书籍介绍
这是一部把'地下'读成时空之书的非虚构之作。作者循着石灰岩墓地、巴黎采石洞、深海探测实验室、森林菌根网络、战时万人坑与地下无星河等十余处场所,将地质深时、死亡埋葬与人类记忆编织成一张盘根错节的网。读者最难忘的,往往是它提供的'时间想象力':当个人困顿被放入几百年后或被其他生命重新发现的尺度里,当下的无力感竟被奇异地稀释。它也毫不避讳地触及人文的局限——暗物质、菌根互利、落水洞里的骸骨,都在提醒我们:城市是纵向的,地基之上还有更深的黑暗。不过也有人觉得它比作者以往的作品更散、更'神神化化',甚至因过于浓郁的情绪与堆叠的二手信息而却步。正因如此,它更适合愿意被'深时'重新校准感知的读者,而非寻求清晰知识框架的人。
作者简介
Robert Macfarlane is the author of prize-winning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people and place, including Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), The Wild Places (2007), The Old Ways (2012), Holloway (2013, with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words: A Spell Book (with the artist Jackie Morris, 2017) and Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019). His work has been translated into many languages, won prizes around the world, and his books have been widely adapted for film, television, stage and radio. He has collaborated with artists, film-makers, actors, photographers and musicians, including Hauschka, Willem Dafoe, Karine Polwart and Stanley Donwood. In 2017 he was awarded the EM Forster Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.