琼·狄迪恩作品集：回忆录与后期作品 Joan Didion

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 19 Nov. 2024

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 856 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1598537873

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598537871

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.46 x 3.1 x 20.78 cm

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书籍简介

狄迪恩作品全集以她晚期创作的杰出而令人难忘的作品收尾。

美国文库（Library of America）现已完成其权威的三卷本狄迪恩作品集，收录了这位当代较具震撼力的作家之一的七部作品：

《政治虚构》（2001）深入剖析了20世纪80年代、90年代和21世纪初的美国政治格局，其对“金句”、作秀以及日益失灵的政治体制的反思，至今仍具有令人警醒的现实意义。

《固定观念》（2003）在本合集中重新出版，记录了布什政府在9·11事件后“在旧有的国内战争中开辟新天地”的种种努力。

《我来自哪里》（2003）探索了狄迪恩故乡加利福尼亚阳光灿烂的神话和阴暗的现实，她的个人回忆与对水资源战争、性侵犯、大规模监禁和企业腐败的描绘交织在一起。 《奇想之年》（2005）为狄迪恩赢得了美国国家图书奖，也为她赢得了众多新读者。书中记录了丈夫约翰·格雷戈里·邓恩去世以及女儿昆塔娜罹患绝症的双重打击。回顾长达四十年的婚姻，她直面悲痛的深渊，“直到我们抵达那里，才会发现它的存在”。

《奇想之年：戏剧版》（2007）是狄迪恩根据回忆录改编的备受赞誉的戏剧作品。

《蓝色之夜》（2011）是狄迪恩在绝望中寻求慰藉的真挚而令人难忘的作品。

《南方与西部》（2017）回顾了狄迪恩早年幸福时光的笔记，回忆了她与丈夫在美国南部的一次公路旅行以及20世纪70年代的加利福尼亚。

这里收录了琼·狄迪恩在其非凡职业生涯的最后几十年里创作的令人心碎的美丽回忆录和精湛的报道与观察作品集。

The ultimate Didion edition concludes with the brilliant and haunting works from her incomparable late phase.

Library of America now completes its definitive, three-volume edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with the final seven books:

Political Fictions (2001) offers a behind-the-scenes look at the American political landscape of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, its reflections on sound bites, photo ops, and an increasingly dysfunctional system still bracingly relevant.

Fixed Ideas (2003), restored to print in this collection, traces the efforts of the Bush administration to "stake new ground in old domestic wars" in the wake of 9/11.

Where I Was From (2003) explores the sunny myths and darker realities of Didion's native California, her personal recollections interwoven with sketches of water wars, sexual predators, mass incarceration, and corporate corruption.

The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), which brought Didion the National Book Award and legions of new readers, registers the shock of the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, amid her daughter Quintana's ultimately terminal illness. Looking back on her marriage of four decades, she faces the abyss of a grief that "turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it."

The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play (2007) is Didion's lauded dramatic adaptation of the memoir.

Blue Nights (2011) is Didion's raw and haunting search for consolation amid despair.

South and West (2017) revisits Didion's notebooks from a happier time, recalling a roadtrip with her husband through the American South, and 1970s California.

Here are the achingly beautiful memoirs and masterful collections of reportage and observation with which Joan Didion crowned the final decades of her extraordinary career.

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。

大卫·L·乌林是多部著作的作者或编者，其中包括《人行道漫步：与洛杉矶和解》（Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles）、荣获加州图书奖的美国文库出版的《洛杉矶写作：文学选集》（Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology）以及《阅读的失落艺术：动荡时代的书籍​​与抵抗》（The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time）。他曾任《洛杉矶时报》图书编辑和书评人，目前在南加州大学任教。

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.

David L. Ulin is the author or editor of numerous books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles; the Library of America's Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award; and The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. The former book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times, he teaches at the University of Southern California.