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伟大的随笔与随笔作家
Great Essays and Essayists
导读
这篇讨论围绕“伟大随笔与随笔作家”展开,评论者补充推荐 David Foster Wallace、Phillip Lopate 的个人随笔选集等,并涉及科学随笔与选本多样性。对写作者来说,这是一份扩展随笔阅读谱系、观察不同风格如何组织思想与材料的实用讨论。
可以直接用的写作要点
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让文字围绕主题流动、穿插,而不是只做线性说明,能提升随笔的可读性。
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读跨度大的个人随笔选集,主动接触不同年代与风格,训练自己的思维模式。
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把对他人作品的拆解和个人生活思考结合,能形成更有洞见的随笔。
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选读谱系要有意识纳入女性与有色人种随笔家,避免只沿默认经典名单。
HN 评论精选
DFW 的随笔以流动的文字和广博见解拆解主题,值得从毕业演讲入门。
虽然他不一定写那种在学术意义上创造或解释根本思想的随笔,我仍会推荐 David Foster Wallace 作为随笔家。我读了他的短篇随笔集 Both Flesh and Not,他的文字围绕主题流动、穿插的方式读来极满足;他对其他作家和文学作品的见解与拆解也令人开眼,哪怕我是理科背景也能受益;他对生活、现代性和文化的思考同样很好。入门最好从 2005 年他在 Kenyon College 的毕业演讲 This is Water 开始,读起来很棒,听他讲更享受。
thicknavyrain查看英文原文
While he doesn't write essays that necessarily create or explain fundamental ideas in the academic sense, I'd definitely pitch for David Foster Wallace as an essayist. I picked up a short collection of his essays, "Both Flesh and Not", and the manner in which his writing flows through and around the topics of his choice is extremely satisfying to read. His opinions, insights and deconstruction of other writers and literary works are also pretty eye opening, even though I come from a hard sciences background, if only to understand what someone so ridiculously well read has to say about those things. His general musings on life, modernity and culture are also pretty great. The best place to start (in my opinion) is with This is Water, his commencement address to the incoming class at Kenyon College back in 2005: https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ It's a great read, but it's even more enjoyable listening to him deliver it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
跨度大的个人随笔选集是学习不同风格与思维模式的最佳入口。
我想把 Phillip Lopate 编的 The Art of the Personal Essay 也加入书单。这是一本极好的选集,跨越千年,从塞内加、普鲁塔克等古代作家到戈尔·维达尔、H.L.门肯,以及其间诸多作者。就接触不同风格与思维模式而言,这本选集无与伦比。
jihadjihad查看英文原文
I'd like to toss The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate into the mix. It's a terrific collection that spans the millennia--from ancients like Seneca and Plutarch to Gore Vidal and H.L. Mencken, and everything in between. As far as being exposed to different styles and modes of thought go, that anthology can't be beat.
选读随笔谱系应补上女性与有色人种作家,避免单一经典名单。
没有女性随笔家或有色人种随笔家吗?例如 Virginia Woolf 就是一位极出色的随笔家。
mykowebhn查看英文原文
No female essayists or essayists of color? Virginia Woolf, as an example, was a superb essayist.
科学随笔集能拓展写作视野,也提示可向读者征集同类书单。
13 岁容易受影响时,我觉得 Arthur C. Clarke 的科普随笔集 Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible 真正开阔眼界。你最喜欢的科学随笔集是哪本?
pjmorris查看英文原文
As an impressionable 13-year-old, I found Arthur C. Clarke's book of popular science essays, 'Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible', to be a real mind-expand-er. What's your favorite book of science essays?
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