《书会说话》内容简介
《书会说话》收录了顾真近年来创作的三十篇围绕藏书与阅读、书与人的关系而写的随笔、评论,记录了编书、译书、藏书多年的作者对书籍装帧、版本和插图的考据心得。
梦想当文学家的戴斯蒙·麦卡锡为何靠给报刊撰稿糊口?
弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和霍加斯书局的历年收入是多少?
迪士尼改造过的“小熊维尼”形象与谢泼德的插画原作有什么区别?
大书商罗森巴哈如何让买家不由自主地相信,他手里的书就是比市面上别家的都好?
《书店日记》的作者肖恩·白塞尔竟称自己温顺友善,那是什么害他成了“毒舌店主”?
在出版史上产生重要影响的“书人”故事、妙趣横生的书林掌故、典丽非凡的古籍佳本、温暖人心的书痴缘分……顾真将书业的旧时光一点一点地搬运进了这本《书会说话》,并以隐含的内在联系编排,不同文章间仿佛小径相通的花园,为有心的读者提供了不同的游览路线。
作者简介
1988年出生于上海青浦,文学编辑、译者。译有《书店日记》《书店四季》《猎书人的假日》《万物变形记》等,兼作随笔、评论,文章散见于《澎湃·上海书评》《文汇报·笔会》《文汇学人》等。
The Book Can Talk
The Book Can Speak is a collection of thirty essays and commentaries created by Gu Zhen in recent years, which focus on the relationship between books and reading, books and people, and record the experience of authors who have compiled books, translated books, and collected books for many years on book binding, edition and illustration.
Why did Desmond McCarthy, who dreamed of becoming a writer, make a living by writing for newspapers?
How much did Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Book Bureau earn over the years?
How did Rosenbach, the big bookseller, convince buyers that his books were simply better than others on the market?
Sean Bethell, author of The Bookshop Diary, calls himself meek and friendly, so what makes him a "snarky shopkeeper"?
The "book people" stories that have an important influence in the history of publishing, the interesting stories of the book forest, the excellent ancient books of extraordinary beauty, and the warm love of the book lovers...... Gu Zhen carries the old time of the book industry into this book Can Talk bit by bit, and arranges it with the implicit internal connection, which is like a garden of paths between different articles, providing different tour routes for the interested readers.
About the author
Born in 1988 in Qingpu, Shanghai, he is a literary editor and translator. Translated "Bookstore Diary", "Bookstore Four Seasons", "Book Hunter's Holiday", "All Things Metamorphosis", etc., as well as essays, reviews, articles scattered in "The Paper · Shanghai Review of Books", "Wen Hui Bao · Pen", "Wenhui Economist" and so on.