This provocative essay collection from Hustvedt, whose novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, draws insights from both the sciences and the humanities. Her title comes from her first section, 11 essays on individual artists , explorations of “the perceptual biases that affect how we judge art, literature, and the world in general” and her personal experience with psychoanalysis. The lengthy Delusions of Certainty section focuses on the mind/body split as perceived by thinkers from Descartes to Simone Weil to Stephen Pinker. She begins her concluding essays, which cover intriguing neurological disorders, with such questions as “What is a person, a self?” and “What is a mind?””
这部著作从科学和人性两个角度获取灵感。书的标题来自于该书的第一部分,该章节从11位艺术家入手,探讨认知偏见是如何影响我们对于艺术、文学和世界的整体认知的。The lengthy Delusions of Certainty章节则阐述思想家勒内·笛卡尔、西蒙娜·韦伊、史蒂文·平克关于心智与肉体分离的观点。最后的总结章节从复杂的精神紊乱入手,并提出了“人是什么,自我是什么,心智又是什么?”这样的疑问。
8.Chronicle of the Murdered House(作者:Lúcio Cardoso)
The setting and themes of this 1959 Brazilian novel by an author who was close to Clarice Lispector are “redolent of Faulkner”, writes Benjamin Moser in his introduction, “but its charm resides in the ways Lúcio marries those themes to what can only be called camp: as if Bette Davis had wandered, bewigged and in full makeup, into Yoknapatawpha.” His story, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Juli Costa and Robin Patterson, unfolds in a crumbling mansion in Minas Gerais, as the three remaining sons of the fading Meneses family – Valdo, Demetrio and Timoteo – struggle for dominance. The family’s secrets, many revolving around the arrival of Valdo’s seductive wife Nina, are revealed slowly through a series of documents – diaries, letters, confessions, and reports from the town doctor, pharmacist and priest. It’s a sensuous, bewitching tale, suspenseful to the last page.
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