IMAGINATION IN PLACE
Book ID/图书代码： 07633010B34985
English Summary/英文概要： A writer who can imagine the “community belonging to its place” is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired-to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is “local, fully imagined, becomes universal,” and the “local” is to know one’s place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill “a practical respect for what is there besides ourselves.”
In IMAGINATION IN PLACE, we travel to the local cultures of several writers important to Berry’s life and work, from Wallace Stegner’s great West and Ernest Gaines’ Louisiana plantation life to Donald Hall’s New England, and on to the Western frontier as seen through the Far East lens of Gary Snyder. Berry laments today’s dispossessed and displaced, those writers and people with no home and no citizenship, but he argues that there is hope for the establishment of new local cultures in both the practical and literary sense.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一个可以想象适得其所的社区的作家可以运用他的学识和公民身份来达成目的。文黛儿•贝瑞（ Wendell Berry ）就是这样一个期望忠实呈现本国本地风土人情的作家。对贝瑞而言，何谓“本土风味尽可能的想象成风靡全球”，“当地特色”意即了解一个地方，恣意想象驰骋并且逐渐灌输给自身以外的人群。
本书带领我们畅游对贝瑞人生和工作影响深远的几位作家的本土文化，包括华莱士•斯泰格纳（Wallace Stegner）的大西部、厄内斯特•盖恩斯（Ernest Gaines）路易斯安那种植园的生活，多纳德•郝（Donald Hall）的新英格兰以及盖瑞•西德（Gary Snyder）远东镜头下的西部边界。贝瑞为今日那些作家和那群无家无公民身份流离失所的人而痛惜，但是他仍然怀抱希望不论是现实还是文学意义上为他们建筑新的本土文化。(XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：所获褒奖：
基督教箴言报（The Christian Science Monitor）：随着本土食物运动的开展，以及对郊区扩张的增势，贝瑞长久以来的理念蓄势待发。
基督教箴言报（The Christian Science Monitor）：本书对那些贝瑞道德迷以及争辩当代社会批评文章，是进一步对话的好时机。
Wendell Berry’s latest collection of essays entitled, Imagination in Place, is one part celebration of life on the family farm, which he has consistently tended for years in his native Kentucky, and one part homage to a community of writers that have nourished his own imagination. Berry, as his frequent readers know, speaks in the tradition of the ancient prophets, cautioning his contemporaries of the dehumanizing consequences of our unbridled consumption and inattention to local environments. Like the prophets, he is tempting easy to ignore as crazy, out of touch with modern life.
Berry speaks often of the importance of place; in particular, in this volume, he is concerned with the relationship between local context and his fiction writing. He reflects on how he and other authors have been influenced by their rootedness in the agrarian South.
While it may seems at times that Berry indulges a romantic idealization of agrarian life, he is really more interested in people living in deep connection and awareness of the uniqueness of the place where they are. He is opposed to abstraction, which is so prevalent in our world today, whether in the world of literature, religion, or politics. It is the particularity of daily life that interests Berry and that has been a staple of his writing. This particularity lends itself not to the cult of simplicity, but rather to what he terms “complexification.”
When I am called, as to my astonishment I sometimes am, a devotee of “simplicity” (since I live supposedly as a “simple farmer”), I am obliged to reply that I gave up the simple life when I left New York City in 1964 and came here. In New York I lived as a passive consumer, supplying nearly all my needs by purchase, whereas here I supply many of my needs from this place by my work (and pleasure) and am responsible besides for the care of the place…. It is the complexity of the life of a place uncompromisingly itself, which is at the same time the life of the world, of all Creation (12).
New Review: http://hillhurstreview.com/2011/02/19/imagination-in-place/
About the Author/作者介绍： 文黛儿•贝瑞（ Wendell Berry ）写过的诗集、小说、论文加起来有40多本。他最近刚因其出色的南方文字被授予了克林斯·布鲁克斯奖章（Cleanth Brooks Medal ）和路易斯•布朗姆菲尔德社会奖（Louis Bromfield Society Award）。他和妻子住在肯塔基州，经营农场维生。Wendell Berry is the author of more than forty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has recently been awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Excellence in Southern Letters and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. He lives and farms with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Kentucky.
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