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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##讀完此書大概會成為更好的短篇小說讀者吧,Saunders 有讓我學會關注小說作者的意圖,以及反省自己對不同風格不同腦洞的作品是不是一直以來太不寬容瞭,畢竟閱讀短篇小說就是和作者在建立連結,和作者筆下的人物建立連結呀。自己竟也想多寫一寫。

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##講寫作的部分讓人有些暴躁,作者非常愛用metaphor,過分愛用瞭;但作為讀者的部分還是很有意思的。讀罷Gooseberries我對契柯夫真是佩服得五體投地嗚嗚嗚。

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一本偶然看推送瞭解到的書(否則無論書看封麵,還是聽書名,我都不會去想要瞭解它到底說的啥)。這是我最近獲得的一個小驚喜,甚至算得上說中等驚喜。說雪城大學的一個教授以作傢的角度去解讀7部俄羅斯小說的。從作傢的角度去分析,作者為何要這樣去寫,我們能“偷”到什麼,從...  

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一本偶然看推送瞭解到的書(否則無論書看封麵,還是聽書名,我都不會去想要瞭解它到底說的啥)。這是我最近獲得的一個小驚喜,甚至算得上說中等驚喜。說雪城大學的一個教授以作傢的角度去解讀7部俄羅斯小說的。從作傢的角度去分析,作者為何要這樣去寫,我們能“偷”到什麼,從...  

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