Written in the grip of suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is an uplifting account of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li interweaves personal experiences of her childhood in China and her adulthood forging a new life in America with meditations on the many writers she admires - from William Trevor to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf...
Written in the grip of suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is an uplifting account of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li interweaves personal experiences of her childhood in China and her adulthood forging a new life in America with meditations on the many writers she admires - from William Trevor to Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf to Ivan Turgenev. And with quiet integrity, she confirms the fundamental questions that define an author - why write? And why live?
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life的创作者
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Yiyun Li is the author of two novels, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Golden Boy, Emerald Girl. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her storie...
Yiyun Li is the author of two novels, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Golden Boy, Emerald Girl. She has won literary awards including the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two sons.
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life......3
Amongst People......22
Memory Is a Melodrama from Which No One is Exempt......51
Two Lives......82
Amongst Characters......106
To Speak Is to Blunder but I Venture......137
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life......3
Amongst People......22
Memory Is a Melodrama from Which No One is Exempt......51
Two Lives......82
Amongst Characters......106
To Speak Is to Blunder but I Venture......137
Either/Or: A Chorus of Miscellany......153
Reading William Trevor......171
Afterword: On Being a Flat Character, and Inventing Alternatives......195
A Partial List of Books......203
Acknowledgments......207
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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)
one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people. (Chekhov)
Li, Yiyun. Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life (p. 102). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (查看原文)
What is abysmal is that one’s erratic language closes on one as quicksand. Yet what is spoken by others—truth as cliché, cliché as the only truth—is as indisputable as the retreating solid ground, get...What is abysmal is that one’s erratic language closes on one as quicksand. Yet what is spoken by others—truth as cliché, cliché as the only truth—is as indisputable as the retreating solid ground, getting further and further beyond reach. The abyss is that time is annulled by language. We can kill time, but language kills us.
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Li Yiyun的文字实在是太厉害了，非常华丽、婉转、温柔的句子中，冷不丁地来一句简简单单却能狠狠击中要害的句子，长短句编织，读起来又感动又酣畅，作为一位英语非母语的写作者，她一定是下了非常艰苦的功夫。在这本里又读到了更多作者的个人，她在说“亲爱的朋友，从我的生命我写进你的生命”，而我想说：“因为你的文字，我先进入了你的生命，再返回了我自己的生命”。
那么决绝地放弃母语写作，也是意欲决绝地与过去的经历、与故土、与原生家庭的决裂。可是啊，过往的创伤与记忆音乐剧般仍萦绕于脑中、眼前和耳边，这艰难又艰苦的写作般生活和生活般写作也是不断for and against suicide attempt的过程。前段时间得知她的两个孩子陆续自杀，长叹，“我知这世界，本如露水般短暂。然而，然而。”
几乎让人落泪，一个作家对自己内心世界至真至诚的剖析和反思。看了这本书才能更好的理解李翊云的其他作品。读完之后那句“By being addicted to fatalism,one can look calm, capable and even happy.” 一直不断在我脑海里回响。我的人生观一直在宿命论和怀疑论之间来回摇摆徘徊。 坚持一个什么主义其实比很多人想的要困难，因为这要求你有坚定的信念...几乎让人落泪，一个作家对自己内心世界至真至诚的剖析和反思。看了这本书才能更好的理解李翊云的其他作品。读完之后那句“By being addicted to fatalism,one can look calm, capable and even happy.” 一直不断在我脑海里回响。我的人生观一直在宿命论和怀疑论之间来回摇摆徘徊。 坚持一个什么主义其实比很多人想的要困难，因为这要求你有坚定的信念，但我没有。 一个虔诚的某某主义者才能成为一场话剧的主角。(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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Only two hundreds pages , even the author repeated that no autobiography this book, but after those facts about her real life… this book (life) is difficult to read or to comprehend at this point. I put lot of marks, not only the specific words she use，bu...
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Every once a while, I will ask why I'm reading. I got anxious how I'm spending my time. Should I read in English, or Mandarin, should I write in English or Mandarin? The book gives reassurance in so many different ways, via resonation, providing prood of su...
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1 有用 橙橙 2024-03-29 16:10:22 广东
可以在短时间内被反复反复阅读的作品，作者诚实的程度到了对她自己已然到了残忍的地步。
4 有用 霍布斯真难搞 2024-03-17 11:24:32 重庆
What is abysmal is that one’s erratic language closes on one as quicksand. Yet what is spoken by others—truth as cliché, cliché as the only truth—is as indisputable as the retreating solid ground, get... What is abysmal is that one’s erratic language closes on one as quicksand. Yet what is spoken by others—truth as cliché, cliché as the only truth—is as indisputable as the retreating solid ground, getting further and further beyond reach. The abyss is that time is annulled by language. We can kill time, but language kills us. (展开)
1 有用 鹅的事情 2024-03-09 21:25:20 新加坡
这里触及到了一些非常有神性的东西了。
1 有用 黑松露儿 2024-03-28 14:51:52 北京
Li Yiyun的文字实在是太厉害了，非常华丽、婉转、温柔的句子中，冷不丁地来一句简简单单却能狠狠击中要害的句子，长短句编织，读起来又感动又酣畅，作为一位英语非母语的写作者，她一定是下了非常艰苦的功夫。在这本里又读到了更多作者的个人，她在说“亲爱的朋友，从我的生命我写进你的生命”，而我想说：“因为你的文字，我先进入了你的生命，再返回了我自己的生命”。
6 有用 PtEros 2020-05-18 22:08:51
读了2/3，弃了
0 有用 lovearth 2024-05-19 13:52:30 美国
那么决绝地放弃母语写作，也是意欲决绝地与过去的经历、与故土、与原生家庭的决裂。可是啊，过往的创伤与记忆音乐剧般仍萦绕于脑中、眼前和耳边，这艰难又艰苦的写作般生活和生活般写作也是不断for and against suicide attempt的过程。前段时间得知她的两个孩子陆续自杀，长叹，“我知这世界，本如露水般短暂。然而，然而。”
0 有用 zimine 2024-05-19 11:10:23 美国
I must have underlined one-third of the book. Are these her thoughts or mine? The line is blurry.
0 有用 王求 2024-05-12 21:18:03 天津
虽然因为不用母语写作甚至一度拒绝把自己的作品翻译成母语而饱受争议，虽然每一段关于父母尤其是母亲的回忆都那么晦暗，然而在结尾致谢还是写了“love to my parents”，终归没摆脱东亚女性的内核……
0 有用 乌鸦如是说 2024-05-06 21:04:12 上海
几乎让人落泪，一个作家对自己内心世界至真至诚的剖析和反思。看了这本书才能更好的理解李翊云的其他作品。读完之后那句“By being addicted to fatalism,one can look calm, capable and even happy.” 一直不断在我脑海里回响。我的人生观一直在宿命论和怀疑论之间来回摇摆徘徊。 坚持一个什么主义其实比很多人想的要困难，因为这要求你有坚定的信念... 几乎让人落泪，一个作家对自己内心世界至真至诚的剖析和反思。看了这本书才能更好的理解李翊云的其他作品。读完之后那句“By being addicted to fatalism,one can look calm, capable and even happy.” 一直不断在我脑海里回响。我的人生观一直在宿命论和怀疑论之间来回摇摆徘徊。 坚持一个什么主义其实比很多人想的要困难，因为这要求你有坚定的信念，但我没有。 一个虔诚的某某主义者才能成为一场话剧的主角。 (展开)
0 有用 回輈 2024-05-05 22:28:49 美国
完全复刻的文学记忆，“Dear friend from my life i write to you in your life” 两者之间是一道时间的鸿沟，不可跨越的人生。一边读一边泪流满面。Two Lives is just too good…