ON BORROWED WORDS: A MEMOIR OF LANGUAGE
Book ID/图书代码： 06560012B54463
English Summary/英文概要： Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans’s life, each of these has been the prominent and controversial scholar’s primary language. His family’s immigrant experience took them from Eastern Europe to the Jewish ghetto of Mexico City, which Stavans abandoned for Israel and subsequently the United States. In this rich memoir, the linguistic chameleon outlines his remarkable cultural heritage from his birth in politically fragile Mexico through his years as a student activist, a young Zionist in Israel, and a student of theology in New York to his career now as a noted academic and writer. Since survival has meant borrowing other people’s languages and pretending they were his own, Stavans offers a view of his journey from the perspective of words. Along the way, he introduces his remarkable family: his brother, a musical wunderkind; his father, a Mexican soap opera star; his grandmother who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Mexico in 1929. Masterfully weaving personal reminiscences with a provocative investigation into language acquisition and cultural code switching, On Borrowed Words is a memorable exploration of Stavans’s search for his place in the world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 意第绪语,西班牙语,希伯来语,和英语点缀了伊兰•斯塔文斯不同阶段的生活，它们都是该杰出且充满争议的学者的主要语言。他的家庭从东欧移民到墨西哥城的犹太区，随后斯塔文斯又前往以色列和美国。在这本丰富的回忆录中,语言变色龙斯文塔斯概括了自己获得非凡文化遗产的经历，从出生于政治动荡的墨西哥并多年参与学生活动、在以色列成为年轻的犹太复国者、在纽约学习神学、到成为知名学者和作家。
因为生存意味着借用别人的语言并假装那是自己的语言,斯塔文斯从语言的角度讲述了自己的经历。一路上,他介绍了自己非凡的家庭:他的哥哥是音乐神童；他的父亲是墨西哥肥皂剧明星；他的祖母于1929年自东欧移民墨西哥。《借来的语言》巧妙地将个人回忆与对语言习得、文化代码转换的刺激调查结合起来,是对斯塔文斯寻找容身之处的难忘探索。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 伊兰•斯塔文斯著有《西班牙裔状况》、《凯丁弗莱斯的谜语》、《单手钢琴家》和其它书籍，同时编写了《牛津丛书之犹太故事》、西班牙英语字典等书籍。他曾入围美国国家图书奖，并获古根海姆学者奖、拉丁裔文学奖和其它荣誉。 Ilan Stavans is the author of The Hispanic Condition, The Riddle of Cantinflas, and The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories as well as the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories and a dictionary of Spanglish, among other volumes. He has been a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Latino Literature Prize, among other honors.
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