A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.
Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, thro...
A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.
Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us.
In “Freedom,” Le Guin notes: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now … to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.”
Le Guin was one of those authors and in Words Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.
或许因为后半是书评集,有几篇确实读来像命题作文,远不如写自家房子那篇真情流露(这也是理所当然的),也可能是因为反复提及严肃文学与类型文学之间本不该存在的分野和鄙视链,略显重复,阅读体验不如No Time to Spare有博客文章特有的亲近感。记录一句对格尔茨的酷评,笑:「I rather dislike Clifford Geertz. I don’t like being taught by ...或许因为后半是书评集,有几篇确实读来像命题作文,远不如写自家房子那篇真情流露(这也是理所当然的),也可能是因为反复提及严肃文学与类型文学之间本不该存在的分野和鄙视链,略显重复,阅读体验不如No Time to Spare有博客文章特有的亲近感。记录一句对格尔茨的酷评,笑:「I rather dislike Clifford Geertz. I don’t like being taught by a snob. Whereas Lévi-Strauss, […] is not a snob, and I delight in learning from him. I can handle aristocrats, I just can’t take parvenus. Ha!”」(展开)
1 有用 野次馬 2025-01-21 12:45:27 美国
或许因为后半是书评集,有几篇确实读来像命题作文,远不如写自家房子那篇真情流露(这也是理所当然的),也可能是因为反复提及严肃文学与类型文学之间本不该存在的分野和鄙视链,略显重复,阅读体验不如No Time to Spare有博客文章特有的亲近感。记录一句对格尔茨的酷评,笑:「I rather dislike Clifford Geertz. I don’t like being taught by ... 或许因为后半是书评集,有几篇确实读来像命题作文,远不如写自家房子那篇真情流露(这也是理所当然的),也可能是因为反复提及严肃文学与类型文学之间本不该存在的分野和鄙视链,略显重复,阅读体验不如No Time to Spare有博客文章特有的亲近感。记录一句对格尔茨的酷评,笑:「I rather dislike Clifford Geertz. I don’t like being taught by a snob. Whereas Lévi-Strauss, […] is not a snob, and I delight in learning from him. I can handle aristocrats, I just can’t take parvenus. Ha!”」 (展开)
1 有用 Markweekly 2024-03-03 19:19:30 北京
科幻巨擘Ursula Le Guin的非小说文稿集。读起来非常有趣,里面有很多写给别的作者的书评,引言,以及散文等等。le guin的文字读起来轻松而睿智,有一种引人入胜的颅内高潮效果。强烈推荐。她的科幻作品多聚焦两性,也非常推荐
0 有用 苏诺 2021-05-17 00:45:06
With conscience and wisdom. The writing is as precise as always.
0 有用 ZZ 2024-09-29 04:47:11 美国
周末花了半天時間讀完,跳掉了一些我沒有看過的書的書評。她的散文一樣好看。
0 有用 刘魔王 2024-05-29 09:44:01 广东
厄休拉勒古恩教我们如何培养想象力,如何阅读,如何写作,如何写书评! 一本非常难得的书,书里太多受益匪浅的句子啦,我觉得我应该会看好多遍吧!