A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

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George Saunders
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Random House 2021-1-12 Hardcover 9781984856029

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George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed short story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.

In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

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##太好看了!虽然是写作指南,但其实很适合当作“普通读者如何读书之手把手教程”。作者解析时的口吻足够平易近人,而且字里行间可以感受到他对这些故事的真心喜欢。P.S. 契诃夫太好了!

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##这大概是我今年最喜欢的一本书了。却拖了很久才断断续续作为睡前读物读完它,因为这本书连每个夜晚的睡前时光都变得温柔了。书中的绝大部分小说原作我之前都没有读过,不得不心悦诚服的承认,作者的解读让我完全打开了新世界的大门,让我用自己从来没想过的视角去看待每一个故事,怀着真挚的悲悯和爱惜去试图理解接纳故事里的人物,也去体会作者,他的爱和智慧以及不完美,甚至因此对于生活,我们身边时刻发生的种种荒谬混乱,不幸不堪都有了一种重新审视的角度,有了那个停下来看一看想一想的理由。我想这本书带给我的感受真的就像作者接受采访的一个podcast title说的那样How to be Kind in a Cruel World,也让我想起木心的那句诗,“不知原谅什么,诚觉世事尽可原谅”。

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##再一次证明,我读不了任何教写作和教阅读的书 我无法接受它把短篇拆分成一段一段,然后分析,可以说跟我上高中语文课一模一样 阅读过程真的让我梦回高中,太痛苦了

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##a fascinating transformative experience from being a reader to being a writer.

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##非常棒的俄罗斯小说解读和写作技巧传授。现在我都跃跃欲试想写小说lol

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##直抵人心的洞察,文学独有的熨帖。不过行文中的()实在用太多,扣一星? “ In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).” IN THE CART 【小说写作原理阐述】 1、节奏:与现实生活相比,小说的节奏要更快、更紧凑也更夸张,必须要不停加入新的元素进来,改变已有的局势。 2、预期:好的小说是一方面满足读者的预期,同时又要做到“意料之外、情理之中”。就像Hanov的出场,读者会期盼两人有互动,但又...  

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