政治虚构（琼·狄迪恩） Political Fictions

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage

Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 27, 2002

Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 338 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375718907

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375718908

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.23 x 0.79 x 7.91 inches

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书籍简介

全国畅销书 • 在这些冷静而敏锐的随笔中，这位标志性的畅销书作家审视了美国的政治进程，以及“那些年复一年地炮制公共生活叙事的少数内部人士”。

通过对三次总统竞选、一次总统弹劾案和一起令人难忘的性丑闻中那些精彩的宣传语和摆拍照片的解构，狄迪恩揭示了美国政治的运作机制。她向我们讲述了关于我们投票方式、我们投票支持的候选人以及那些鼓动我们投票给他们的人的令人不安的真相。这些文章层层递进，构成了一幅令人不安的美国政治图景，为我们理解民主制度提供了不可或缺的读物。

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In these coolly observant essays, the iconic bestselling writer looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life."

Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the other, into a disturbing portrait of the American political landscape, providing essential reading on our democracy.

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.