Yiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction: Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the “20 Under 40”...
Yiyun Li is the author of four works of fiction: Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl. A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Award and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the “20 Under 40” fiction writers to watch. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.
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 or the closest friend I have ever had. Some days I battle it until we both fall down like injured animals. That is when I wonder: What if I become less than nothing when I get rid of this emptiness? What if this emptiness is what keeps me going? (查看原文)
"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 and a future, both making this now look as though it is nowhere. But is is this nowhereness that one has to make use of. One looks out the window: the rice paddies and alfalfa fields have long been the past, replaced by vineyards and almond groves. One has made it this far; perhaps this is enough of a reason to journey on. (查看原文)
not a memoir, more of a collection of personal essays. Talking about her life, her mentality, struggles inside her during spasms of depression, and lots lots of reading experience - I see it as her di...not a memoir, more of a collection of personal essays. Talking about her life, her mentality, struggles inside her during spasms of depression, and lots lots of reading experience - I see it as her dialogue with characters and writers in her reading. 李翊云是那种与其说是天才，不如说是幸运的那类作家。(展开)
最近读了华裔美国作家李翊云的回忆录《亲爱的朋友，我从我的生命里写进你的生命》Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, 颇有感触，做了一些笔记。后来想到把读书笔记发出来，于是扩展了我的笔记，加入了一些对作者的介绍，和自己的有感而发，并附了一些原...
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“An agitated mind does not know any road to peace except the one away from home.” Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life. The title seems to imply a warping of space and narratives. Indeed, Yiyun Li’s story is one that has transcended time...
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我立了要在6月写《Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life》读书笔记的flag，却迟迟交不了作业。这本书不厚，我已经在半年里读了好几遍了，甚至六月，我还又抽了三天再读了一遍，Kindle里的划线，动手的小抄越积越多，但下笔依旧觉得太难了。我明白写不出的主...
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Li Yiyun’s English is often hard for me to read. There are sentences that I read several times yet still don’t fully grasp. Or maybe it’s just what she is trying to convey that I don’t understand. I always find Li's writing restrained to the point of be...
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Random House2017版
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Random House2017版
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0 有用 小满 2020-07-08 21:41:19
很喜欢
0 有用 cherry it up 2017-05-25 10:53:21
not a memoir, more of a collection of personal essays. Talking about her life, her mentality, struggles inside her during spasms of depression, and lots lots of reading experience - I see it as her di... not a memoir, more of a collection of personal essays. Talking about her life, her mentality, struggles inside her during spasms of depression, and lots lots of reading experience - I see it as her dialogue with characters and writers in her reading. 李翊云是那种与其说是天才，不如说是幸运的那类作家。 (展开)
0 有用 摇曳的梨 2017-06-05 22:35:43
直到读到钱佳楠的第十四封信，才停止了强烈的自我代入。她写“我对他说起李翊云的这个可怕的记录，我说，我不行，我喜欢和人在一起，同学笑了笑，对我说，那是因为你们本就是不同的人。这么简单的道理，我竟然到了近三十岁才明白。”