Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece.
Contents:
I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
John Wayne: A Love Song
Where the Kissing Never Stops
Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)
7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38
California Dreaming
Marrying Absurd
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
II. PERSONALS
On Keeping a Notebook
On Self-Respect
I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind
On Morality
On Going Home
III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND
Notes from a Native Daughter
Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W
Rock of Ages
The Seacoast of Despair
Guaymas, Sonora
Los Angeles Notebook
Goodbye to All That
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very informative & addictive style! 招人煩又有點迷人的一點是:結尾總要巧 但一巧又在攪渾水 把簡單攪復雜 深刻化直白 不宜感官為主邏輯不清者如我 有故弄玄虛之嫌 (和平學校那篇太絕瞭)
評分Goodbye to all that略帶當前逃離北上廣的啓迪 “...an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself...”
評分處處大媽招牌的biting irony
評分現實地體現瞭美國“垮掉的一代”
評分60年代加州反文化潮。最好的三篇:西進的中産情欲纏繞,瓊·貝茨和反暴力學校,年輕、昏熱、放棄語言的嬉皮士寫真。加州熱風割麵,氛圍寫得蠻好。
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