【奶爸透析二期】村上君 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007)
美国作家Raymond Carver曾经写过短篇小说集What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,对于一贯喜欢美国文学的村上来说,这显然给了他写本书的灵感,至少从书名看是如此。
本想把豆瓣的简介复制+粘贴过来,但实在觉得太空洞、太无病、太呻吟,我无法在浑身鸡皮疙瘩的情况下完成此事。
干脆搬来英文版的有关简介和评论,也多给大伙一个亲近英文的机会。
说句题外话,刚刚看见中文版译者是“施小炜”,不禁让我想起林少华君,以及他翻译的《挪威的森林》、《舞舞舞》(我还记得他最早的译名是《跳跳跳》呢),两者都是我曾拜读两遍的大作,他们伴我度过了那些平淡、悠闲的大学时光。关于挪舞的有声版、以及村上君、林少华君更多美好回忆,会在日后和大家分享。
Synopsis
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and even more important on his writing.
Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.
By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.
Review
Murakami is neither a conventional novelist nor a conventional memoirist. In this work whose title was inspired by Raymond Carver's short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, he explores how running has shaped his life. The best memoirs inform readers and enlighten them; this memoir contains practical philosophy from a man whose insight into his own character, and how running both suits and shapes that character, is revelatory and can provide tools for readers to examine and improve their own lives. Murakami wrote most of it between 2005 and 2006, but a key chapter from 1996 reinforces his later examination of his own development and the cadence of his life. This book will be appreciated by runners (as well as Murakami's usual readership) because it is ostensibly about running, but anyone interested in the processes of writing and self-examination will also be well served by it. Highly recommended for all collections - Audrey Snowden - Library Journal
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - A Memoir
Publication: 2007
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Audiobook Publication: Blackstone Audio Inc, 2007
Length: 4h 23m, unabridged
Tracks: 10 chapters
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奶爸,,有audible吗?之前看了中文版,很喜欢,现在挑战英文和有声!!跪求呀!!
好可惜 链接失效了
幸好我保存了,终于有机会回报社会了
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太感谢您的分享咯~~!!谢谢谢谢!
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感谢啊!太棒了!还有活着的链接!
感谢啊
thx!!
好可惜 链接失效了
又没了。。
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谢谢~~楼上~~
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