非虚构与文学

May 15, 2011 on 11:29 pm | In 文坛书讯 | 1 Comment

01，Joyce Carol Oates 年初出版的回忆录 A Widow’s Story 最近引起一些热论，Oates 在书里记述了相伴四十六年的丈夫突然离去后她所承受的打击与走过的心路历程，但并未提到自己后来再婚的事，这使得有人质疑这本回忆录的真诚性。《纽约书评》上最近登出Joyce Carol Oates 的一封为自己辩护的信，而《洛杉矶时报》书评人David L. Ulin 的一席话说得相当中肯在理。

“Yet if this latest mini-controversy has anything to tell us, it’s that we still live in a culture that can’t, or doesn’t want to, see the memoir as the imaginative reconstruction of experience rather than an empty recitation of the facts.”

Oates发在《纽约书评》上的信：http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/26/widows-story/

David L. Ulin的文章链接：http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/05/should-joyce-carol-oates-have-revealed-her-second-marriage.html

02，基辛格谈中国，On China, by Henry Kissinger

《纽约时报》书评：http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/book-review-on-china-by-henry-kissinger.html

《卫报》书评：http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/15/on-china-henry-kissinger-review

03，两位爱尔兰作家的新书：

Kevin Barry的首部长篇小说 City of Bohane

书评链接：http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/city-bohane-kevin-barry-review

Edna O’Brien的新短篇集 Saints and Sinners

书评链接：http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/book-review-saints-and-sinners-by-edna-obrien.html

04，《发条橙子》作者Anthony Burgess遗下的手稿里发现二十多篇未发表的短篇小说及其他。

新闻链接：http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8509455/Over-20-unpublished-stories-by-Anthony-Burgess-discovered-in-archive.html