琼·狄迪恩作品集：20世纪80与90年代 Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America

Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 20, 2021

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 851 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1598536834

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598536836

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 1.4 x 8.15 inches

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书籍简介

美国文库继续推出当代较具震撼力的作家之一——狄迪恩的权威版本，本卷收录了她职业生涯中期较具代表性的报道和小说。

这套美国文库权威狄迪恩作品集的第二卷，包含两部小说和三部杰出的散文集，进一步拓展了她在《向伯利恒跋涉》和《白色专辑》等名著中展现的非凡新闻视角。本书收录了《萨尔瓦多》，深刻剖析了20世纪80年代初中美洲内战中的恐怖主义和冷战政治；《迈阿密》，不仅描绘了一座城市，更展现了移民、流亡、可卡因交易和政治暴力；以及《亨利之后》，其中她报道了帕蒂·赫斯特、南希·里根、“中央公园五人案”以及她曾经的家乡洛杉矶。小说《民主》和《他想要的最后一件事》（后者被Netflix改编成电影）节奏紧凑，笔触精妙，巧妙地描绘了美国政治生活中的权力、阴谋和腐败。这五部作品共同标志着我们这个时代较具活力的作家之一在其职业生涯中期令人瞩目的发展历程。

Library of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and novels from mid-career

This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war of the early 1980s; Miami, a portrait not just of a city but of immigration, exile, the cocaine trade, and political violence; and After Henry, in which she reports on Patty Hearst, Nancy Reagan, the case of the Central Park Five, and the Los Angeles she once called home. The novels Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, the latter recently adapted for film by Netflix, are fast-paced, deftly observed narratives of power, conspiracy, and corruption in American political life. Taken together, these five books mark the remarkable mid-career evolution of one of the most dynamic writers of our time.

作者简介

琼·狄迪恩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，狄迪恩搬到纽约，开始为《Vogue》杂志工作，由此开启了她的记者和作家生涯。1963年，狄迪恩出版了她的第一部小说《奔流之河》（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《他想要的最后一件事》（The Last Thing He Wanted，1996）。

狄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，狄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，狄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。

狄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.