Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1996. She received an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review,and elsewhere. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award and was awarded a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. She was recently selected as one of Granta's 21 Best of Young American Novelists. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband and their two sons, and teaches at University of California, Davis.
发表于2024-12-09
Where Reasons End 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
同样是呈现母子见的对话,我开始以为它会像龙应台的《亲爱的安德烈》一样,在对世界真相的探讨中给读者展现亲子之间试图消除年代隔阂与文化差异的努力。可是<Where Reasons End>的对话走向却跟设想中完全不一样,因为想对话的另一方早已舍弃这个世界,将的生命句号画在了...
评分同样是呈现母子见的对话,我开始以为它会像龙应台的《亲爱的安德烈》一样,在对世界真相的探讨中给读者展现亲子之间试图消除年代隔阂与文化差异的努力。可是<Where Reasons End>的对话走向却跟设想中完全不一样,因为想对话的另一方早已舍弃这个世界,将的生命句号画在了...
评分This is an unconventional book about lost and grief. A imaginative conversation between a mother and her teenage son who took his own life. Nicolai is dead yet it seems so real to me that he's there. Yiyun's writing connects them together without any cliche...
评分Where reasons end是Yiyun Li在十六岁的大儿子毫无征兆地自杀后写作的,写的是一个母亲和死去的儿子Nicolai的对话,在一个没有时间没有视觉仅有声音的地方 Yiyun Li另有一本回忆录叫Dear Friend, from my life I write to you in your life: 她这样解释这个题目: The books on...
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A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.
The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words."
Written in the months after the author lost a child to suicide and composed as a story cycle, this conversation between mother and child unfolds in a timeless world. Deeply intimate, poignant, and moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity in a relationship across generations, even as they capture the pain of sadness, longing, and loss.
In writing this book, Yiyun Li was inspired by a line from Proust's Remembrance of Things Past "Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy."
Meeting life's deepest sorrow with originality, precision and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.
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评分用非母语写作的人能很容易体会这种和语词缠斗、肉搏的感觉。理解语言,不仅是理解它的含义、背后的逻辑和思维方式,更是它承载的生命体验。儿子之死将母亲抛掷到一种独特的存在状态中,全书没有“故事”,只有想象中的母子对话。母亲回忆儿子的感伤不断被儿子的反驳消解,并迅速展开诡辩般对语言的纠缠,小说进入了对文学和语言本身的反思。我们能否避免隐喻和陈词滥调?形容词、名词、副词对我们的生活世界意味着什么?当然,也少不了海外移民女性的诸多体验,一代和二代移民之间的关系等等……
评分非常私人的对于儿子去世的grief(这种悲痛甚至超越了grief吧)的描述;通过和儿子的对话,关于措辞和语言的些许诡辩,从而让读者了解到作为妈妈的心情。(今年怎么读了这么多关于失去孩子的书???)
评分“Time points in one direction. A mind goes in many directions.”
评分用非母语写作的人能很容易体会这种和语词缠斗、肉搏的感觉。理解语言,不仅是理解它的含义、背后的逻辑和思维方式,更是它承载的生命体验。儿子之死将母亲抛掷到一种独特的存在状态中,全书没有“故事”,只有想象中的母子对话。母亲回忆儿子的感伤不断被儿子的反驳消解,并迅速展开诡辩般对语言的纠缠,小说进入了对文学和语言本身的反思。我们能否避免隐喻和陈词滥调?形容词、名词、副词对我们的生活世界意味着什么?当然,也少不了海外移民女性的诸多体验,一代和二代移民之间的关系等等……
Where Reasons End 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书