TORMENTED HOPE: NINE HYPOCHONDRIAC LIVES

Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B33563

English Summary/英文概要： Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 是疾病，還是才華？─「疑病症」患者的世界

你知道藝術家安迪‧沃荷Andy Warhol、鋼琴家顧爾德Glenn Gould、生物學家達爾文Charles Darwin及作家普魯斯特Marcel Proust等天才有什麼共同之處，除了都有天賦異稟的創作天分外，他們同樣都是「疑病症」(Hypochondriac)的患者，這個類似憂鬱症的心理疾病，在當下或許能靠藥物來控制，但在當時這群人雖然受控於對「疾病」的恐懼，卻也無形中刺激了他們潛在著創作靈感！
何謂「疑病症」，又叫「健康恐懼症」（health phobia），患者懼怕自己患有惡疾，把身體所有輕微病痛都看成重病的先兆，例如有一人年輕時雙親離世，此後幾十年一直感到自己也將會死去，每次覺得疲累、精神不集中時，都以為自己已經抱病，將不久於人世。 (Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：Rights Sold:
US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

It’s so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down.---Hilary Mantel Guardian Books of the Year

Excellent---Sunday Times

A brilliant series of portraits---Observer

Fascinating … Written with great elegance and shrewd understanding---William Boyd Guardian Books of the Year

Illuminating, humane and beautiful---Independent

Ingenious and intriguing---Guardian

A mini-masterpiece---Louise Carpenter Observer

Brian Dillon is a superbly careful writer. … [This book] will delight, move and horrify any of the millions of us who, like the late Spike Milligan, have at one time or another contemplated having “I told you I was ill” inscribed on our gravestones.---Sam Leith Daily Mail

Strangely delightful … Dillon’s book is constantly intelligent---Scotland on Sunday

You don’t need to be a hypochondriac to enjoy this series of discursive, insightful essays that are full of quirky details and fascinating anecdotes---Mail on Sunday

Illuminating---Philip Hoare Sunday Telegraph

“Dillon’s brimming volume . . . provides good company for the ceaselessly suffering imaginary-malady-struck.”---David Finkle, The Huffington Post

“An intriguing, suavely written blend of medical history and literary criticism, a book that adds to the growing (or metastasizing) field of pathological biography.”---Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times

“Dillon writes the sort of refined, slightly rarefied prose that might have once been called belletristic—an old-fashioned word for an old-fashioned but pleasant style. This balances out the freakish complaints and treatments undertaken by his subjects, and so The Hypochondriacs walks the line between voyeurism and thoughtfulness with considerable dexterity . . . What makes The Hypochondriacs fascinating is the ever-shifting spectacle it offers of human folly and ingenuity, and the revelation that it can be so hard to tell the two apart.”---Laura Miller, Salon

“Superb . . . Thought-provoking and gracefully written.”---Daphne Merkin, Bookforum

“[Dillon’s] nine case studies embrace writers and artists, thinkers and iconoclasts; they are full of insight and beautifully constructed, with a wealth of cultural reference and a breadth of imagination behind them.”---Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books

About the Author/作者介绍： Brian Dillon，1969年生於愛爾蘭都柏林。曾在許多刊物上如Frieze, TLS, Independent, New Statesman, Art Review, Modern Painters 及Cabinet發表過關於文學或視覺藝術的文章及專題報導。首部作品《In the Dark Room》贏得2006年「愛爾蘭作品非小說類獎」 (Irish Book Award for Non-Fiction)。目前住在英國的Canterbury。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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