《The Books in My Life》是New Directions Publishing Corporation出版的圖書，作者是Henry Miller
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780811201087
- 作者：Henry Miller
- 出版社：New Directions Publishing Corporation
- 出版時間：1969年10月1日
- 頁數：320
- 定價：USD 19.95
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking-but not Henry Miller. In this unique work, he gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind. Some ...(展開全部) Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking-but not Henry Miller. In this unique work, he gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind. Some of Miller's favorite writers are the giants whom most of us revere - authors such as Dostoevsky, Boccaccio, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Lao-Tse. To them he brings fresh and penetrating insights. But many are lesser-known figures: Krishnamurti, the prophet-sage; the French contemporaries Blaise Cendrars and Jean Giono; Richard Jeffries, who wrote The Story of My Heart; the Welshman John Cowper Powys; and scores of others. The Books in My Life contains some fine autobiographical chapters, too. Miller describes his boyhood in Brooklyn, when he devoured the historical stories of G. A. Henty and the romances of Rider Haggard. He tells of the men and women whom he regards as "living books": Lou Jacobs, W. E. B. Dubois, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and others. He offers his reminiscences of the New York Theatre in the early 1900's - including plays such as Alias Jimmy Valentine and Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model. And finally, in Miller's best vein of humor, he provides a satiric chapter on bathroom reading. In an appendix, Miller lists the hundred books that have influences him most. 亨利．米勒是美國文壇知名的情色懺悔大師，著有《北回歸線》等多部引人爭議的小說。《我一生中的書》是亨利．米勒的長年下來的閱讀筆記。不同於有些作家，他們喜歡把影響他們思想形成的文學作品隱藏起來
