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Series · 7 books · 2010-2020

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The Abundance

Narrative Essays Old and New

2016

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself “Annie Dillard’s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event.”—Marilynne Robinson, Washington Post Book World “Annie Dillard is, was, and will always be the very best at describing the landscapes in which we find ourselves.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Annie Dillard is a writer of unusual range, generosity, and ambition... Her prose is bracingly intelligent, lovely, and human. ”—Margot Livesey, Boston Globe “A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers, having been “re-framed and re-hung,” with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon. The Abundance reminds us that Dillard’s brand of “novelized nonfiction” pioneered the form long before it came to be widely appreciated. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life—a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through neighborhood streets, a teenager memorizes Rimbaud’s poetry—with beauty and irony, inviting readers onto sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, with a sense of on one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar. Reminding us of the indelible contributions of this formative figure in contemporary nonfiction, The Abundance exquisitely showcases Annie Dillard’s enigmatic, enduring genius, as Dillard herself wishes it to be marked.
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این هم مثالی دیگر

چهار جستار از حقایق روزمره زندگی

2017

کتاب این هم مثالی دیگر دربردارندۀ چهار جستار کوتاه از دیوید فاستر والاس است؛ یکی از خلاق‌ترین نویسندگان معاصر آمریکا که به خاطر ارجاعات بی‌شمارش به فرهنگ عامه و رسانه‌ها شناخته می‌شود. والاس در این روایت‌ها اتفاقات ساده و پیش‌پاافتادۀ زندگی را بهانه می‌کند تا به حقایق پنهان و لایه‌های زیرین زندگی دست یابد. او با زبانی پیچیده و طنز به خواننده نشان می‌دهد که چطور می‌توان به معنای زندگی پی برد و پیش از مرگ خود را شناخت.
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اگر حافظه یاری کند

2020

تبعید هر آدمی را، به‌خصوص هر نویسنده‌ای را، دو پاره می‌کند؛ یک پاره گذشته‌ای است که با زبان خودت به آن فکر می‌کردی و بخشی از هویت توست و دیگری اکنونی که در آن سرگشته و با لکنت می‌کوشی زندگی کنی و به یاد آوری. جوزف برودسکی، برنده‌ی نوبل ادبیات سال ۱۹۸۷، در چنین جایی ایستاده است. او هر چند زندگی‌اش حتی در تبعید هم به روسیه گره خورده بود، هیچ‌ وقت حکومت شوروی را نپذیرفت؛ هر چند به آمریکا رفت، اسیر غرب‌گرایی نشد؛ هر چند می‌گفت به زبان روسی تعلق دارد، به انگلیسی نوشت. همین بی‌درکجایی بود که سکوی پرش جستارهایش شد، تا در زبان جدید از چنگال بی‌رحم خاطرات نجات یابد و بتواند باز به چنگ‌شان بیاورد، تا خانه‌ای نو برای خودش بسازد: این بار درون زبانی تازه، با خشت ادبیات، زیر سقف حافظه‌ای نویافته.
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البته که عصبانی هستم

2018

دوبراوکا اوگرشیچ نویسنده‌ای یوگسلاو است. بعدِ تجزیه‌ی یوگسلاوی، هویت ملی‌اش به یغما رفت و برای کروات‌شدن زیر فشار قرار گرفت. چرا؟ چون زاگرب خانه‌اش بود. وقتِ تصمیم‌گیری بود: آیا هویت تازه‌اش را می‌پذیرفت؟ آیا به نبردِ تفوقِ کرواسی می‌پیوست؟ آیا از فرصت استفاده می‌کرد، بی‌صدا از کشور می‌زد بیرون و از نو در کشوری دیگر ریشه می‌دَواند؟ یا نه، می‌گفت «هر چه بادا باد! من یوگسلاو‌اَم!» اوگرشیچ از همین دسته‌ی هر چه بادا بادها بود. او قلمش را چون اسلحه‌ای بالا گرفت، و علیه کسانی که برای ربودنِ هویت یوگسلاوش دست‌به‌یکی کرده بودند، اعلام جنگ کرد. اوگرشیچ به کرواتی می‌نویسد و به ترجمه‌ها برای معرفی آثارش به دنیای انگلیسی‌زبان بَسنده می‌کند. او در هیچ مصاحبه یا متنی اصرارش را به نوشتنِ صرف به زبان مادری توضیح نداده اما می‌شود با در نظر گرفتن مجموع آثار او اینطور برداشت کرد که نوشتن به زبانِ کرواتی مقاومت شخصی و همیشگی اوست در برابر انکار هویت یوگسلاوش. می‌توانند گذرنامه‌اش را بگیرند، لقب جادوگر بهش بدهند، مجبورش کنند حرفه‌اش را در کشورهایی دیگر ادامه بدهد اما نمی‌توانند زبانی را تغییر دهند که برای نوشتن انتخاب کرده. او شهروند ادبیات است و یک یوگسلاو که به کرواتی می‌نویسد. کتاب‌های او در کنار نویسندگانی صرب، بوسنیایی، اسلوونیایی و مقدونیه‌ای در قفسه‌ی کتاب‌های اسلاویک کتابخانه‌ها می‌مانند تا آخرین گواهی‌های به‌جامانده از یوگسلاوی‌ای باشند که روزگاری وجود داشت.
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Papeles falsos

2010

Valeria Luiselli is an evening cyclist; a literary tourist in Venice, searching for Joseph Brodsky’s tomb; an excavator of her own artifacts, unpacking from a move. In essays that are as companionable as they are ambitious, she uses the city to exercise a roving, meandering intelligence, seeking out the questions embed- ded in our human landscapes.
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درد که کسی را نمی‌کشد

2019

جستارهای کتاب درد که کسی را نمی‌کشد که پیش‌تر در نشریاتی مثل نیویورکر و مجله‌ی هارپر چاپ شده، به مسئله‌ی حفظ فردیت در فرهنگ جمعیِ پرسروصدا و مزاحم و پیچیدگی‌های آن اختصاص یافته است. فزنزن به جای افسردگی، انفعال و خالی کردن میدان، از پذیرش درد و خشم به منزله‌ی راهکاری شخصی برای مقابله با آسیب‌های مصرف‌گرایی، تکنولوژی، جنگ و دیگر تغییرات پرشتاب و ناگزیر زندگی امروزی استفاده می‌کند. به نظر او درد و عصبانیتی که آدمی را برای مقاومت در برابر این آسیب‌ها و یافتن راهکار مقابله با آن‌ها آماده می‌کند، بخشی از فرآیند طبیعی زندگی ماست.
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ماجرا فقط این نبود

2019

در کتاب ماجرا فقط این نبود سراغ زیدی اسمیت رفتیم که در کارنامه‌ی هنری‌اش رمان‌ها، جستارها و داستان‌کوتاه‌های درخشانی به چشم می‌خورد. او که متولد انگلستان است از سال۲۰۱۰ تا کنون در دانشگاه نیویورک نگارش خلاق تدریس می‌کند. متن‌های کتاب ماجرا فقط این نبود را از دو مجموعه‌جستار موفق زیدی اسمیت بر گزیدیم که در سال‌های ۲۰۰۹ و ۲۰۱۸ منتشر شده‌اند. اسمیت به داشتن دقتی منحصربه‌فرد درباره‌ی مسائل شخصی و فرهنگی و مواضع به دور از تعصبش نسبت به نژاد، مذهب و هویت فرهنگی شهرت دارد که فارغ از موضوع جستارهایش، متن‌های او را فهمیدنی و دل‌نشین می‌کند. در بررسی رخدادهای معاصر فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی همیشه ردپای پررنگی از تجربه‌ی شخصی‌اش به چشم می‌خورد. صمیمیت، صراحت و تیزبینی او در کنار زبان ادبی پرداخت‌شده‌اش، جستارهای او را در اوج ژورنالیسم و جستارنویسی ادبی نشانده. زیدی اسمیت با زبردستی تمام سبکی در جستارنویسی ادبی خلق کرده که هم‌زمان خوشایند و خردمندانه است. به گفته‌ی منتقدان، جستارهای او در زمره‌ی متون ادبی پروپیمان، هوشمندانه و خوش‌نمکی هستند که هم برای نویسنده‌ها و هم برای خواننده‌ها موهبتی کم‌نظیر به شمار می‌آیند. آنچه اسمیت را از بسیاری از نویسندگان موفق متمایز می‌کند، بی‌پروایی و شجاعتش برای تغییر موضع و تغییر نظر است و در بسیاری از نوشته‌هایش روایتی از تجربه‌های شخصی‌اش را با مخاطب در میان می‌گذارد تا به خودش و دیگران یادآوری کند که هیچ ‌وقت برای تغییر عقیده دیر نیست.

Authors

David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
Author · 47 books

David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. "I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today," he once said, "of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it." He wanted to write "stuff about what it feels like to live. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live." Readers curled up in the nooks and clearings of his style: his comedy, his brilliance, his humaneness. His life was a map that ends at the wrong destination. Wallace was an A student through high school, he played football, he played tennis, he wrote a philosophy thesis and a novel before he graduated from Amherst, he went to writing school, published the novel, made a city of squalling, bruising, kneecapping editors and writers fall moony-eyed in love with him. He published a thousand-page novel, received the only award you get in the nation for being a genius, wrote essays providing the best feel anywhere of what it means to be alive in the contemporary world, accepted a special chair at California's Pomona College to teach writing, married, published another book and, last month [Sept. 2008], hanged himself at age 46. -excerpt from The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky in Rolling Stone Magazine October 30, 2008. Among Wallace's honors were a Whiting Writers Award (1987), a Lannan Literary Award (1996), a Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction (1997), a National Magazine Award (2001), three O. Henry Awards (1988, 1999, 2002), and a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. More: http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw

Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Author · 28 books

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Visit www.zadiesmith.com for more information.

Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard
Author · 19 books

Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. (from Wikipedia)

Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli
Author · 11 books
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novels and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s. Some of her recent projects include a ballet libretto for the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, performed by the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center in 2010; a pedestrian sound installation for the Serpentine Gallery in London; and a novella in installments for workers in a juice factory in Mexico. She lives in New York City.
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
Author · 16 books

Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by FSG. His fourth novel, Freedom, was published in the fall of 2010. Franzen's other honors include a 1988 Whiting Writers' Award, Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996), the Salon Book Award (2001), the New York Times Best Books of the Year (2001), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2002). http://us.macmillan.com/author/jonath...

Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Author · 24 books
Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Бродский] was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and Mount Holyoke. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." A journalist asked him: "You are an American citizen who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American or a Russian?" Brodsky replied: "I'm Jewish; a Russian poet, an English essayist – and, of course, an American citizen." He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
Dubravka Ugresic
Dubravka Ugresic
Author · 17 books

Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in 1993 and was based in Amsterdam since 1996. She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer". Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar. She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In 1971 she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for children’s literature. Ugresic published two more books (Filip i Srecica, 1976; Kucni duhovi, 1988), and then gave up writing for children. As a literary scholar Dubravka Ugrešić was particularly interested in Russian avant-garde culture. She was a co-editor of the international scholarly project Pojmovnik ruske avangarde, (A Glossary of the Russian Avangarde) for many years. She rediscovered forgotten Russian writers such as Konstantin Vaginov and Leonid Dobychin, and published a book on Russian contemporary fiction (Nova ruska proza, 1980). She translated fiction into Croatian from Russian (Boris Pilnyak, Gola godina; Daniil Kharms, Nule i nistice), and edited anthologies of both Russian contemporary and avant-garde writing (Pljuska u ruci, 1989). Dubravka Ugrešić was best known in the former Yugoslavia for her fiction, novels and short stories: Poza za prozu, 1978; Stefica Cvek u raljama zivota, 1981; Zivot je bajka, 1983; Forsiranje romana reke, 1988. Her novel Forsiranje romana reke was given the coveted NIN-award for the best novel of the year: Ugrešić was the first woman to receive this honor. Croatian film director Rajko Grlic made a film U raljama zivota (1984) based on Ugrešić’s short novel Stefica Cvek u raljama zivota. Ugrešić co-authored the screenplay, as she did with screenplays for two other movies and a TV drama. In 1991, when the war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, Ugrešić took a firm anti-nationalistic stand and consequently an anti-war stand. She started to write critically about nationalism (both Croatian and Serbian), the stupidity and criminality of war, and soon became a target of the nationalistically charged media, officials, politicians, fellow writers and anonymous citizens. She was proclaimed a “traitor”, a “public enemy” and a “witch” in Croatia, ostracized and exposed to harsh and persistent media harassment. She left her country of origin in 1993. Dubravka Ugrešić continued writing since she began living abroad. She published novels (Muzej bezuvjetne predaje, Ministarstvo boli) and books of essays (Americki fikcionar, Kultura lazi, Zabranjeno citanje, Nikog nema doma). Her books have been translated into more then twenty languages. Dubravka Ugrešić has received several major European literary awards. In 2016, Ugrešić won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. On March 17th of 2023, one of Europe's most distinctive essayists, Dubravka Ugrešić, died in Amsterdam at the age of 73.

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