回声泉之旅

[英] 奥利维亚·莱恩, [英国] 奥利维娅·莱恩

出版时间

2016-11-01

ISBN

9787550286443

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
这不是一本关于‘酒鬼作家’的猎奇八卦集,而是一场关于自我救赎的诚实考察。作者奥利维娅·莱恩以‘回声泉’——一个因酒得名、却被醉鬼当作‘短途旅行’终点的酒柜——为线索,穿行于菲茨杰拉德、海明威、田纳西·威廉斯等六位美国作家的生平与文本之间。她真正追问的,是天才的创造力究竟以何种代价兑换:当酒精成为抵御焦虑的‘巨人杀手’,当逃避与回归反复撕扯,写作又能否成为一个人重新站稳的支点?书中最动人的,恰是这种‘命运相连’的隐秘——爱着的作家们如何在各自的沉沦里彼此辨认。它适合那些愿意直视‘浑浊脑袋’、又不满足于看一场文坛丑剧的读者。
作者简介
奥利维亚·莱恩(OliviaLaing) 英国记者、作家。曾担任《观察家报》代理书评编辑。在《观察家报》 《新政治家》 《泰晤士报文学增刊》和《卫报》上多次发表文章和书评。出版的书有《沿河行》《孤独的城市:形单影只的艺术》等。曾获得麦克道威尔奖学金、艺术委员会和作家基金会的津贴作为本书创作基金。
AI导读
核心看点
  • 探寻六位文豪与酒精的纠缠关系
  • 揭示灵感迸发背后的痛苦代价
  • 剖析写作与酗酒作为逃避机制
读者共识
  • 立意深刻,但中文编辑质量备受诟病
  • 海明威与菲茨杰拉德章节最为精彩
  • 结构略显松散,不如作者其他作品
精彩摘录
  • "“回声泉”不过是一个酒柜的绰号,因为里面装的波旁酒的牌子是因“回声泉”而得名。然而,其象征意义却完全不同:也许是一切归于寂静;也许是心中苦念的消褪;至少,在喝下那一口琼浆玉露时,这个世界暂时只剩下欢愉。"
  • "酒精是“巨人杀手”,令你欲罢不能的毒药。这话直击人心,如同《麦克白》中,门房那番关于酗酒的言辞:“所以多喝酒,对于淫欲也可以说是个两面派:成全它,又破坏它;捧它的场,又拖它的后腿;鼓励它,又打击它;替它撑腰,又让它站不住脚;结果呢,两面派把它哄睡了,叫它做了一场荒唐的春梦,就溜之大吉了。”"
  • "In Memoirs, he (Tennessee Williams) reflected on how important this recognition of being part of a collective was, not just for his own but for any attempt to achieve balance of mind: ‘that recognition of being a member of multiple humanity with its multiple needs, problems and emotions, not a uniqu"
  • "Writing in praise of Fitzgerald years later, John Cheever observed that his genius lies in the provision of details. Clothes, dialogue, drinks, hotels, incidental music: all are precisely rendered, plunging the reader into the lost world of the Riviera or West Egg or Hollywood or wherever it is we a"
  • "it chimed with one of Williams’s most passionately held beliefs about people: that they remain resistant to knowing, no matter how long or short the acquaintance. ‘So I turn to my journals. I always do when things look bad. That’s partly why I seem such a morbid guy in these journals,’ Williams wrot"
  • "He (Cheever) described the temporal sleight of hand that comes from watching the sun rise at half past one over the Atlantic, adding a little later: ‘One does not travel so much as one seems incised – a picture cut out of a magazine and pasted onto another landscape.’I’d copied these phrases down be"
  • "All his life, Hemingway possessed a genius for packing, for assembling trunks and fishing boxes; for stowing the things he needed on his travels in the most elegant and ingenious of ways. There’s something of the same facility here, in this knack for building secret layers, for filling his fictions "
  • "Writing in the Nation, Adrienne Rich described it (Dream Songs) as ‘creepy and scorching’, observing ‘his book owes much of its beauty and flair to a kind of unfakable courage, which spills out in comedy as well as in rage, in thrusts of tenderness as well as defian Inspiration contained a death thr"
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