Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via au...
Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature.
To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat and the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle, from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret Atwood today.
Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.
作者简介
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David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Institute for World Literature. He is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book (2007), Comparing the Literatures (2020) and the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2008). He ha...
David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Institute for World Literature. He is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book (2007), Comparing the Literatures (2020) and the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2008). He has lectured in fifty countries around the world, and his online Harvard course, Masterpieces of World Literature, has been taken by nearly 100,000 people.
《细雨》（The Small Rain）卖得不错，但它的后续作品销量不佳，英格努力地寻求属于自己的写作之路，却一次又一次地被拒稿。1958年，在她四十岁生日之时，英格再次收到了退稿信，她决心彻底放弃写作。但随后她意识到，在她做出决定的同时，就已有了计划，去创作一个关于选择的故事。她回到了自己的书桌前，决定写作一部容纳了所有私人趣味的小说，无论这样的组合多么怪异，亦或可能滞销。
她的这部新创作的手稿似乎注定了要比过去十年的写作失败得更彻底。这部小说突出的元素几乎从未被组合进同一部小说：科幻小说（通过“超时空挪移”进行的太空旅行）、纯粹的幻想（体现于三位天使般的女巫：啥太太、谁太太和哪太太），以及青少年现实主义（梅格的母校里刻薄的女孩，她对左右逢源的运动健将凯文·欧基夫情窦初开，确信他对自己来说有多么的遥不可及）。在这些维度以外还要加上对大众文化的政治批评，以及根深蒂固的基督教神学，随后你就得到了一份严重滞销的手稿。在1960年初完成这部小说后，她被三十家出版社拒稿，最后她把手稿给了约翰·法拉（John Farrar，译者按：约翰·法拉是著名的法拉-斯特劳斯&吉鲁出版社的创办人之一，也即该社简称FSG中的“F”。在战后美国出版业的黄金时代，该社签约的作家曾多次获得诺贝尔文学奖。约翰·法拉当时是在一场朋友举办的家庭聚会上遇见了马德琳·英格，对处于创作生涯转折点的英格而言，算是一次幸运的机缘），这位教民来自复活教堂（Church of the Resurrection），恰如其名，英格的创作生涯也得以重生了。
在获得纽伯瑞奖后，英格为《纽约时报》的书评专栏写了一篇文章，她在文中讨论了幻想（fantasy）对年轻人写作的价值：
对一个孩子提出大人所不及的要求通常是可行的……孩子往往能理解让成年人都感到困惑的科学概念。这是因为他可以通过跳跃的想象力来理解，而这是对危险事物知之甚... (查看原文)
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