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The White Album - Joan Didion

The White Album

Joan Didion

出版社

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

出版时间

1990-10-01

ISBN

9780374522216

评分

★★★★★

标签

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书籍介绍
这并非一本供人轻松消化的读物，而是一场关于'我们如何给自己讲故事'的锋利解剖。Didion在书中反复演示：当现实过于破碎矛盾，人们便强行套上叙事框架，从混乱里提炼秩序，从悲剧中榨取智慧——哪怕这种秩序只是自我安慰的幻觉。读者最揪心的，正是她洞察了这套机制，自己却屡屡失守：能冷静拆解黑豹党的'枪杆子逻辑'，却在私人生活的琐碎混乱前被头痛击垮；能写尽时代的毛骨悚然，笔下的随笔却常被诟为'故弄玄虚的浅尝辄止'。它适合那些愿意承认'我读不懂'的人：这里没有共鸣的捷径，只有在场视角带来的强烈异化感，逼你直面一个悬而未决的问题——我们究竟要往何处去。
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核心看点
  • 冷峻剖析六十年代美国社会的精神崩溃与混乱
  • 以碎片化叙事捕捉时代焦虑，文笔犀利独特
  • 探讨人们如何通过讲述故事来构建生活秩序
读者共识
  • 首篇《白色专辑》惊艳，后续篇章评价两极分化
  • 作者视角冷静客观，被誉为最犀利的时代观察者
  • 文风自我中心且晦涩，部分读者觉得故弄玄虚
精彩摘录
  • "On my way to one of those studios in Boston I have seen the magnolias bursting white down Marlborough Street. On my way to another in Dallas I had watched the highway lights blazing and dimming pink against the big dawn sky. Outside one studio in Houston the afternoon heat was sinking into the deep "
  • "It never comes when I am in real trouble. Tell me that my house is burned down, my husband has left me, that there is gunfighting in the streets and panic in the banks, and I will not respond by getting a headache. It comes instead when I am fighting not an open but a guerrilla war with my own life,"
  • "I have always wanted a swimming pool, and never had one. When it became generally known a year or so ago that California was suffering severe drought, many people in water-rich parts of the country seemed obscurely gratified, and made frequent reference to Californians having to brick up their swimm"
  • "In the big house on Franklin Avenue many people seemed to come and go without relation to what I did. I knew where the sheets and towels were kept but I did not always know who was sleeping in every bed. I had the keys but not the key. ..."
  • "... I kept wishing that he would talk about himself, hoping to break through the wall of rhetoric, but he seemed to be one of those autodidact for whom all things specific and personal present themselves as mine fields to be avoided even at the cost of coherence, for whom safety lies in generalizati"
  • "As it happened I had always appreciated the logic of the Panther position, based as it was on the proposition that political power began at the end of the barrel of the gun (exactly what fun had even been specified, in an early memorandum from Huey P. Newton: "Army .45; carbine; 12-gaude- Magnum sho"
  • "... For a long time I kept a copy of this testimony pinned to my office wall, on the theory that it illustrated a collision of cultures, a classic instance of an historical outsider confronting the established order at its most petty and impenetrable level. This theory was shattered when I learned t"
  • "He had paused. He was a nice-looking boy, and fired with his task. I considered the tender melancholy of life in San Mateo, which is one of the richest counties per capita in the United States of America, and I considered whether or not the Wichita lineman and the petals on the wet black bough repre"
用户评论
A friend told me the reason his ex-girlfriend broke up with him was this:" Hey man, you are great. But I'm still young and would like to sleep with a bunch of other guys." That's her understanding of feminism and her belief in realizing her value. People can really go to one extreme to another and miss the whole point of being a human being.
第一篇是真的好，后面的就是隔靴搔痒at best。
Borrowed from Berlynn who got it from Harvard book store and read it in the early summer days in Boston
White Album一篇好得惊世骇俗，一直被模仿，却没人学得来，只可惜作者自己也学不来，集子里其他的文章都很一般（骂Doris Lessing的那篇简直莫名其妙）。作者眼中的自己，大概是60年代的王尔德。
Smart, chatty, self absorbed cat
后面再说
Joan Didion实在是太会写了。。。。。文字本身让人太太太着迷了
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