LITERARY RIVALS: FEUDS AND ANTAGONISMS IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Book ID/图书代码： 12100014B74650
English Summary/英文概要： Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as workers in any trade. Richard Bradford’s highly entertaining book looks at some of the closest and most complex relationships in literary history, as well as examining their dramatic effects on literature itself. Who was the object of Coleridge’s infatuation that drove a wedge between himself and Wordsworth? Where did Thackeray utter the single sentence that ended his tentative friendship with Dickens? Why did differing opinions lead to the cessation of letters between former confidants Amis and Larkin? How did Hemingway use and abuse Stein’s artistic circle in Paris? What American literary ambition spawned brutal competition between Capote and Vidal? From Tolstoy’s deferred duelling and Dostoevsky’s defamatory fiction, to J. C. Squire’s qualms with modernism and Salman Rushdie’s run-in with Islam, Literary Rivals is an enjoyable romp through the world of the fiercest writers rivalries and the most bizarre literary stand-offs.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小说家，诗人和剧作家们都经营着双重人生，他们一边和现实生活中的每个人过着一样的人生，一边将大量的时间花费在他们自己所构筑的浩淼宇宙之中。当他们与自己发生争执时，他们也可以像任何行业中的从业者一样激烈而直白的燃起心中的怒火与敌意。理查德•布拉福德这部极具娱乐性的书籍将聚焦文学史上最为亲密无间与复杂的关系，并与此同时探索其对于文学本身的戏剧性影响力。柯勒律治究竟是迷上了什么才与华兹华斯隔阂渐生？萨克雷是在怎样的环境中脱口而出了一句怎样的话语，从而终结了其与狄更斯那摇摆不定的友谊？相异的观点为何会导致曾经互为知己的艾米斯和拉金断了联络信函？海明威又是如何借用与滥用了斯坦因在巴黎的艺术家圈子的？美国文学的哪一项野心引发了卡波特和维达尔之间的残酷竞争？从托尔斯泰的延期决斗和思妥耶夫斯基的中伤小说作品，再到J•C•斯奎尔对于现代主义的谴责以及萨尔曼•鲁西迪与伊斯兰文化的争辩，《文敌》是一本欢乐的嬉闹之作，带你一览世界作家之间的激烈竞争以及最最诡异的文坛囧事。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：究竟有多少伟大的文学作品的诞生是基于对竞争对手的反击、模仿或是所创作的次要之作？这是一个十分复杂的问题。。。。。。理查德•布拉福德最值得表扬的莫过于其未曾逃避面对；我们并没有必要去喜欢看自己的最爱表现得十分不得体。。。。。。然而布拉福德除了为我们展现了这一次次争辩背后的真实赢家，更重要的是他还为我们呈现了这些文学胜利背后的重要性以及其为许多作家，尤其是那些自我意识只接受永恒的作家，留下了宝贵的遗产。----《The Independent on Sunday》
Just how many of the great literary works were replies to, or parodies of, lesser works by rivals? It’s an intriguing question... which Richard Bradford commendably doesn’t shirk from confronting; we don’t necessarily like to see our favourites behaving badly... What Bradford also exposes, apart from who the clear winners of these arguments are, is the importance of literary success, and legacy, to many writers, especially those whose egos fail to allow them to accept nothing less than immortality. --The Independent on Sunday
About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•布拉福德迄今已出版了二十五余部有关于文学和文化的各类书籍。其诗歌及相关作品被称为为韵律的本质提供了全新地开拓性的视角。近来，他出版了一系列文人传记，其中包括约翰•弥尔顿，金斯利•艾米斯，菲利普•拉金，阿兰•西利托以及马丁•艾米斯等。此外，布拉福德还就现阶段英国小说的现状出版了一本评论集，其书籍《莎翁裨益？》主要涉及我们如何评论文学作品的质量良莠，该书将于2015年由布拉克威尔出版社出版发行。作者在牛津大学、威尔士大学和都柏林三一学院担任学术教职，目前于奥斯特大学担任研究教授并于法国阿维尼翁大学担任客座教授。
Richard Bradford has published twenty-five books on various aspects of literature and culture. His work on poetry and poetics has been praised as offering new, groundbreaking perspectives on the nature of verse. More recently, he has specialised in literary biographies of writers such as John Milton, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe and Martin Amis. Bradford has also published an assessment of the current state of the British novel, and his book Is Shakespeare Any Good?, on how we evaluate the quality of literature, will be published by Blackwell in 2015. He has held academic posts at Oxford, the University of Wales and Trinity College, Dublin, and is currently Research Professor of English at the University of Ulster and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon.
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