John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, a distinguished critic, reviewer and broadcaster, and the author of several books, including studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, and most recently, Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books, described, by James Wood in the London Review of Books, as 'likeable, wise and often right . . . one feels an attractive sense of partisanship in Carey's writing, an alliance with the ordinary, the plain spoken, the unlettered, the sympathetic and the humane. Carey writes with an Orwellian attention to decency'. He is a regular critic on BBC2's Newsnight Review. He is also the editor of the best-selling anthologies The Faber Book of Reportage, The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Utopias.
In Pure Pleasure, John Carey, one of Britain's most respected literary critics, introduces us to what he believes are the fifty most enjoyable books of the twentieth century based on sheer reading pleasure. Mixing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Carey includes literary heavyweights like James Joyce, Thomas Mann, and T. S. Eliot, as well as more populist writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Kingsley Amis, and John Updike. Carey also discusses masterpieces like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, alongside lesser-known works like D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy and George Orwell's Coming Up for Air.In a series of intelligent and fast-moving essays -- each devoted to a single book -- Carey mixes criticism, biography, and cultural context about each selection with illuminations on the author's inspiration and how each work was written. The end result is a book that no one who is passionate about reading should be without.
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在季風書店裏看到《閱讀的至樂》,最先吸引我的是裝幀,樸素的封麵色調,角落裏躺著一幅與書有關的西方漫畫。《閱讀的至樂:20世紀最令人快樂的書》,這個書名也起得好。 可在此也要叮囑一句,此“快樂”非彼“快樂”,盡管約翰·凱裏的書單裏確實有《好兵帥剋》這類能讓你...
評分“重讀一遍康拉德就像是播放自己喜愛的CD。你細細聆聽著,並非為瞭瞭解情節或者人物,而是為瞭欣賞它的遣詞造句和抑揚頓挫——這纔是其無可比擬的獨特之處”。 上麵的話再恰當不過地勾勒齣瞭本書作者約翰•凱裏文學享樂主義者的麵貌,不過他並不像我們慣常對於享樂主義者的印...
評分 評分最近一直在思考如何寫好一篇書評,介紹一本對方沒看過的書,在不怎麼劇透的情況下讓人瞭解到這是什麼樣一本書。如果是本好書,就有讓人閱讀的興趣和欲望。如果是一本爛書,也能成功勸告大傢遠離。同時又希望書評的類型多樣,不拘一格,讓閱讀書評本身也不覺得枯燥。本著這樣的...
評分“對於不讀書的人來說,讀書人是愛擺架子;對讀書人來說,他們感到睏惑:那些不讀書的人拿什麼充實他們的心靈呢?”文章序言中的這段話我很喜歡。 其實就這本書是我看的比較不喜歡的一本,隻是簡單的羅列瞭作者喜歡的20世紀的50本書,而且書評也一般,但這本書的題目...
圖書標籤: 書單 書評 ①不可不讀 literature GW 文學 2012年4月
what a delightful delightful book!
評分他推薦的一些書不見得有名氣但可能是很有意思的好書。每本書的書評短短的兩頁,簡潔而切中要害。
評分他推薦的一些書不見得有名氣但可能是很有意思的好書。每本書的書評短短的兩頁,簡潔而切中要害。
評分what a delightful delightful book!
評分他推薦的一些書不見得有名氣但可能是很有意思的好書。每本書的書評短短的兩頁,簡潔而切中要害。
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