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內容簡介 A Slate, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014 From across strange aeons comes the long-awaited annotated edition of “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale” (Stephen King). "With an increasing distance from the twentieth century…the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period’s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. ?Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of "incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates). In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.Over the course of his career, Lovecraft―"the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber)―made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction,"?Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization.Following his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep. 280 color illustrations
文學巨匠的殿堂:一部跨越世紀的經典選集 這部精心編纂的文學選集,匯集瞭自人類文明曙光以來,那些最具顛覆性、最富洞察力、最能觸及靈魂深處的文字。它並非僅僅是紙張與油墨的堆砌,而是一扇通往思想深淵的門戶,一座記錄人類精神演變軌跡的宏偉紀念碑。 本書的策劃理念在於構建一個“反烏托邦的脈絡與現實的解構”。我們旨在呈現那些挑戰既有世界觀、迫使讀者直麵存在的荒謬與宏大尺度的敘事。這份選目跨越瞭文學史上的關鍵節點,囊括瞭從早期寓言式批判到現代主義的結構性重塑,再到後現代對意義本身的消解過程。 第一捲:理性的黃昏與秩序的崩塌 本捲著重於探索人類心智在麵對不可名狀的力量或絕對的異化時所産生的心理反應。它收錄瞭奠定現代恐怖小說基石的早期作品,但其核心遠超“驚悚”範疇。 模塊一:異質性世界的入侵 我們收錄瞭一係列探討“他者”入侵與文化衝突的經典文本。這些故事深入剖析瞭當既有的社會結構、科學範式遭遇完全無法兼容的外部力量時,個體所經曆的認知失調。敘事手法上,作品多采用第一人稱的、帶有強烈偏執色彩的日記體或信函體,以模擬精神崩潰的臨界狀態。重點關注的議題包括:人類中心主義的破滅、符號係統的失效,以及在麵對無限尺度時的“渺小感”的文學錶達。 模塊二:夢境與清醒的邊界 此部分收錄瞭探索潛意識深層結構的敘事藝術。這些作品往往模糊瞭夢境與現實的界限,通過非綫性的敘事和錯位的意象,揭示瞭隱藏在日常錶象之下的潛在焦慮。選文強調對時間感知和空間結構的扭麯處理,展示瞭作傢如何利用文學的工具來模擬精神分析學派早期對“被壓抑的”心理內容的挖掘。 精選文本分析: 選入的一部19世紀末的代錶作,以其對“不潔”的、源自地下的、滲透性的腐敗的描繪,成為探討“內在汙染”主題的標杆。該文對環境、建築與人物命運之間糾纏關係的刻畫,至今仍被視為環境心理學的文學先驅。 第二捲:形而上學的拷問與人類的睏境 第二捲將焦點轉嚮更宏大的哲學命題,探討人類存在的意義、道德的相對性,以及技術進步可能帶來的異化。 模塊三:技術的雙刃劍與工具理性之弊 本捲包含瞭幾部對工業革命後期及早期信息社會發齣的深刻警告。這些文本並非簡單的反烏托邦,而是對“進步”概念本身進行質疑。作品通過構建高度專業化、但缺乏人性關懷的社會模型,探討瞭當效率成為至高美德時,藝術、情感和個體自由是如何被係統性地擠壓和邊緣化的。 關鍵主題: 勞動力的非人化(Dehumanization of Labor),信息過載導緻的意義貧瘠化(Semantic Satiation),以及構建完美的、因而必然壓抑個性的社會係統的內在悖論。 模塊四:神話的重建與失落的信仰 此部分深入探究瞭當代人在失去傳統信仰體係後,如何徒勞地在世俗世界中尋找新的、往往是怪誕的“崇拜對象”。選文對比瞭古典神話的內在邏輯與現代人自創的、基於恐懼或迷信的新的“信仰體係”。這裏的“神話”並非指古代故事,而是指那些被賦予瞭超越性力量的、世俗的、常常是虛構的概念或實體。 敘事特點: 這一模塊的文本往往具有史詩般的野心,但敘述視角卻異常微觀和個人化,形成一種強烈的張力。作品試圖迴答:在一個科學解釋瞭一切的時代,我們如何麵對那些科學無法解釋的、或反科學的體驗? 第三捲:語言的極限與敘事的自我反思 第三捲將目光轉嚮文學作為一種媒介本身,探討語言和敘事結構在傳達復雜真實性時的局限性與可能性。 模塊五:不可言說之物的錶達 此模塊匯集瞭對“不可描述體驗”的文學化嘗試。作傢們通過極度風格化的語言、破碎的句法和大量的新造詞匯,試圖打破傳統語言的承載極限。這裏的“不可言說”並非指神秘主義的緘默,而是指那種超越現有詞匯係統、對人類感官和認知結構構成挑戰的體驗。 修辭策略分析: 選文大量運用瞭疊層敘事(Palimpsest Narratives)和遞歸結構(Recursive Structures),迫使讀者在閱讀過程中不斷地重新評估他們剛剛接收到的信息,從而模仿體驗“真相”時思維被衝擊的過程。 模塊六:批評的聲音與文學的迴響 本捲的收官部分,精選瞭幾篇對文學本身進行元批評的文本。這些作品以高度的自我意識(Self-Awareness)解構瞭小說的傳統結構,例如對“作者之死”概念的早期探索,以及對角色、情節和背景設定進行戲仿(Parody)和顛覆的嘗試。它展示瞭文學如何從被動記錄者轉變為主動批判者,質疑文學作為一種記錄曆史或傳遞真理的工具的有效性。 結語: 本書選材的嚴謹性,在於其對“文學革新”的堅持。每一篇選文都代錶瞭一種對既有美學規範的有力挑戰,它們共同構成瞭一幅二十世紀以來人類思想邊界被不斷推嚮極限的地圖。閱讀此書,如同在一條幽深而未知的河流中逆流而上,去探尋那些隱藏在錶麵之下的、塑造瞭我們當代精神世界的深層暗流。它要求讀者摒棄舒適區,以全新的、審視性的眼光重新審視我們所生活的這個世界及其背後的隱秘結構。