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小说家的十三堂课
这本书有趣的地方在于它的形成是在大学课堂上，“小说家的十三堂课”指的不是“要成为小说家所必须上的十三堂课”或是“小说家去听的十三堂课”，而是上海复旦大学邀请作家王安忆驻校上课，透过课堂演讲资料的整理而产生这本书，对于大学的文学教育而言，它提供学院的文学理论与小说作者的实务经验得以碰撞的机会，另一方面，透过课堂的讲述，小说作者的创作观与教育观也得到彰显。
王安忆在这十三堂课中，阐释了几个主要观点，诸如：好小说都是好神话，小说有其自身的逻辑，而在小说独立的心灵世界中，作者必须用他的理性将他和人群不调和的情感创造出作品来，这些观点有绝大部分都来自既有的文学理论，尤其是写实小说的创作观点。而相较之下，马奎斯的魔幻写实小说《百年孤寂》的分析则不似其它作品精彩与精辟，从中，读者不难看出作者的偏好与专长。
王安忆在这十三堂课中，阐释了几个主要观点，诸如：好小说都是好神话，小说有其自身的逻辑，而在小说独立的心灵世界中，作者必须用他的理性将他和人群不调和的情感创造出作品来，这些观点有绝大部分都来自既有的文学理论，尤其是写实小说的创作观点。而相较之下，马奎斯的魔幻写实小说《百年孤寂》的分析则不似其它作品精彩与精辟，从中，读者不难看出作者的偏好与专长。
338 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2002
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About the author
Wang Anyi
87 books56 followersWang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan(茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road." As a result of the Cultural Revolution, she was not permitted to continue her education beyond the junior high school level. Instead, at age fifteen, she was assigned as a farm labourer to a commune in Anhui, an impoverished area near the Huai River, which was plagued by famine.
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
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