Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
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发明真相：回忆录的艺术与工艺
DOI：
10.2307/4611853
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发表时间：
1995
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
W. Zinsser
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作者：
Russell Baker;W. Zinsser
这是一本不可或缺的书，作者们亲身经历了撰写回忆录的回报和挑战。任何从事回忆录写作的人都知道，过去的事件、记忆和情感往往会抵制一本书的有序结构。《发明真相》提供了九位著名回忆录作者的智慧，讲述了他们的创作过程（伊恩·弗雷泽（Ian Frazier）翻阅了几代人的家庭文件，以了解他父母的生活），他们面临的障碍（安妮·迪拉德（Annie Dillard）解决了回忆录的核心困境：放什么进去，去掉什么），以及将他们的过去带到页面上的意想不到的乐趣。特色作者包括罗素贝克的“成长”;吉尔克尔康威的“从库兰之路”;安妮迪拉德的美国童年;伊恩弗雷泽的家庭;小亨利路易斯盖茨。有色人种;阿尔弗雷德·卡津在《城市中的步行者》中;弗兰克·麦考特在《安吉拉的灰烬》中;托尼·莫里森在《宠儿》中;艾琳·辛普森在《青年诗人》中。""
An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. "Inventing the Truth" offers wisdom from nine notable memoirists about their process (Ian Frazier searched through generations of family papers to understand his parents' lives), the hurdles they faced (Annie Dillard tackles the central dilemma of memoir: what to put in and what to leave out), and the unexpected joys of bringing their pasts to the page. Featured authors include Russell Baker on "Growing Up"; Jill Ker Conway on "The Road from Coorain"; Annie Dillard on An American Childhood; Ian Frazier on Family; Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Colored People; Alfred Kazin on "A Walker in the City"; Frank McCourt on "Angela's Ashes"; Toni Morrison on "Beloved"; and Eileen Simpson on "Poets in Their Youth.""