Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde

一本全新的傳記，“書籍建築”通過他的書籍品味探索了奧斯卡王爾德的思想和個性

托馬斯賴特花了20年的時間閱讀王爾德的圖書館，為這幅深刻吸引人的肖像核心提供了知識分子和情感上的氣氛。

本書最令人驚喜的驚喜之一是作者閱讀Wilde圖書館的冒險故事。讓人想起喬治路易斯博格斯的小說英雄，他通過在16世紀的西班牙文化中自己進入塞萬提斯的思想，賴特僱用王爾德作為他自己的維吉尼亞世界指南文學。

An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books

This intimate account of Oscar Wilde’s life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life’s pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde’s library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait.

One of the book’s happiest surprises is the story of the author’s adventure reading Wilde’s library. Reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges’s fictional hero who enters Cervantes’s mind by saturating himself in the culture of sixteenth-century Spain, Wright employs Wilde as his own Virgilian guide to world literature. We come to understand how reading can be an extremely sensual experience, producing a physical as well as a spiritual delight.

    Thomas Wright   (Autor)  

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co 

ISBN:   978-0805089936 

 原價   US:27  台幣價:945