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2015-01-13
Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
Wendy Fairey
Arcade Publishing
March 2015
288pp
書籍編號:
03-8359
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● 內文簡介

她,帶領我們走進《大亨小傳》作者費茲傑羅一手打造的藏書室!

她,自幼在《大亨小傳》作者費茲傑羅為母親打造的藏書室玩耍,這裡也是她最愛逗留的秘密地。書架上那些收藏的經典文學,是她的密友,也是她的人生導師,是開啟她豐盛人生的黃金鑰匙。

她,就是《大亨小傳》作者費茲傑羅生前的情人、也是電影專欄作家席拉‧葛蘭姆(Sheilah Graham)女兒Wendy Fairey,本書就是她的閱讀回憶錄。

身為電影專欄作家席拉‧葛蘭姆的女兒,Wendy個性害羞卻好學不倦,小時候最喜愛窩在家裡的小圖書室閱讀,那裡是媽媽的情人、偉大作家費茲傑羅為母親打造小小藏書室,也是他在人生最後一年(1940年)與母親同居的地方,並在家裡的客廳撒手人寰。

藏書室收藏豐富的經典文學小說,從狄更斯到薩克萊(William Thackeray)、從吳爾芙到詹姆斯(Henry James),費茲傑羅間接成為作者走進文學大地的啟蒙者。

小說主角成為她的閨密,讓當時還是小女孩的她暫時逃離喧鬧的好萊塢世界,進入英國文學的豐沃大地。她閱讀查爾斯.狄更斯的《塊肉餘生錄》,書中人物科波菲爾的感性和熱望與她如出一轍,兩人一樣活在可怕繼父的暗影下;她又感覺自己像《簡愛》的主角簡般的樸實無華,同時,渴望像《浮華世界》的貝姬.夏普一樣的虛榮。文學陪伴她成長,直至讓她日後成為一名英文教授,乃至學院院長。

在這一部私密又激勵人心的回憶錄中,作者展現她對閱讀的狂熱如何為她帶來快樂的源泉,並在人生不同階段裡,豐富她的生活和自我檢視。福斯特(E. M. Forster)的《Howards End》(出版於1910年,後被改編成電影【此情可問天】)幫助她應付失敗的婚姻;維吉尼亞.吳爾芙在《燈塔行》(To the Lighthouse)一書中的角色拉姆齊夫人(Mrs. Ramsay)教會她關於愛的重要一課;艾略特(George Eliot)的《丹尼爾的半生緣》(Daniel Deronda)讓她學會身為一位猶太人的承擔,開始接受她的親生父親——艾耶爾(Alfred Jules Ayer),一位著名的英國哲學家。

這本回憶錄結合了作者個人的閱讀經歷以及對文學的獨到見解,將帶領讀者遊走於19世紀末至20世紀初的經典英國文學小說,強烈感受偉大文學如何能夠永遠激勵人心,並陪伴及指導不同年代的人成長。

 

● 作者簡介

Wendy Fairey,擁有哥倫比亞大學的博士學位,在紐約大學的布魯克林學院(Brooklyn College)教授英文文學和創意寫作,曾出任該學院院長。著有家族傳記《One of the Family》和短篇故事集《Full House》兩書,現居於曼克頓。

 

● 媒體報導

“Bookmarked is a gorgeous journey through Fairey’s rather fascinating life, interwoven with analyses of books she taught that transformed her. A window onto a deeply personal understanding of great literature. I was moved and could not put this memoir down.”──Ally Sheedy, actress

“People interested in good novels, good gossip, and the conjunctions of real and imagined lives will enjoy this memoir. Wendy Fairey’s pleasure in reading and recalling her own story and other people’s is contagious.”──Rachel Brownstein, author of Why Jane Austen?

“Fairey brilliantly illustrates the enduring power of literature by employing her mastery and profound love of the classics to shine a light on the mysteries of her own life. An irresistible work of compelling scholarship and quiet beauty.”──Nancy Goldstone, author of The Maid and The Queen and The Rival Queens

“Wendy Fairey is a literary scholar, but don’t let that fool you. Her lifelong infatuation with the novel has been a journey of the heart, as well as the mind. Her story is both unique and familiar. It’s not that her scholar’s voice has disappeared. It has simply been tempered and made even stronger by an understanding much broader than critical analysis. Fairey reminds us here that reading can be—and really it should be—a personal, life-enriching pursuit.”──Frye Gaillard, author of The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir