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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##魅力是俄羅斯文學給的,契訶夫太偉大瞭。The author’s analysis is inspiring as well.

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##作者分析瞭7個俄國短篇故事的“反常”之處,從而引齣對如何寫齣好故事對理解。作者強調瞭真誠和尊重讀者(從而不滿足於一般預期,而是要努力探索其他可能性),以及尊重自己(相信自己獨特的偏好,從而努力修改作品使其更符閤自己對偏好;不預設特定的風格,而是抱著開放的心態...  

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##很受益!以後一定認真revise…我真的會越來越喜歡契,Gooseberries那篇忍不住迴憶瞭一下萬尼亞舅舅20年的劇場set

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##再一次證明,我讀不瞭任何教寫作和教閱讀的書 我無法接受它把短篇拆分成一段一段,然後分析,可以說跟我上高中語文課一模一樣 閱讀過程真的讓我夢迴高中,太痛苦瞭

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##太好看瞭!雖然是寫作指南,但其實很適閤當作“普通讀者如何讀書之手把手教程”。作者解析時的口吻足夠平易近人,而且字裏行間可以感受到他對這些故事的真心喜歡。P.S. 契訶夫太好瞭!

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

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