純文學第 19 名
Transcription
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關於本書
From the “most talented writer of his generation” (The New York Times), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store—or to erase—our memories. The narrator of Ben Lerner’s new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend, Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail “from the future and the past simultaneously” and who “reenchants the air” when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas’s house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess. What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory. Haunted by Kafka (there are echoes of “The Judgement” and “A Hunger Artist”), but utterly contemporary, Lerner combines trenchant insight with lyric mystery. Ultimately, Transcription demonstrates what only a work of fiction can record.
分數的組成
各來源在 50 則評分上的均值是 7.7。數量還不多，讀者票只占權重的 21%，其餘被拉向純文學的均值 8.3。8.1 就是這麼來的。
| 來源 | 平均 | 評分數 | 權重 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 50 | 100% |
讀者的聲音
Hardcover 上獲讚最多的書評（註明作者）。
“I always feel a little targeted by these books. Thanks for the call out to The Left Hand of Darkness and references to specific Providence cross-streets. Still, it's nice. As others noted, it's a quick read and Lerner is a thoughtful writer. I think his narrative writing is a little stronger than his dialogue. And so I was disappointed when the third section was a near-unbroken monologue. I also don't believe that Max and his wife are lawyers. The novel touches on some important ideas - the way we comfort ourselves with technology and how it mediates our relationships to others, the difficu…”
“takes place in 2020-2021ish (early Covid), and told in 3 parts. part 1: unnamed narrator interviews his old professor & mentor Thomas, an eccentric 90yr old dude w memory issues who likes to go on random tangents about history and linguistics. Narrator drops his phone in the sink and can't record this last conversation. He is Stressed about it. Part 2: narrator is confronted by his colleague about falsifying thomas's last words, given that that last convo wasnt actually recorded. Part 3: narrator's college best friend Max recounts his struggle with his daughter's ARFID & difficulty connecting …”
常見問題
《Transcription》的評分是多少？
10 分制下 8.1 分，來自 1 個獨立來源的 50 則讀者評分。
Transcription值得讀嗎？
50位讀者給出8.1/10，高於純文學書架上62 %的書。
《Transcription》排第幾？
在目前的快照中位列純文學第 19 名。
喜歡這本的話
同在純文學書架，分數介於 8.1 與 8.2 之間，與本書最接近的作品。
