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

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...  

当安妮法迪曼的《书趣》中文译本还是newly published的时候，我因为封面和书名买下来，事实上那一整套书都很漂亮很讨人喜欢。书里第一篇essay就是 书的婚事 。我不记得那本书上留着我当时的什么感想，但此刻我觉得，那描述的是我能想到最浪漫的事。 二十多年前，我爸爸和我妈...  

关于书的书 　　　——读安妮·法迪曼的《书趣——一个普通读者的自白》 　　　 　　　安妮·法迪曼说，凡是讨论书的书，我一向都难于拒绝。于是，遇到她写的《书趣——一个普通读者的自白》，我也就不拒绝了，其实也拒绝不了。 　　　正如书名，这确是一本有趣的书。...  

这本书是让人一眼就喜欢上的那种,从翻开书页那张素淡的藏书票开始,就让人想拥在怀中. 　　 当然,更不用说书里那些同为书虫的共鸣和心声了,让你觉得一下子找到知音的快乐,从小到大,家里人对我捧本书的样子颇为不屑,都认为读书是件很没有用的事情,只会把人读呆,对生活没...  

这本书是让人一眼就喜欢上的那种,从翻开书页那张素淡的藏书票开始,就让人想拥在怀中. 　　 当然,更不用说书里那些同为书虫的共鸣和心声了,让你觉得一下子找到知音的快乐,从小到大,家里人对我捧本书的样子颇为不屑,都认为读书是件很没有用的事情,只会把人读呆,对生活没...  

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

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