CONSTELLATION OF GENIUS: 1922: MODERNISM YEAR ONE

Book ID/图书代码： 11320012B54637

English Summary/英文概要： Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding everything that realistic fiction and Georgian poetry held dear. It was the year which began with the publication of Ulysses and ended with the publication of The Waste Land: the most influential English-language novel of the century and the most influential English-language poem of the century. Despite several revolutions in taste, these two works remain the twin towers at the beginning of modern literature; some would say, of modernity itself. And it was the generous, indefatigable, discerning Ezra Pound who played a significant part in the launch of both writers’ careers.

Constellation of Genius puts the accomplishments of Eliot and Joyce in the context of the world in which their works appeared - a year of remarkable firsts, births, and foundations. The passing of an old world: the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the end of British Liberalism with the crushing defeat by the Conservatives at the General Election, the thwarting of Marcus Garvey’s dreams for a new Africa. Dada was put to rest, Proust died and Hollywood transformed the nature of fame, making Charlie Chaplin the most recognizable man on the planet. Hitchcock directed his first feature, Kandinsky and Klee joined the Bauhaus and Louis Armstrong took the train from New Orleans to Chicago heralding the beginning of modern jazz.

Gloriously entertaining, erudite and idiosyncratic, this is a biography of a year, a journey through the diaries of the anthropologists, actors, artists, dancers, designers, film-makers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians and scientists whose lives and works collided over twelve months, a frenzy of innovation which broke the world in two.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1922年，一個瘦弱窮酸的愛蘭人出版了他的宏圖巨 作。1922年，一個憤世嫉俗的美國人唱出動人心魂的詩歌。 他們是共同開創文化世界的新篇章，開始探索現實主義的小說家 和詩人。這兩個人是喬伊絲和艾略特。

1922年是天才湧現的年代。 這一年送走了舊世界：英國自由黨在大選中被保守黨以壓倒性優 勢打敗，達達主義消聲匿跡，普魯斯特去世，美國好萊塢把卓別 林捧成地球上最著名的喜劇大師、希區考克推出第一部電影、康 丁斯基和保羅•克利加入現代主義建築學校包浩斯、路易士‧阿姆 斯壯從紐奧良坐火車到芝加哥，展開現代爵士樂的篇章。

本書描繪這特殊一年的故事。透過人類學家、藝術家、演員、舞蹈家、設計師、電影製片人、哲學家、劇作家、政治家和科學家的日記，來洞察這與眾不同的文化盛年。(Celia)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Kevin Jackson曾為《紐約客》、《 Granta》、《Prospect》、《Sunday Times》、《Sunday Telegraph》、《衛報》、 《Vogue》、撰寫電影、攝影、現代藝術、文學、文化史等專欄。原本是一位劇本編輯顧問，在國家電影學院、皇家藝術學院、維多利亞和博物館任教，也為廣播電臺拍攝紀錄片，身兼導演及製作人。編撰多達20本書，熱衷文化、文學思想各界的動向。

Kevin Jackson has written thousands of articles, primarily on film, photography, modern art, literature and cultural history for, among others, The New Yorker, Granta, Prospect, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, Evening Standard and Vogue. He has been a script editor and script consultant, lectured and taught at the National Film Theatre, the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Musuem , presented documentaries for Radio 3 and Radio 4, directed and produced films for television, written the book and lyrics for a rock opera, curated film seasons and a photography exhibition as well as authored and edited more than twenty books.

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