From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live.
In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for ...
From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live.
In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program.
Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches each of these stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. For the process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is as much a craft as it is a quality of openness and a willingness to see the world through new eyes. Funny, frank, and rigorous, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain ultimately shows how great fiction can change a person's life and become a benchmark of one's moral and ethical beliefs.
作者简介
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George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize and the Premio Rezzori prize. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to...
George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize and the Premio Rezzori prize. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
A story is a linear-temporal phenom non. It proceeds, and charms us (or doesn’t), a line at a time. We have to keep being pulled into a story in order for it to do anything to us. (查看原文)
observe your reading mind这件事很神奇 甚至可以套用在电影 日常生活各方面 feel and observe and distill then it becomes part of your instinct which can be channeled for writing as well as reading. 作者对有些段落模凌两可的解释反而比确信无疑的分析更有趣
I have been thinking about my writing again recently and my plan was to analyze and learn from David Foster Wallace, a writer I admire a lot. But I have to admit, that's a pretty intimidating task. As I was being reluctant to start the action, a new book ca...
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1 有用 Twist 2022-01-17 00:19:40
observe your reading mind这件事很神奇 甚至可以套用在电影 日常生活各方面 feel and observe and distill then it becomes part of your instinct which can be channeled for writing as well as reading. 作者对有些段落模凌两可的解释反而比确信无疑的分析更有趣
1 有用 虚度日常 2023-01-03 14:22:55 上海
分析其实并不是最学术，但不失有趣。纳博科夫吐槽屠格涅夫不擅长人物描写，哈哈，其实好多作家都不擅长啊~
1 有用 Oysteromelet 2023-05-30 07:44:00 中国香港
My best of 2023🔒 写出契诃夫老师的深刻又温柔
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1 有用 califlo 2021-01-31 21:58:16
虚拟文学课，有种seminar或者workshop的感觉。几个案例短篇原作占了不少篇幅，作者的分析不长但是挺有意思的。Intro里有句话说对了，这本书既适合作者也适合读者。有声书背景音乐有老柴，加分！