AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MYSELF
Book ID/图书代码： 03635014B73062
English Summary/英文概要： LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014
‘Nothing wilfully invented. Memory invents unbidden.’
The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury, where he was brought up, had two industries: God and the Cold War, both of which provided a cast of adults for the child to scrutinise – desiccated God-botherers on the one hand, gung-ho chemical warriors on the other. The title is grossly inaccurate. This book is, rather, a portrait of a disappeared provincial England, a time and place unpeeled with gruesome relish.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 该书入围了2014年的塞缪尔约翰逊奖。
“没有蓄意的编造。记忆不请自来。”
十九世纪五十年代没有灰色。在乔纳森•米德详细，层次分明的回忆录中它是耀眼的和多面的。充斥着怨恨的畸人，冒充的上层人，恶毒的老处女，鲁莽的波希米亚人，自大的莽汉和自杀者。死亡随处可见。在他长大的地方索尔兹伯里有两个行业：上帝和冷战，两者都为儿童提供了可供细看的成年人——一手拿着风干的传教士，一手拿着雄心壮志的化学战士。书名其实非常不准确。这本书更应该是一个消失的粗野的英格兰的肖像，一个可怕阴森的时期和地点。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：乔纳森•米德最新的书《没有围墙的博物馆》被七位评论家评为年度图书。他曾以明信片的形式出版了一组照片“洋泾照片”。他的新电影“有形的诗”受到了粗野主义的赞美，并将于2014年三月在BBC4上发送。
‘Meades [is] an original in the best sense of combining deep knowledge and keen observation with a genuinely individual viewpoint … The richness of vocabulary is as pleasurable as his honesty is bald … The era is wonderfully reconstructed, the words so impastoed that everywhere you can feel the grain of times … By far the best picture of the 1950s I have read’ George Walden, The Times
‘If this book is thought of less as a memoir than as a symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness – well, then it is a masterpiece … Meades is a sort of apocalyptic John Betjeman, and the descriptions here rank with the late poet laureate’s eye for detail and nose for nostalgia’ Roger Lewis, Financial Times
About the Author/作者介绍： 乔纳森•米德最新的书《没有围墙的博物馆》被七位评论家评为年度图书。他曾以明信片的形式出版了一组照片“洋泾照片”。他的新电影“有形的诗”受到了粗野主义的赞美，并将于2014年三月在BBC4上发送。Jonathan Meades’s most recent book ‘Museum Without Walls’ was selected as a book of the year by seven critics. He has since published a box of photos in postcard form, ‘Pidgin Snaps’. His new films ‘Concrete Poetry’ are in praise of brutalist architecture and will be transmitted on BBC4 in March 2014.
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