The Lonely City
内容简介
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.
Humane, provocative and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art. It's a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.
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作者简介
Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and has received grants from the Arts Council and the Authors' Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, England.
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读书文摘
孤独的定义：因人类对亲密的需求未得到足够的释放，而产生的、令人极为不快的、强烈的感受。——哈利·斯塔克·沙利文，精神病学家、精神分析学家，1953 P18
孤独在其最典型的状态下，其本质决定了忍受着这种孤独的人无法将其表述出来。同样，与其他那些无法表述的情感体验相比，一个人无法通过共情与他人分享他的孤独。一个人所散发的孤独感会引发另一个人的焦虑，从而阻碍后者发挥其同理心。——福瑞达·弗罗姆-瑞茨曼，德，精神病学家 P20
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