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Dave Eggers is a fucking genius
评分some might not like the author's uneven writing style, especially when you're a post-modernist, he's a post-post-modernist that's why, I have always been a fan of his Best American Nonrequired Reading series, of his non-conventional reading recommendations, this one embarks my reading journey of his own funny and out-of-nowhere adventures
评分Writing style a kindly reminder of The Cather in the Rye~ 读完,每每都得遏制住自己想动手翻译的冲动!市面上人民文学出版社有一个译本,已入手,但读来感觉整体style不太对!
评分some might not like the author's uneven writing style, especially when you're a post-modernist, he's a post-post-modernist that's why, I have always been a fan of his Best American Nonrequired Reading series, of his non-conventional reading recommendations, this one embarks my reading journey of his own funny and out-of-nowhere adventures
评分精彩纷呈,看完好想有个哥哥
Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of eight tutoring centers around the country and ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible. He lives in Northern California with his family.
Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of the book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:").
But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.)
The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World. This sort of thing doesn't age very well--but then, Eggers knows that. There's no criticism you can come up with that he hasn't put into A.H.W.O.S.G. already. "The book thereafter is kind of uneven," he tells us regarding the contents after page 109, and while that's true, it's still uneven in a way that is funny and heartfelt and interesting.
All this self-consciousness could have become unbearably arch. It's a testament to Eggers's skill as a writer--and to the heartbreaking particulars of his story--that it doesn't. Currently the editor of the footnote-and-marginalia-intensive journal McSweeney's (the last issue featured an entire story by David Foster Wallace printed tinily on its spine), Eggers comes from the most media-saturated generation in history--so much so that he can't feel an emotion without the sense that it's already been felt for him. What may seem like postmodern noodling is really just Eggers writing about pain in the only honest way available to him. Oddly enough, the effect is one of complete sincerity, and--especially in its concluding pages--this memoir as metafiction is affecting beyond all rational explanation.
怪才的荒诞与忧伤。作者很多描写自己心理幻想的情节给我留下了深刻的印象。比如母亲癌症晚期快去世时,她幻想母亲去世的情形,葬礼的情形。还有他和塔夫的兄弟之情,那是作为不成熟的爸爸和热情的大哥的混合体,他和塔夫的感情让人嫉妒,两个人天天在一起玩,他照顾塔夫,关心...
评分等了好久,等到中译本。英文原本中,那些有趣的斜体字在中译本中看不到。 最过分的是描述有删减,作为一个译者: 把人扔进一个巨大的硫酸罐里,看着他们尖叫,慢慢融化(英文)vs最严厉的绞刑,脸色从朱红变黑紫,再转成淡紫(中文)。这两种描述是不是译者自由发挥的力度大了点?...
评分怪才的荒诞与忧伤。作者很多描写自己心理幻想的情节给我留下了深刻的印象。比如母亲癌症晚期快去世时,她幻想母亲去世的情形,葬礼的情形。还有他和塔夫的兄弟之情,那是作为不成熟的爸爸和热情的大哥的混合体,他和塔夫的感情让人嫉妒,两个人天天在一起玩,他照顾塔夫,关心...
评分等了好久,等到中译本。英文原本中,那些有趣的斜体字在中译本中看不到。 最过分的是描述有删减,作为一个译者: 把人扔进一个巨大的硫酸罐里,看着他们尖叫,慢慢融化(英文)vs最严厉的绞刑,脸色从朱红变黑紫,再转成淡紫(中文)。这两种描述是不是译者自由发挥的力度大了点?...
评分等了好久,等到中译本。英文原本中,那些有趣的斜体字在中译本中看不到。 最过分的是描述有删减,作为一个译者: 把人扔进一个巨大的硫酸罐里,看着他们尖叫,慢慢融化(英文)vs最严厉的绞刑,脸色从朱红变黑紫,再转成淡紫(中文)。这两种描述是不是译者自由发挥的力度大了点?...
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