内容简介

　　本书是一部文学评论集，聚焦二十余位世界知名作家，其中既有简·奥斯丁、大仲马、福楼拜、狄更斯这样的经典作家，也有加缪、菲茨杰拉德、纳博科夫、菲利普·罗斯、多丽丝·莱辛、艾丽丝·门罗、石黑一雄、托卡尔丘克、麦克尤恩这样的现当代文学大家。

　　黄昱宁正是这些小说家所期待的理想读者，她秉持传统的细读方法，却不落窠臼，以细致入微的观察和别具一格的审美发掘小说细节的灵光闪耀之处，向读者揭示小说艺术的魅力。她的这些文字，自始至终，都从细节中来，往细节中去。

　　同时，在本书中，她又是一位极好的文学阅读领路人，以译者的天然优势、写作者的亲身体悟和评论家的敏锐透彻，游刃有余地穿梭于文学与现实、小说与评论之间。其细腻的感知、独到的见解、切中肯綮的分析，如一个个通往文学密林的路标，引领读者进入深幽的文学世界。

　　作者简介

　　黄昱宁，生于上海，横跨翻译、出版、创作三界的全能型作者。翻译过F.S.菲茨杰拉德、亨利·詹姆斯、阿加莎·克里斯蒂、伊恩·麦克尤恩等多位知名作家的作品。著有小说集《八部半》，随笔评论集《一个人的城堡》《梦见舒伯特的狗》《阴性阅读，阳性写作》《变形记》《假作真时》等。2019年，其首部小说集《八部半》获第二届宝珀理想国文学奖首奖。

　　精彩书评

　　作者对细节的执着，意在躲避那种远离文本的空疏华丽，却并未因循“笨拙之踏实”的老旧传统。她的阅读像是以眼睛亲抚文本的肌肤，于是源自细节的灵感之光不期而至，启迪着想象与思索，最终让洞察和领悟抵达深邃与高远处。这是黄昱宁向经典作家致敬的独特方式，同时也成就了她自身的风格，不仅可被识别，而且令人钦佩而难忘。

　　——刘擎［学者、华东师大教授］

　　在这本书中，学习如何读小说：从细节、从细胞、从一瞬间、从一滴水感知世界的广大、生命的深微。黄昱宁是翻译家，翻译就是把一部小说重写一遍。在这本书中，她同时是一位理想读者或超级读者：好像那部小说就是她写的，甚至，关于一部小说，她比作者知道得更多。

　　——李敬泽［评论家、散文家，中国作协副主席］

　　黄昱宁外语专业出身，职业是外国文学编辑，业余时间翻译小说也写小说，她是我眼里的套娃。我喜欢她谈小说的调调，她读得实在是太多了。她的从容是拥有者的从容，她的开阔是心平气和的开阔。

　　——毕飞宇［茅盾文学奖得主，著有《推拿》《小说课》等］

　　每一篇文章都如同量体裁衣，体现着黄昱宁对每个作家各不相同的深情。

　　——张悦然［作家、《鲤》主编］

Content introduction
This book is a collection of literary reviews, focusing on more than 20 world-renowned writers, including classic writers such as Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Flaubert and Dickens, as well as modern and contemporary literary masters such as Camus, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tokarchuk and McEwan.

Huang Yuning is the ideal reader that these novelists are looking for. She adheres to the traditional method of close reading, but goes beyond the mold. With her meticulous observation and unique aesthetic, she explores the magic of the details of the novel and reveals the charm of the novel art to the readers. Her writings, from beginning to end, come from details and go to details.

At the same time, in this book, she is an excellent guide to literary reading, with the translator's natural advantages, the writer's personal understanding and the critic's keen clarity, and skillfully shuttle between literature and reality, fiction and criticism. Its delicate perception, unique insights, and immediate analysis, such as a road sign leading to the literary forest, lead readers into the deep literary world.

About the author
Huang Yuning, born in Shanghai, is a versatile writer who spans the three fields of translation, publishing and creation. He has translated works by F.S. Fitzgerald, Henry James, Agatha Christie, Ian McEwan and many other well-known authors. He is the author of a collection of stories "Eight and a half", a collection of essays and reviews "A Man's Castle", "Dreaming of Schubert's dog", "Feminine Reading, Masculine Writing", "Metamorphosis", "False time" and so on. In 2019, his first collection of novels, Eight and a Half, won the first prize of the second Blancper Republic Literature Award.

Wonderful book review
The author's dedication to detail is intended to avoid the kind of empty splendor that is far from the text, but does not follow the old tradition of "clumsy steadiness." Her reading is like touching the skin of the text with her eyes, so the light of inspiration from the details comes unexpectedly, inspiring imagination and thinking, and finally allowing insight and understanding to reach deep and high distances. This is Huang Yuning's unique way of paying tribute to classic writers, while at the same time creating her own style that is not only recognizable, but also admirable and memorable.

-- Liu Qing [Scholar, Professor of East China Normal University]

In this book, learn how to read fiction: from the details, from the cell, from the moment, from a drop of water to perceive the vastness of the world, the depth of life. Huang Yuning is a translator, and translation is to rewrite a novel. In this book, she is at the same time an ideal reader or a super-reader: as if she had written the novel, or even knew more about a novel than the author.

-- Li Jingze [critic, essayist, Vice President of Chinese Writers Association]

Huang Yuning is a foreign language major, a foreign literature editor by profession, and a novelist in her spare time. She is a matryoshka in my eyes. I like the way she talks about novels; she reads too much. Her calmness is the calmness of the owner, her openness is the calmness of the mind.

-- Bi Feiyu [MAO Dun Literature Prize winner, author of "Tuina", "Novel Lessons", etc.]

Each article is tailored to the individual, reflecting Huang Yuning's different affection for each writer.

-- Zhang Yueran [writer, Editor-in-Chief of Carp]