安妮·法迪曼(Anne Fadiman),生于美国纽约市,在康涅狄格州和洛杉矶长大,毕业于哈佛大学。毕业后,她在怀俄明州当野外探险向导,后来回到纽约从事写作。曾任《生活》杂志的特约撰稿人,《文明》杂志编辑和《美国学人》编辑。她的第一本书《鬼怪抓住你,你就跌倒了》(The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,FSG,1997)获“美国国家书评奖”,她还写有随笔集《书趣》(Ex Libris),编有《经典重温》(Rereadings,FSG,2005)等作品。她现与家人住在马萨诸塞州西部,并担任耶鲁大学弗朗西斯住校作家。
Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice.
This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
前几天和美院的几个刚认识的朋友一起吃饭,其中一个告诉我说他的专业是室内设计。 我一听这个专业,不禁乐了一下。因为想起安妮法迪曼在【书的婚事】里讲的一件事儿。 安妮的朋友把房子租给一个室内设计师住了几个月。过了一段时间,当房子重新收回的时候,他们发现整个书房...
评分要说这个暑假最大的收获,就是一本一本买了不少书,还能够看了其中的三分之一强。 下午把上班的爸爸和山山送走,又给上班的姐姐打了慰问电话,发短信给上班的妈妈。 然后不上班的我,就开始擦地,对于擦地这件事,我只会像一休哥那样,还没有人家那么熟练。 所以,在擦了厨...
评分读着安妮.法迪曼的<<书趣>>,嘴角禁不住的扬起来,感觉那种在书中才能找到的小小快乐又回来了. 很羡慕她周围的环境,有这么多嗜书的亲人,朋友.这种家庭氛围就是书香门第的氛围. 我一直心向往之...她的这本书让我不由得想到杨绛先生写到的家庭场景,一张书桌,每人各据一角,中间堆...
评分这本书的副标题是——“一个普通读者的自白”。 作者安妮·法迪曼出生书香门第,父亲、母亲、哥哥、老公都是作家、学问家,家族藏书过万应该是没有问题的。这样的一个人谦称自己为普通读者,叫我们这些喜欢瞎看一气的三脚猫们情何以堪啊。 当然,她这么说也不是过分的谦虚,...
评分文笔不错的一本小书,只给了三星,给分这么低,是因为我对里面写的小故事们不是很感兴趣,或者说不是很有共鸣。为什么会如此呢?明明作者文笔挺好、说的又是我感兴趣的读书这件事。 纠结两天才想清楚,正如前言里作者说的,普通人读书是为了乐趣,想从碰到的各种零零碎碎中为自...
每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里,沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中,贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴!
评分每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里,沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中,贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴!
评分每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里,沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中,贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴!
评分每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里,沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中,贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴!
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