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小說家的13堂課
為了釐清「小說是什麼」這件事，王安憶在上海復旦大學開設了13堂課，講稿集結為《小說家的13堂課》一書。
王安憶在第一堂課中開宗明義地將小說命名為「心靈世界」。它雖然出自一個人的經驗而帶有片面性，同時也未預設任何的實用功能；它有自己的規則、性質、發生的原因、發展的邏輯，以及它自己的歸宿與結局，構成一個世界；它不是我們現存實際世界的對應或翻版，它是一個另外存在的、獨立的世界，儘管它必須以現存實際世界的語言與事物作為材料，用以堆砌、建築出來。
接著王安憶帶領讀者進入王蒙及昆德拉的處女作（王安憶定義為創作者的第一個階段的作品）《組織部新來的青年人》與《玩笑》，深入分析心靈世界的初創階段，指導讀者領略由純粹感性所顯示的創造力的自由狀態。中間八章從兩部當代大陸作家作品(張承志《心靈史》、張煒《九月寓言》)，一部中國古典作品《紅樓夢》，以及五部西方作品(雨果《鐘樓怪人》、扥爾斯泰《復活》、羅曼‧羅蘭《約翰‧克利斯朵夫》、艾蜜麗‧勃朗特《咆嘯山莊》、賈西亞‧馬奎斯《百年孤寂》)，鞭辟入裡地評析了小說的創作動機與途徑；最後三章則從創作論及鑑賞論兩個角度，對小說藝術中的情節、語言及情感課題做了結語。
王安憶在第一堂課中開宗明義地將小說命名為「心靈世界」。它雖然出自一個人的經驗而帶有片面性，同時也未預設任何的實用功能；它有自己的規則、性質、發生的原因、發展的邏輯，以及它自己的歸宿與結局，構成一個世界；它不是我們現存實際世界的對應或翻版，它是一個另外存在的、獨立的世界，儘管它必須以現存實際世界的語言與事物作為材料，用以堆砌、建築出來。
接著王安憶帶領讀者進入王蒙及昆德拉的處女作（王安憶定義為創作者的第一個階段的作品）《組織部新來的青年人》與《玩笑》，深入分析心靈世界的初創階段，指導讀者領略由純粹感性所顯示的創造力的自由狀態。中間八章從兩部當代大陸作家作品(張承志《心靈史》、張煒《九月寓言》)，一部中國古典作品《紅樓夢》，以及五部西方作品(雨果《鐘樓怪人》、扥爾斯泰《復活》、羅曼‧羅蘭《約翰‧克利斯朵夫》、艾蜜麗‧勃朗特《咆嘯山莊》、賈西亞‧馬奎斯《百年孤寂》)，鞭辟入裡地評析了小說的創作動機與途徑；最後三章則從創作論及鑑賞論兩個角度，對小說藝術中的情節、語言及情感課題做了結語。
285 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2002
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About the author
Wang Anyi
87 books56 followersWang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan(茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road." As a result of the Cultural Revolution, she was not permitted to continue her education beyond the junior high school level. Instead, at age fifteen, she was assigned as a farm labourer to a commune in Anhui, an impoverished area near the Huai River, which was plagued by famine.
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
Transferred in 1972 to a cultural troupe in Xuzhou, she began to publish short stories in 1976. One story that grew out of this experience, "Life In A Small Courtyard", recounts the housekeeping details, marriage customs, and relationships of a group of actors assigned to a very limited space where they live and rehearse between their professional engagements.
She was permitted to return home to Shanghai in 1978 to work as an editor of the magazine "Childhood". In 1980 she received additional professional training from the Chinese Writer's Association, and her fiction achieved national prominence, winning literary award in China.
Her most famous novel, The Everlasting Regret (长恨歌), traces the life story of a young Shanghainese girl from the 1940s all the way till her death after the Cultural Revolution. Although the book was published in 1995, it is already considered by many as a modern classic.
Wang is often compared with another female writer from Shanghai, Eileen Chang, as both of their stories are often set in Shanghai, and give vivid and detailed descriptions of the city itself.
A novella and six of her stories have been translated and collected in an anthology, "Lapse of Time". In his preface to that collection, Jeffrey Kinkley notes that Wang is a realist whose stories "are about everyday urban life" and that the author "does not stint in describing the brutalising density, the rude jostling, the interminable and often futile waiting in line that accompany life in the Chinese big city".
In March 2008, her book The Song of Everlasting Sorrow was translated into English.In 2011, Wang Anyi was nominated to win the "Man Booker International Prize."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Anyi
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