Name: Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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Rating: 8.9 (227 reviews)
Author: Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9780241978665

书籍介绍

Written in the grip of suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is an uplifting account of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li interweaves personal experiences of her childhood in China and her adulthood forging a new life in America with meditations on the many writers she admires - from William Trevor to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf to Ivan Turgenev. And with quiet integrity, she confirms the fundamental questions that define an author - why write? And why live?

Yiyun Li is the author of two novels, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Golden Boy, Emerald Girl. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her storie...

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核心看点

作者以书信体交织童年与成年经历，探讨写作与生存意义
直面重度抑郁与丧子之痛，展现极度细腻且脆弱的内心世界
穿插对多位文学大师的解读，反思时间、记忆与人际疏离

适合谁读

对文学创作过程、作家心理状态感兴趣的深度阅读者
正在经历情绪低谷，渴望在文字中寻找共鸣与慰藉的人
喜欢内省式散文，能接受缓慢、晦涩且沉重叙事风格的读者

读前提醒

本书情感浓度极高，阅读体验可能较为压抑，请量力而行
建议结合作者生平背景阅读，以理解其文字背后的创伤语境
非母语写作的英语极具张力，可关注其修辞与句式带来的独特美感

读者共识

文字华丽精准却充满寒意，深刻剖析自我但也显得过于拧巴
部分读者认为作者沉溺于痛苦，叙事过于自我中心且令人疲惫
尽管阅读过程艰难，但其真诚与对生命的追问仍具震撼力

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录

"There is this emptiness in me. All the things in the world are not enough to drown out the voice of this emptiness that says: you are nothing. This emptiness does not claim the past because it is always here. It does not have to claim the future as it blocks out the future. It is either a dictator o"
""The train stopped. When a train stops in the open country between two stations it is impossible not to put one's head out of the window and see what's up," Mansfield wrote at the end of her life. This is the inevitability of life. The train, for reasons unknown to us, always stops between a past an"
"one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that wa"
"To be among people--does that require one to be at home with others, to be at peace with oneself? But an agitated mind does not know any road to peace except the one away from home, which time and again exposes one to that lifelong phobia of attachment, just as to write betrays one's instinct to cur"
"I had only wanted to stay invisible, but there as elsewhere invisibility is a luxury."
"I have had a troublesome relationship with time. The past I cannot trust because it could be tainted by my memory. The future is hypothetical and should be treated with caution. The present ---what is the present but a constant test: in this muddled in-between one struggles to understand what about "
"Reticence is a natural state. It is not hiding. People don't show themselves equally and easily to all. Reticence doesn't make one feel lonely as hiding does, yet it distances and invalidates others."
"In every thought and feeling about life, time claims a space. When we speak of indecision, we are unwilling to let go of a present. When we speak of moving on ---what a triumphant phrase--we are cutting off the past. And if one seeks kindness from time, it slips away tauntingly, or worse, with indif"

作者简介

Yiyun Li is the author of two novels, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Golden Boy, Emerald Girl. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two sons.

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life......3

Amongst People......22

Memory Is a Melodrama from Which No One is Exempt......51

Two Lives......82

Amongst Characters......106

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谢谢她写了出来

不忍卒读的一本书。李翊云写到她读到Katherine Mansfield的 "Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life" 这句话就哭了。正是两个生命从星辰到大海般不可泯灭的距离，才让我们提起笔，把一个个刻入骨髓的过去，从一个生命写给另一个生命。生命中有一种虚空，世间一切事物的存在都不足以弥补这一虚空，都无法掩盖这虚空发出的蚀骨噬心的声响：You are nothing. 于是会沉默，会逃避，会徒劳挣扎，会无力反抗，他人与自我都没有意义，One has to have a solid self to be selfish.

致郁又治愈，看的时候眼泪多次自然地留下来。每个句子都是经过反复思考与打磨的，词和语法不难，但要读几遍才能读懂。生活不是这样呀，生活就是这样呀。

One has to have a solid self to be selfish.

Don’t lose that smile of yours.

08；A deeper explaination of why her life is like what it is now. When her youngest son held her hand, she could feel but cannot understand, it just hits me that how life treats her cruelly before and the influence of that still torture her at that loveable moment.‘To lose the journal was to lose continuity from one day to the next.' What a truth.

几欲落泪，不忍卒读

选读了几篇

非常深的自我剖析，也是非常个人的表达方式。除了通过语言理解，我觉得还有背后灵魂的同频才能真正读懂。几年前的我可能会更懂吧。作者抑郁入院两次，两个儿子先后自杀。超敏的感知，细腻深刻丰富，有时又是不可承受之重。

To be among people--does that require one to be at home with others, to be at peace with oneself? But an agitated mind does not know any road to peace except the one away from home, which time and again exposes one to that lifelong phobia of attachment, just as to write betrays one's instinct to curl up and hide.

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