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瞄了两眼the atlantic上的书评，半懂不懂的
介书雷版上应该有不少拥趸吧
Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that
began with the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses and ended with the
publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, two works that were arguably
“the sun and moon” of modernist literature, some would say of modernity
itself.
In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of
Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first
appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, “On all sides, and in
every field, there was a frenzy of innovation.” It is in 1922 that
Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus;
the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first
animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to
Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts,
Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat
diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the
sky was “blazing with a ‘constellation of genius’ of a kind that had
never been known before, and has never since been rivaled.”
Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries
of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers,
philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works
—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we
think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of
inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this
hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.
介书雷版上应该有不少拥趸吧
Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that
began with the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses and ended with the
publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, two works that were arguably
“the sun and moon” of modernist literature, some would say of modernity
itself.
In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of
Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first
appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, “On all sides, and in
every field, there was a frenzy of innovation.” It is in 1922 that
Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus;
the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first
animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to
Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts,
Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat
diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the
sky was “blazing with a ‘constellation of genius’ of a kind that had
never been known before, and has never since been rivaled.”
Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries
of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers,
philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works
—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we
think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of
inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this
hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.
