Single Reading October Pick
The golden autumn and October are the seasons suitable for traveling. What you can see and feel are all the moving appearances written by prose writers. October also has one of the few long holidays in the year, so I can finally say goodbye to “shit work” and recharge my exhausted self. But how much I hope that a happy mood, a keen sense of sensibility, and the exercise of thinking are not a limited state for a certain period of time. Is it possible that every day, at certain moments, we can sort out the flow of thoughts on a larger scale, and examine the state of life in a subtle moment?
The single-read October pick collects the editors’ reading and listening results in October, and wants to make some gentle confrontations with reality through these “artificial objects”, so that the “self” can be solemn and gain the spiritual power not to be afraid of life.
October
Writers We Follow
Writer of the Month
Li Jing
“Literary criticism should come from the repayment of literature.” What I’m Afraid of Life shows us is a writer’s simple “repayment” of literature, which includes her confession of the origin of her original writing , and there is no shortage of plays, poems, essays, essays and literary theories created by individuals. In the face of life, we inevitably have moments of cowardice, but Li Jing tells us through her own writing process that literature can be a way for us to face life directly. She is not afraid of “offending the audience” but also takes her literary criticism seriously. Although she is likely to be regarded as “a void and a chasing after the wind”, she insists on providing readers with a scale of criticism, and in the creation of dramas, Dare to question the problems and conflicts of the times. As she herself said: “Art can only grow into itself if it offends the audience’s habits uncompromisingly.”
October
Book design that appeals to us
Book Design of the Month
smiling thief
The “Sick Rose” collection will never let you down. Spot color ridge hardcover, gold and silver hot and silver, exquisite illustration printing and binding design. Probably most people’s imagination of a hardcover book.
October
Podcasts we love to listen to
Podcast of the Month
Xinrui Radio
“Recording the Live State of Knowledge” is the slogan of this slightly niche academic talk podcast. At a time when academic expressions are becoming more and more complex and academic fields are constantly subdivided and closed, this podcast seems to have made an attempt to cross multiple disciplines and connect academics and the public, providing scholars with a kind of agility that cannot be accommodated in paper writing. way of expression. “35 years old”, the brain science of love, auditory fun, hospice care, workplace “fitness fever”, social “psychological fever”, its program topics and conversation perspectives are both interesting and realistic. But what’s even more lovely is that in the conversation between the host and the guests, there is often some kind of embarrassment in the face of recording equipment, but the accuracy of “asking a good question to the point”, really caring about one’s own research and having something to say The sense of solidity is often admirable: knowledge with life is produced in these sincere and intellectual exchanges.
October
Books That Fill Our Spirits
Books of the Month
01
White
The writing experiment carried out by all kinds of white things is the direct source of the title of the book “White”. The reason for writing these white things, the author Han Jiang wrote, “The Korean word for white is ‘하얀’ and ‘흰’. Adjective. Unlike the former, which is white like cotton candy, the latter is bleakly permeated with life and death. What I want to write is a ‘white’ book that belongs to the latter.” A series of white images fell on the paper, the writer His thoughts spread infinitely, and they traveled freely in different times and scenes, and in that segment, there was always white, and there was a connection between white and white. In my understanding, the author is writing intangible things with tangible things, such as time, memory and life – not only about the birth and death of the physical body, but also how people perceive their existence, in time and memory exists in. “Bai” is interesting in form and also displays excellent language. Each sentence, as beautiful as a verse, is put together to bring a rich experience of the five senses, inviting people to escape into the extraordinary daily life constructed by the author. “Bai” is like a naked person, staring at everything that flows through life without evasion, even if they all share a core of sorrow. As Han Jiang said: “I have to believe in the part of our hearts that is not broken, tarnished, and cannot be destroyed no matter what. I can only believe.”
02
Vienna at the end of the century
Vienna at the End of the Century is a masterpiece of language, subject matter and academics. The original edition won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981, and it has been reprinted continuously in the Chinese-speaking world over the past ten years. Although they are located in the special time and space of Vienna at the end of the century, the seven chapters capture the flow of the transition from classical liberalism to modern thinking in various fields in different forms, or a summary of characters, or text interpretation, or image tracking. It’s hard to imagine what a grand task it is to write, research, and organize.
Inside almost every page and every chapter, the author uses a historian’s meticulous eye to salvage dramatic moments from the muddy sewage of the past. For example, in his chapter on politics, he describes the anti-liberal political leaders of the time by creating “ideological collages” that glued together “modernity, glimpses of the future and remnants of a nearly forgotten past”, compared to freedom Pai can better meet the “spiritual needs” of the general public. Although such a language with many dimensions is difficult, it presents the confrontation of ideas in the two dimensions of time and space in just a few sentences, which is both vicious and important. The most dramatic sense of the word – and a very accurate glimpse into end-century Europe.
03
Idol disqualification
The story of “Idol Disqualification” started from a popular and very “at this moment” beginning when Mingli, a first-year high school student, read the negative news about his idol beating up fans on social media. With this book, the author Usami has become the third youngest recipient of the Akutagawa Prize in Japan. Her language is both light and realistic, and she writes without a trace from her fanatical love for idols to the adolescence to “alive”. If there is resistance from physical to psychological, then the former called the latter’s redemption is logical. Even people who have no personal experience with star chasing can understand the pain and eagerness of a high school student in such a narrative.
The book excerpts a large number of blog texts written by Mingli as a fan-a style we often meet in real life but never take seriously-like a diary of her life, and a declaration of her survival. Even when recording the farewell concert of the idol’s exit from the entertainment industry, Mingli also wrote, “I wore my favorite blue floral dress on that day, wearing a blue bow, and participated in the battle as a true lucky fan.” “Idol Disqualification” reads like an existential novel at this moment. Now that God and meaning are invisible together, and living at a minimum has become a reality, what can mobilize the passion of the body?
04
Thinking is my resistance
In this small selection of Woolf’s (1882-1941) diaries from 1915 to 1941, spanning from the age of 33 to the days before she chose to commit suicide at the age of 59, we see more than just the brilliant author, critic, and feminist pioneer, but a real human being in more dimensions. These few words, recorded over time, allow us to walk between the public and private realms where Woolf was at the time, such as when he wrote at the beginning of the First World War: “We slept through the New Year’s bell. At first I thought they were cries of victory.” “I think the future is bleak, even the best of the future.” And behind-the-scenes writing: “I’ve been writing all morning, writing Hearty, which is strange, because I also know I’m not very good at writing.” “I don’t like Ulysses more and more, . . . thank goodness. I don’t have to write a review for it.” Elf, not only shows her usual agility and sharpness, but also observes and records her own depression and embarrassment. These private texts from the past also comfort us today. Reading it is like an intimacy that spans time. Dialogue, let us face fear, unknown and loneliness together with Woolf a hundred years ago.
05
Beyond Ground Zero: A Study of American Fiction in the 21st Century
What exactly are we talking about when we talk about “9/11”? Or why is it still worth talking about today? From the explosion of the Twin Towers to the United States’ anti-terrorist war against Afghanistan and Iraq to terrorist attacks on a global scale, this catastrophic event not only broke people’s daily life and cognition, but also profoundly defined the world to some extent. The so-called “community of destiny” for mankind in the era of change. In this book, the author focuses on the “9.11” incident and “Falling Man”, “Especially Loud, Very Close”, “The Stranger in Lahore Teahouse”, “Yellow Bird” and other literatures based on it The work, with the help of meticulous textual analysis and multiple critical theories, puts this event into a broader historical context such as Auschwitz, the Hiroshima bombing, and the Dresden bombing to discuss violence, terror, and war. , empathy, trauma, etc.
But this is not a series of works on the study of “9.11” novels. On the contrary, the author cuts in in the way of “de-9.11”, looking at the ambiguous relationship between art, aesthetics and terror from the source of history. The relationship between terrorists colluding/competing with each other brings the novels of Levi, Melville, Conrad and others into the context of history, rethinking how literature witnesses and reflects, and how to transform the representation of the other into the opposite. Ethical actions of readers. From the victim to the perpetrator, while thinking about the profound impact of the “9.11” incident on the individual in multiple emotional dimensions such as trauma, mourning, empathy and memory, the author is also looking for and reflecting on this kind of violence Origin and change.
What he emphasizes is to let literature look at reality through the intervention of text, and to reiterate the core principle of humanism in the main body of the reader – “a firm belief that individual life should not be sacrificed to an abstract and unified principle, a firm belief that art There is an inexorable difference in life values from terrorism.”
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