南方与西部（琼·狄迪恩） South And West

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage

Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 2, 2018

Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0525434194

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0525434191

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.16 x 0.47 x 7.94 inches

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书籍简介

全国畅销书 • “当代文学界较受尊敬的散文家之一，重现了她上世纪七十年代穿越美国西南部的公路旅行的原始记录……她对美国文化和历史的敏锐观察，在今天看来尤为具有现实意义。”——《时尚芭莎》

琼·迪迪恩，畅销书作家、获奖作家，著有《奇想之年》和《让我告诉你我的意思》，她一直有记笔记的习惯——记录偶然听到的对话、采访、散文草稿和文章副本。本书收录了她上世纪七十年代笔记中的两段节选；通读之后，它们共同构成了一幅对美国政治和文化格局的深刻洞察。

《南方札记》记录了她和丈夫约翰·格雷戈里·邓恩穿越路易斯安那州、密西西比州和阿拉巴马州的公路旅行。她对途经小镇的敏锐观察、对当地人物的采访，以及他们对种族、阶级和文化传承的关注，都表明，如今的南方依然保持着原貌。

《加州札记》是《滚石》杂志为帕蒂·赫斯特审判而作。虽然迪迪恩没有完成这篇文章，但她在旧金山旁听审判的经历引发了她对西部以及自己在萨克拉门托成长经历的思考。在这里，我们不仅能感受到迪迪恩标志性的讽刺和丰富的想象力，还能深入了解她的内心世界和创作过程。

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s Bazaar 

Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.

“Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today.

“California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.

作者简介

琼·迪迪恩1934年出生于萨克拉门托，1956年毕业于加州大学伯克利分校。毕业后，迪迪恩搬到纽约，开始为《Vogue》杂志工作，由此开启了她的记者和作家生涯。1963年，迪迪恩出版了她的第一部小说《奔流的河流》（Run River）。她的其他小说作品包括《公祷书》（A Book of Common Prayer，1977）、《民主》（Democracy，1984）和《他最后想要的东西》（The Last Thing He Wanted，1996）。

迪迪恩的第一部散文集《向伯利恒跋涉》（Slouching Towards Bethlehem）出版于1968年，第二部散文集《白色专辑》（The White Album）出版于1979年。她的非虚构作品包括《萨尔瓦多》（Salvador，1983）、《迈阿密》（Miami，1987）、《亨利之后》（After Henry，1992）、《政治虚构》（Political Fictions，2001）、《我来自哪里》（Where I Was From，2003）、《我们讲述故事是为了生存》（We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live，2006）、《蓝色之夜》（Blue Nights，2011）、《南方与西部》（South and West，2017）以及《让我告诉你我的意思》（Let Me Tell You What I Mean，2021）。她的回忆录《奇想之年》（The Year of Magical Thinking）荣获2005年美国国家图书奖非虚构类奖项。

2005年，迪迪恩荣获美国艺术与文学学院评论与文学金奖。2007年，她荣获美国国家图书基金会杰出贡献奖章。美国国家图书基金会的颁奖词中写道：“四十多年来，迪迪恩一直是美国政治和文化的敏锐观察者。她独特的简洁优雅的文风与犀利的智慧相结合，使她的作品不仅在美国文学经典中占有一席之地，也赢得了几代作家和记者的敬仰。” 2013年，她荣获巴拉克·奥巴马总统颁发的国家艺术与人文奖章，以及美国笔会颁发的终身成就奖。

迪迪恩曾这样描述自己的写作：“我写作完全是为了弄清我在想什么，我在看什么，我看到了什么，以及它们意味着什么。” 她于2021年12月去世。

Joan Didion was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Didion's other novels include A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996).

Didion's first volume of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968, and her second, The White Album, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Where I Was From (2003), We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006), Blue Nights (2011), South and West (2017) and Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021). Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005.

In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: "An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didion's distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists." In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Didion said of her writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." She died in December 2021.