我最喜欢的书

Nathan E.，21岁

学生

新泽西州普林斯顿市

Nathan的书柜

1.《爱丽丝梦游仙境》，刘易斯·卡罗尔（Lewis Carroll）著
这是我儿时最喜欢的书之一，后来，我很开心能表演这个故事改编的芭蕾舞剧。我永远也忘不了书中人物的怪念头和主人公爱丽丝的胆识。它是最早的教会我语言本身也可以有趣味的书之一。

2.《美丽新世界》，奥尔德斯·赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley）著
我是在高中的科幻小说课上读到这本小说的，我喜欢科幻小说这种体裁已经好多年了。这本书描绘了一个反乌托邦，统治它的不是恐惧，而是用邪恶和喜悦— 我发现这种观点特别令人信服。这本书里提到其它推荐书目的地方格外有趣。

3.《到灯塔去》，弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（Virginia Woolf）著
这本书是我在大学修完第一批课后得到的，那年夏天在哥斯达黎加工作时读的。书中的叙事确实独特，大部分都在描述时间在一天中非常缓慢地流逝，但故事的中段极快地跨越了10年的时光。

4.《护身符》，罗贝托·波拉尼奥（Roberto Bolaño）著
我是在一堂拉美比较文学课上第一次读到这本短篇小说的，我被书中新颖的故事折服了。该小说讲述了一个虚构的故事，一位女诗人被困在了一所大学的浴室里，当时正值1968年墨西哥军队入侵。不过，这可不是传统意义上的戏剧。小说里几乎没有对话，尽是想像。这本书让我明白写书不止一种方法— 而且被一本书打动的方法则还有更多。

5.《艾米·克兰皮特诗集》
艾米·克兰皮特（Amy Clampitt，生于爱荷华州）是我最喜欢的诗人之一，我也经常翻阅她的诗集。我喜欢她的地方在于，她在63岁的时候（1983年）发表了自己的第一本足本的诗集，这也让我对自己的写作有了希望。她的诗歌是那种精美的叙事体，而这种诗体可能很容易就被很多美国人忽视，里面还有很多我必须频繁去查的单词和典故。

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My Favorite Books

Nathan E., 21

Student

Princeton, New Jersey

1. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This is one of my favorite books from childhood, which I later had the pleasureof performing in the form of ballet. I will never forget the whimsy of thecharacters, and the audacity of Alice, the main character. It is one of thefirst books that taught me the fun that could be had with language.

2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
I read this in high school for a class on science fiction, a genre I have lovedfor many years. This book depicts a dystopia governed not by fear but by viceand delight—a perspective I found especially compelling. The references toother books of canon are especially fun.

3. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
This is a book I was given upon completion of one of my first university courses.I read it that summer while working in Costa Rica. The narrative is trulyunique, where for the most part of the book time passes very slowly over thecourse of a day, but for the middle part the story covers a ten-year periodvery quickly.

4. Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
I first read this short book in a comparative literature class on Latin America,and was blown away by the freshness of its story. It tells the fictional storyof a female poet stuck in a bathroom of a university as the Mexican army invadedit in 1968. But it is no drama in the traditional sense. With little dialogueand much imagination, this novel taught me that there is more than one way towrite a book—and many more ways to be emotionally moved by one.

5. The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
Amy Clampitt (born in Iowa) is one of my favorite poets, and the collection ofher poems is one I thumb through often. What I love about her is that shepublished her first full-length book of poems in 1983 -- at the age of 63 -- whichgives me hope for my own writing. Her poems are elaborate, beautiful narrativesof what might easily be passed up by many Americans, with many words andallusions I must often lookup.

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