Otherwise Known as the Human Condition读书介绍

Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer’s expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage.

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition collects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist’s commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.

【杰夫·戴尔Geoff Dyer】

1958年出生于英国切尔滕纳姆, 被《每日电讯报》称为“很可能是当今最好的英国作家”。他的写作风格极其独特，涉及音乐、摄影、电影等多个领域，并将小说、游记、传记、评论、回忆录等体裁融为一体，形成了奇异而迷人的“杰夫·戴尔文体”。其主要作品包括小说《寻找马洛里》《杰夫在威尼斯，死亡在瓦拉纳西》，跨文体作品《然而，很美：爵士乐之书》（获毛姆文学奖）、《一怒之下：与D.H.劳伦斯搏斗》（入围美国国家书评人协会奖）、《懒人瑜伽》（获W.H.史密斯最佳旅行书籍奖）、《此刻》（获国际摄影中心摄影写作奖）、《白沙：来自外部世界的经历》等。2005年入选英国皇家文学学会，2006年获得由美国艺术文学院颁发的E.M.福斯特奖。他的作品已被翻译成24种语言。

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