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George Saunders 出版社: Random House 副标题: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life 出版年: 2021-1-12 页数: 432 定价: USD 28.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781984856029
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 ...
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.
作者简介
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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 teache...
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.
A story is a linear-temporal phenom non. It proceeds, and charms us (or doesn’t), a line at a time. We have to keep being pulled into a story in order for it to do anything to us. (查看原文)
A story (any story, every story) makes its meaning at speed, a small structural pulse at a time. We read a bit of text and a set of expectations arises. (查看原文)
这大概是我今年最喜欢的一本书了。却拖了很久才断断续续作为睡前读物读完它，因为这本书连每个夜晚的睡前时光都变得温柔了。书中的绝大部分小说原作我之前都没有读过，不得不心悦诚服的承认，作者的解读让我完全打开了新世界的大门，让我用自己从来没想过的视角去看待每一个故事，怀着真挚的悲悯和爱惜去试图理解接纳故事里的人物，也去体会作者，他的爱和智慧以及不完美，甚至因此对于生活，我们身边时刻发生的种种荒谬混乱，不幸...这大概是我今年最喜欢的一本书了。却拖了很久才断断续续作为睡前读物读完它，因为这本书连每个夜晚的睡前时光都变得温柔了。书中的绝大部分小说原作我之前都没有读过，不得不心悦诚服的承认，作者的解读让我完全打开了新世界的大门，让我用自己从来没想过的视角去看待每一个故事，怀着真挚的悲悯和爱惜去试图理解接纳故事里的人物，也去体会作者，他的爱和智慧以及不完美，甚至因此对于生活，我们身边时刻发生的种种荒谬混乱，不幸不堪都有了一种重新审视的角度，有了那个停下来看一看想一想的理由。我想这本书带给我的感受真的就像作者接受采访的一个podcast title说的那样How to be Kind in a Cruel World，也让我想起木心的那句诗，“不知原谅什么，诚觉世事尽可原谅”。(展开)
24.12.31 I thank you, from the heart, for the investment of time and energy that has brought you this far, and hopes, sincerely, that something in here will benefit you. Definitely!
换行实在太多一不小心给读完了，非常通俗但还是谢谢作者——主要是thanks for the Chekhov——如果“发现陀思妥耶夫斯基就像发现大海”那么发现契诃夫就像发现一个蒙福的小池塘。与托尔斯泰不同（这本让我看穿了托尔斯泰很多），契诃夫的短篇里是没有圣徒的，哪怕一个也没有，但是仍闪现出暧昧的神圣之物。在小学语文教材里选《变色龙》的那个编者害我不浅，而Saunders，和在小学教材里选《凡卡》的...换行实在太多一不小心给读完了，非常通俗但还是谢谢作者——主要是thanks for the Chekhov——如果“发现陀思妥耶夫斯基就像发现大海”那么发现契诃夫就像发现一个蒙福的小池塘。与托尔斯泰不同（这本让我看穿了托尔斯泰很多），契诃夫的短篇里是没有圣徒的，哪怕一个也没有，但是仍闪现出暧昧的神圣之物。在小学语文教材里选《变色龙》的那个编者害我不浅，而Saunders，和在小学教材里选《凡卡》的那个编者，帮了我太多(展开)
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4 有用 Jacintta H 2021-03-18 07:42:50
虽然是写给作家们的，但作为读者也很受用
4 有用 慢懒 2021-03-28 10:38:23
太好看了！虽然是写作指南，但其实很适合当作“普通读者如何读书之手把手教程”。作者解析时的口吻足够平易近人，而且字里行间可以感受到他对这些故事的真心喜欢。P.S. 契诃夫太好了！
0 有用 hliu13 2022-03-07 02:24:04
a fascinating transformative experience from being a reader to being a writer.
6 有用 栞 2021-03-06 06:09:53
特别好！虽然是写作课的讲义，但作为读者可以学习到如何阅读短篇小说。讲的也非常生动。感觉书名应该叫做：how to read short stories like a writer. 我很喜欢之后作者的态度，他不是高高在上地教导你什么，而是邀请你和他一起阅读，并且启发读者。非常好看！
1 有用 知未 2021-11-23 13:42:34
这大概是我今年最喜欢的一本书了。却拖了很久才断断续续作为睡前读物读完它，因为这本书连每个夜晚的睡前时光都变得温柔了。书中的绝大部分小说原作我之前都没有读过，不得不心悦诚服的承认，作者的解读让我完全打开了新世界的大门，让我用自己从来没想过的视角去看待每一个故事，怀着真挚的悲悯和爱惜去试图理解接纳故事里的人物，也去体会作者，他的爱和智慧以及不完美，甚至因此对于生活，我们身边时刻发生的种种荒谬混乱，不幸... 这大概是我今年最喜欢的一本书了。却拖了很久才断断续续作为睡前读物读完它，因为这本书连每个夜晚的睡前时光都变得温柔了。书中的绝大部分小说原作我之前都没有读过，不得不心悦诚服的承认，作者的解读让我完全打开了新世界的大门，让我用自己从来没想过的视角去看待每一个故事，怀着真挚的悲悯和爱惜去试图理解接纳故事里的人物，也去体会作者，他的爱和智慧以及不完美，甚至因此对于生活，我们身边时刻发生的种种荒谬混乱，不幸不堪都有了一种重新审视的角度，有了那个停下来看一看想一想的理由。我想这本书带给我的感受真的就像作者接受采访的一个podcast title说的那样How to be Kind in a Cruel World，也让我想起木心的那句诗，“不知原谅什么，诚觉世事尽可原谅”。 (展开)
0 有用 Tami 2025-01-10 16:12:14 江苏
24.12.31 I thank you, from the heart, for the investment of time and energy that has brought you this far, and hopes, sincerely, that something in here will benefit you. Definitely!
0 有用 世吹卷卷 2024-12-21 21:12:06 云南
会看一二三四五遍。
0 有用 Pluto&Piaget 2024-12-19 08:09:44 美国
换行实在太多一不小心给读完了，非常通俗但还是谢谢作者——主要是thanks for the Chekhov——如果“发现陀思妥耶夫斯基就像发现大海”那么发现契诃夫就像发现一个蒙福的小池塘。与托尔斯泰不同（这本让我看穿了托尔斯泰很多），契诃夫的短篇里是没有圣徒的，哪怕一个也没有，但是仍闪现出暧昧的神圣之物。在小学语文教材里选《变色龙》的那个编者害我不浅，而Saunders，和在小学教材里选《凡卡》的... 换行实在太多一不小心给读完了，非常通俗但还是谢谢作者——主要是thanks for the Chekhov——如果“发现陀思妥耶夫斯基就像发现大海”那么发现契诃夫就像发现一个蒙福的小池塘。与托尔斯泰不同（这本让我看穿了托尔斯泰很多），契诃夫的短篇里是没有圣徒的，哪怕一个也没有，但是仍闪现出暧昧的神圣之物。在小学语文教材里选《变色龙》的那个编者害我不浅，而Saunders，和在小学教材里选《凡卡》的那个编者，帮了我太多 (展开)
0 有用 神秘数字53 2023-12-10 14:05:02 上海
作为一本美国教材，和它的诸多同类一样把你当傻子般耐心地重复重复重复
0 有用 未时 2023-11-24 12:01:51 美国
好久不用豆瓣 专程来标一把：这本书值得，真的值得！