月二十一日,蓝迪在巡逻途中失踪。此后,园方出动一百名人力、五架 直升机、八组搜救犬,展开前所未有的搜救行动,却一无所获。蓝迪在优胜美地的山谷中出生长大,在巨杉和国王峡谷做过二十八年夏季山野巡山员、十多年冬季越野巡山员。山上有什么风吹草动,他立刻就会知晓。这让他的失踪愈加成谜。搜救结束五年后,国家公园的偏僻角落浮现出蛛丝马迹……
本书作者花费八年时间,遍访蓝迪的亲人至交,阅读他留下的文字书籍,为我们还原出一个山野之子的人生传奇。
我的哈佛岁月 豆瓣
作者: 李欧梵 浙江大学出版社 2016 - 9
60年代留学哈佛的中国学生是怎样修炼成“精”的?李欧梵教授在本书中讲述的种种古怪行径显示了一个貌似与哈佛大学格格不入却到处占便宜的“自由灵魂”,教你如何在顶级学府中既离经叛道,又充分利用各种校园资源。即使在今日的大学,对今日的学子来说,数十年前老哈佛人的求学宝典依然管用,甚至可能比一些所谓的诀窍更有效。
说吧,记忆 豆瓣
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
8.7 (28 个评分) 作者: [美国] 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫 译者: 王家湘 上海译文出版社 2009 - 4
一组相互间有系统联系的个人回忆文集,时间跨越三十七个年头(从1903年8月到1940年5月),是纳博科夫本人最重要和最著名的作品之一,也是古往今来以时间和记忆为主题的作品中,为数不多的非常奇特而优秀的一本。它的语言带着一种坦率的清澈和解剖学一般的精确——以一位鳞翅目昆虫学家透过高倍放大镜观察蝴蝶翅翼上美妙的花纹,并将之描绘下来的那种精确,给读者带来不一般的阅读感受。记忆和对往昔的回顾往往主宰着纳博科夫的小说,故而这本自传正是解读他的小说的绝好密码,因为回忆本身即是幻想和现实之间的某种隐蔽的桥梁,作家在其中发挥了自己独特的想象力。纳博科夫忠实读者的必读书,为深入解读《洛丽塔》、《微暗的火》、《防守》和《玛丽》等纳博科夫重要小说提供了第一手资料。
碎片 豆瓣
La frantumaglia
8.9 (101 个评分) 作者: [意] 埃莱娜·费兰特 译者: 陈英 人民文学出版社 2020 - 10
《碎片》(2016)是意大利作家埃莱娜·费兰特20 余年来的书信、访谈和散文集。作家在书中袒露了自己对写作风格和主题的探索历程,并回顾了自己经历的自我怀疑和突破,这些对话睿智地诠释了女性和家庭、神话和文化、城市和记忆,以及作家和读者的复杂关系。《碎片》既是深入费兰特的文学世界的指引,同时也是一份智性、鲜明而坚定的文学宣言。
全书按年代分为三辑:第一部分“碎片1991—2003”是作家和出版人的书信往来,重点讨论了《烦人的爱》中母亲的身体与写作的隐秘联系,也收录了她和导演就该小说的电影改编进行的细致商榷,还包含了作家从未被发表过的一些创作片段;第二部分“拼图2003—2007”收录了作家和导演就《被遗弃的日子》的电影改编进行的往来书信,以及她在前三本小说中探寻的不同方向;第三部分“书信2011—2016”收录了自“那不勒斯四部曲”出版以来作家接受的部分书面采访,读者可以窥见作家对这部小说的解读,以及对女性写作的历史和任务的犀利看法。
本书标题“碎片”(frantumaglia)来自作者的母亲常用的方言词汇,指遭遇矛盾和混乱的个体体会到的痛苦,但作家将其发展为自己的文学理念,并尝试在多年的创作中释放这个词汇背后的解放力量:作家要利用这种旋涡般的力量,直面失控的风险,抵达令自己、令读者陌生的真实经验。
Why Fish Don't Exist 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.5 (8 个评分) 作者: Lulu Miller Simon & Schuster 2020 - 4
A wondrous nonfiction debut from the cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia, Why Fish Don’t Exist tells the story of a 19th-century scientist possessed with bringing order to the natural world—a dark and astonishing tale that becomes an investigation into some of the biggest questions of our lives.
When Lulu Miller was starting out as a science reporter, she encountered a story that would stick with her for a decade. It was the strange tale of a scientist named David Starr Jordan, who set out to discover as many of the world’s fish as he could. Decade by decade, he built one of the most important specimen collections ever seen. Until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit—sending over a thousand of his fish, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered.
Miller knew what she would do if she were in Jordan’s shoes. She would give up, give in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish he recognized, and painstakingly began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that, he believed, would protect it against the chaos of the world.
In Why Fish Don’t Exist, Miller digs into the passing anecdote she once heard about David Starr Jordan to tell his whole story. What was it that kept him going that day in 1906? What became of him? And who does he prove to be, in the end: a role model for how to thrive in a chaotic world, or a cautionary tale? Filled with suspense, surprise, and even a questionable death, this enchanting book interweaves science, biography, and a dash of memoir to investigate the age-old question of how to go on when everything seems lost.
Permanent Record 豆瓣
8.9 (75 个评分) 作者: Edward Snowden Macmillan 2019 - 9
dward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
Between Them: Remembering My Parents 豆瓣
From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Ford’s parents—Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman—were rural Arkansans born at the turn of the twentieth century. Married in 1928, they lived “alone together” on the road, traveling throughout the South. Eventually they had one child, born late, in 1944.For Ford, the questions of what his parents dreamed of, how they loved each other and loved him become a striking portrait of American life in the mid-century. Between Them is his vivid image of where his life began and where his parents’ lives found their greatest satisfaction. Bringing his celebrated candor, wit, and intelligence to this most intimate and mysterious of landscapes—our parents’ lives—the award-winning storyteller and creator of the iconic Frank Bascombe delivers an unforgettable exploration of memory, intimacy, and love.
十年一觉电影梦 豆瓣
9.0 (89 个评分) 作者: 张靓蓓 中信出版社 2013 - 4
《十年一觉电影梦》是导演李安以第一人称口述的方式,讲述自己电影生涯第一个十年的追梦历程。这不仅是一个坚持“理想不死”的电影人的成长告白,更是一部探究“如何面对磨难和荣耀”的自我对话。
美国《时代》周刊说,李安荣膺“全球最具影响力的艺术与娱乐人士”,当之无愧。
张艺谋说,在东西方世界里游刃有余地行走的导演,恐怕华语影坛里只有李安一人。
陈文茜说,李安终于跃上顶峰,成了东西方电影世界没有人可以忽视的导演。
站在荣耀的巅峰,李安却通过《十年一觉电影梦》告诉所有人,他眼中的自己,是“一个没用的人”:
他,两次高考落榜,却意外步入舞台生涯;
他,在纽约名校高分毕业后,遭遇“毕业即失业”;
他,在美国煮饭、带孩子,做全职“家庭煮夫”,整整六年;
人往四十岁走,他才华满腹,却只能在剧组守夜看器材,扛沙袋,做苦力。他“不好意思再谈什么理想”,却不知理想已深埋心底。
李安活得很明白。他说,我真的只会当导演,做其他事都不灵光。
《十年一觉电影梦》,讲述一个导演的自我修养,一个男人的征服与温存。