Ex Libris

出版者:Penguin

作者:Anne Fadiman

页数:144

出版时间:2000-03-02

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140283709

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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。

读后感

加拿大随笔作家斯坦·珀斯基曾说，对读者而言，必须要有一百万部自传，因为我们似乎在一本接一本的书中发现了自身生命的痕迹。这种观点对一个爱书人的我而言，不消说一定会高举双手赞成的。但生命中总有那么一个小小意外的痛苦时刻，这不，这个看似小概率的事件让我在读美国作...  

我穿了件我最喜欢的米色毛衣，上一次穿过后就用金纺浸泡，它还残留着淡淡的香味，是我熟悉的。随手翻着美国当代最优秀的随笔散文作家安妮·法迪曼的《书趣——一个普通读者的自白》，九点就着白开水吃完了整袋（6只）椰球豆沙小面包，狼吞虎咽的，总是没饱。 书的纸张有些粗糙...  

妙趣横生，在图书馆借的，本来想看看就还的，甚至为以前买了好多书而后悔，原来山师图书书馆里全有的，猛看了一个月的书，发现书是越看越多，看多了就不会满足图书馆了，因为图书馆的书毕竟不是最新的，书是越看越想看。喜欢法地蔓的书，还做了笔记，把书中介绍的书找来看，书...  

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...  

这本书我最早看的是繁体，简体出版我已经等了好多年了。 那时我还在上大学。我清楚的记得，对这本书的热爱让我在一个暑假跑到国图不外借的图书室里，一字一句的想要将它敲出来——影印每张要2块钱。 当然这和我所有的兴趣爱好一样，在持续了不到3章后就放弃了。 这么多年后...  

用户评价

a book about book lovers

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！

a book about book lovers

a book about book lovers

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！