A masterclass for those who love reading literature and for those who aspire to write it.
“Read everything that is good for the good of your soul. Then learn to read as a writer, to search out that hidden machinery, which it is the business of art to conceal and the business of the apprentice to comprehend.”
In The Hidden Machinery, critically acclaimed and New York Times bests...
A masterclass for those who love reading literature and for those who aspire to write it.
“Read everything that is good for the good of your soul. Then learn to read as a writer, to search out that hidden machinery, which it is the business of art to conceal and the business of the apprentice to comprehend.”
In The Hidden Machinery, critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Margot Livesey offers a masterclass for those who love reading literature and for those who aspire to write it. Through close readings, arguments about craft, and personal essay, Livesey delves into the inner workings of fiction and considers how our stories and novels benefit from paying close attention to both great works of literature and to our own individual experiences. Her essays range in subject matter from navigating the shoals of research to creating characters that walk off the page, from how Flaubert came to write his first novel to how Jane Austen subverted romance in her last one. As much at home on your nightstand as it is in the classroom, The Hidden Machinery will become a book readers and writers return to over and over again.
作者简介
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MARGOT LIVESEY is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Mercury, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals, and Homework. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Gug...
MARGOT LIVESEY is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Mercury, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, Banishing Verona, Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, Criminals, and Homework. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vogue, and the Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
目录
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1. The Hidden Machinery: Writing the Life, Shaping the Novel
2. Mrs. Turpin Reads the Stars: Creating Characters Who Walk Off the Page
3. Nothing but Himself: Embracing Jane Asten's Second Chances
4. Hush, Shut Up, Please Be Quiet: Letting Our Characters Tell and Show
5. Even One Day: Considering Aesthetics with Virginia Woolf
6. Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: Paying Homage
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1. The Hidden Machinery: Writing the Life, Shaping the Novel
2. Mrs. Turpin Reads the Stars: Creating Characters Who Walk Off the Page
3. Nothing but Himself: Embracing Jane Asten's Second Chances
4. Hush, Shut Up, Please Be Quiet: Letting Our Characters Tell and Show
5. Even One Day: Considering Aesthetics with Virginia Woolf
6. Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: Paying Homage
7. Gustave and Emma: Finding the First Novel
8. How to Tell a True Story: Mapping Our Narratives onto the World
9. Shakespeare for Writers: Learning from the Masters
10. He Liked Custard: Navigating the Shoals of Research
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4 有用 至秦 2018-01-25 11:53:25
看导师写的这本谈写作的书看得停不下来！
2 有用 fushia 2021-01-17 22:24:40
近期精神食粮。好读又耐读，务实也务虚。写作就是往抵抗力最大的地方走，是辨别自己的来路和去处，知晓自己所依赖的方式方法，然后拓展它、改变它、甚至抛弃它。写作是自己和自己的搏斗。需要智慧、勇气还有无尽的决心。
0 有用 fugue 2022-08-02 12:30:13
Not bad. The essay on Woolf and To the Lighthouse was smart.
0 有用 樱桃小独角 2019-11-22 06:04:28
很好的书啊~解答了我很多困惑。"Plausibility in art is not always devoutly to be wished for. Certain gestures, while not making actual sense, make poetic sense".
0 有用 萄之 2024-04-26 16:33:17 荷兰
喜欢奥斯汀、伍尔夫、福楼拜与包法利夫人，和关于如何做research的章节，但与其说学习了什么不如说受到了内心的激励。另外，直接用英文去理解写作好像又是一种不同的感受，的确在这个语言下我的思维方式和人格都改变了。
0 有用 萄之 2024-04-26 16:33:17 荷兰
喜欢奥斯汀、伍尔夫、福楼拜与包法利夫人，和关于如何做research的章节，但与其说学习了什么不如说受到了内心的激励。另外，直接用英文去理解写作好像又是一种不同的感受，的确在这个语言下我的思维方式和人格都改变了。
0 有用 fugue 2022-08-02 12:30:13
Not bad. The essay on Woolf and To the Lighthouse was smart.
2 有用 fushia 2021-01-17 22:24:40
近期精神食粮。好读又耐读，务实也务虚。写作就是往抵抗力最大的地方走，是辨别自己的来路和去处，知晓自己所依赖的方式方法，然后拓展它、改变它、甚至抛弃它。写作是自己和自己的搏斗。需要智慧、勇气还有无尽的决心。
0 有用 樱桃小独角 2019-11-22 06:04:28
很好的书啊~解答了我很多困惑。"Plausibility in art is not always devoutly to be wished for. Certain gestures, while not making actual sense, make poetic sense".
4 有用 至秦 2018-01-25 11:53:25
看导师写的这本谈写作的书看得停不下来！