Wandering in the pond in the rain

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

✨Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" | "Best English-Language Short Story Writer" | New York Times Bestselling Author No. 1
✨2017 Booker Prize | 2023 Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award | MacArthur Genius Grant | World Fantasy Award winner George Saunders 📚A stand-up literary class on reading, writing, and life 📚Over 600 applicants each year, only 6 accepted!
📚Russian master's classic reading and writing, Booker Prize winner's famous school lecture notes full of golden sentences————————
【Content Introduction】
✍🏻Does fiction writing follow a set of rules? Is every detail of a story predetermined by the author? Are the elements that draw us in, the elements that make us unable to extricate ourselves, the techniques or the emotions?
✍🏻 When it comes to creative writing, should we diligently study to master the rules and techniques involved, or should we listen more to our inner voice? Can we find our own creative path simply by imitating the styles of famous writers? And how should people reinterpret classic novels today?
✍🏻Wandering on the Rainy Pond is a collection of wise and humorous reviews carefully compiled by Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author George Saunders, based on his more than 20 years of experience teaching 19th-century Russian literature at Syracuse University.
📒In this book, Sanders deeply analyzes seven classic Russian short stories, including Chekhov's "In the Carriage", "The Baby", and "The Gooseberry", Turgenev's "The Singer", Tolstoy's "Master and the Servant" and "Alyosha the Broken Jar", and Gogol's "The Nose", guiding readers to explore the structure of short stories and distinguish the ingenious designs and inadvertent flashes of inspiration in the works.
📒In addition, there are three after-class activities at the end of the book: "Deletion Practice", "Upgrade Practice" and "Translation Practice", which encourage readers to stimulate their creative passion and try to pick up a pen.
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【Recommended by famous magazines】
✨Saunders is a distinguished figure in American literary history. ... In this book, he analyzes classic Russian short stories and explores the creative mechanisms of short stories. What is the importance of novels in this era? Saunders's answer is: Reading and understanding novels can be seen as a life skill, used to clarify our place in the world and seek the truth about things. —The Wall Street Journal
✨Saunders is best at discovering the moments of genius that writers often overlook. ... He is also an outstanding short story writer who knows that the key to a work lies not in the text but in the experience it creates for the attentive reader. - The Wall Street Journal

✨There's nothing easier than being Saunders's student. ... Saunders lives on the neural circuit—he pays attention to all the small, meaningful decisions that make a sentence, a paragraph, a compelling character. He has written one of the most insightful and beautiful portraits of a writer's inner world I've ever read. —The New York Times
✨Reading this book makes people feel happy, or you could say it is a book about pleasure. It is different from those books that teach people how to write creatively, and it is definitely not literary criticism. The greatest pleasure of reading this book is watching Saunders shuttle back and forth between the identity of author and reader. - The Guardian
Anyone familiar with Saunders's novels will recognize the professor's voice: he's witty, often with a stand-up comedic flair, and he's focused on providing surprises at every turn. In fact, Saunders believes that surprise may be the primary requirement of a great novel—it must disrupt and subvert our expectations. —The Washington Post
✨This master of contemporary fiction joyfully reviews some of the greatest literature of the 19th century. —Kirkus Reviews
✨This book is a perfect combination of teaching notes and literary criticism. ... You will be satisfied with Saunders' generous teaching and the classic works on which these teachings are based. -Publishers Weekly
✨The beauty of Sanders' teaching method is that he is completely non-judgmental when teaching. ... Sanders is a generous lecturer, and when reading this book, I felt like I was really participating in the class. Even if a story didn't resonate with me, Sanders' insights helped me appreciate it. - "Washington Independent Book Review"
✨(A) Hymn to Writers and Readers. —Oprah Daily
✨The unique "gift" of this book is that the author does not elevate herself above the reader. - The Boar Book Review

2024-10-01

浙江文艺出版社

KEY Culture

490

9787533976576