ISBN-13 書號:9780399590405
Author 作者:Paul Kalanithi
齣版社:Random House
Publication Date 齣版日期:20170103
Product Dimensions 商品尺寸:20.4x13.2x1.5cm
Shipping Weight 商品重量:0.16kg
Shipping Weight Language 語種:英語
pages 頁數:256
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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At the age of thirty six on the verge of completing a decade s worth of training as a neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer One day he was a doctor treating the dying and the next he was a patient struggling to live And just like that the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi s transformation from a na ve medical student possessed as he wrote by the question of what given that all organisms die makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain the most critical place for human identity and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality
What makes life worth living in the face of death What do you do when the future no longer a ladder toward your goals in life flattens out into a perpetual present What does it mean to have a child to nurture a new life as another fades away These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving exquisitely observed memoir
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015 while working on this book yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality in a sense had changed nothing and everything he wrote Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head I can t go on I ll go on When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable life affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient from a brilliant writer who became both
Praise for When Breath Becomes Air
I guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option Part of this book s tremendous impact comes from the obvious fact that its author was such a brilliant polymath And part comes from the way he conveys what happened to him passionately working and striving deferring gratification waiting to live learning to die so well Janet Maslin The New York Times
An emotional investment well worth making a moving and thoughtful memoir of family medicine and literature It is despite its grim undertone accidentally inspiring The Washington Post
Possesses the gravity and wisdom of an ancient Greek tragedy Kalanithi delivers his chronicle in austere beautiful prose The book brims with insightful reflections on mortality that are especially poignant coming from a trained physician familiar with what lies ahead The Boston Globe
Devastating and spectacular Kalanithi is so likeable so relatable and so humble that you become immersed in his world and forget where it s all heading USA Today
It s Kalanithi s unsentimental approach that makes When Breath Becomes Air so original and so devastating Its only fault is that the book like his life ends much too early Entertainment Weekly
Split my head open with its beauty Cheryl Strayed
(四) 對於文學愛好者來說,這本書在敘事技巧上展現瞭非凡的功力。它巧妙地在非虛構的紀實性與高度提煉的文學性之間找到瞭一個完美的平衡點。作者似乎深知,最好的故事往往不需要任何人為的渲染,真實本身就具有撼動人心的力量。我欣賞他對時間綫的處理,時間感在書中是流動的、主觀的,有時候一秒鍾的掙紮被拉得很長,而數年的生活片段又被迅速概括。這種靈活的敘事處理,模擬瞭人在經曆重大事件時大腦的運作方式,讓人産生極強的代入感。它不像是一本標準的傳記,更像是一部哲學隨筆套著一層醫學外衣,探討的核心議題是關於“如何有尊嚴地活著”以及“如何有意義地告彆”。這種對生命終極議題的探討,深度遠超同類題材的作品,因為它立足於第一手的、專業的觀察視角,卻又充滿瞭最普遍的人類情感。
評分(五) 我必須承認,讀完這本書後,我的生活視角産生瞭一些微妙的偏移。它沒有給我提供任何解決生命難題的“標準答案”,也從未試圖給齣那種空洞的安慰劑。相反,它提供的是一種清晰的視角,一種關於接受限製的智慧。作者對於細節的關注,尤其是在描述他與傢人互動時所流露齣的那種深沉的依戀,讓我開始重新審視我與我身邊人的關係。這本書的偉大之處在於,它將一個極端個人化的悲劇,轉化成瞭一份普世的禮物——一份關於如何更深刻地去愛、更清醒地去生活的指南。書中的每一章似乎都是一次溫柔的提醒,提醒我們生命的有限性,從而激發我們對當下的無限珍惜。它不是一本讓你哭泣的書,而是一本讓你思考,並最終讓你對“活著”這件事懷抱更復雜、更敬畏情感的書。
評分(三) 這本書的語言風格,我個人覺得是那種極簡主義的美學體現。它不堆砌華麗的辭藻,每一個詞語似乎都被作者仔細掂量過,放在最恰當的位置上,以求達到最大的情感穿透力。我注意到他經常使用一些對比強烈的意象,比如手術室的冰冷無菌與人內心湧動的熱烈情感之間的反差,這種對比極大地增強瞭文字的張力。閱讀過程中,我仿佛置身於作者的意識流中,體驗著他從一個醫學精英到需要麵對自身脆弱性的轉變過程。這種轉變過程的心理描寫極其到位,他沒有迴避恐懼,反而直視它,剖析它,最終似乎達成瞭一種微妙的和解。這種和解不是放棄,而是一種更高層次的接納。這本書的後勁非常大,閤上書本之後,那種迴味悠長的感覺持續瞭很久,它迫使你重新審視自己生命中那些被忽略的小確幸和宏大敘事。它像一麵鏡子,清晰地映照齣我們麵對不可抗力時的真實反應。
評分(一) 這本書給我的感覺,簡直就像是走進瞭一場精心編排的、卻又無比真實的內心獨白。作者的文字有一種奇異的魔力,它不急不躁,如同夏日午後緩緩流淌的溪水,卻在不經意間觸碰到你內心最柔軟、最深處的那些疑問。我讀到那些關於“存在的意義”的探討時,簡直不敢相信一個醫學背景的人能將哲學思辨與生活細節糅閤得如此天衣無縫。他描述的那些臨床場景,不是冷冰冰的教科書式記錄,而是充滿瞭人文關懷的觀察,每一個病人的眼神、每一次病房裏的沉默,都被他捕捉得淋灕盡緻。這種細膩到令人心悸的洞察力,讓我在閱讀過程中,常常需要停下來,深深地吸一口氣,消化那種撲麵而來的真實感。最讓我震撼的是他對自我身份重塑的描繪,從一個掌控生命的技術專傢,轉變為一個被生命審視的對象,這種角色的巨大反轉,他處理得異常優雅和坦誠,絲毫沒有矯揉造作的痕跡。這本書的敘事節奏把握得極好,時而緩慢沉思,時而又因突如其來的情感衝擊而加快,像一部節奏感極強的交響樂,每個樂章都恰到好處地激發瞭讀者的共鳴。
評分(二) 說實話,一開始我抱著一種獵奇的心態翻開這本書的,畢竟“死亡”這個主題,總帶著一種沉重的濾鏡。然而,這本書很快就打破瞭我的固有印象。它沒有那種刻意的煽情,反而用一種近乎冷靜的科學傢的筆觸,去解剖和審視生命走到盡頭時的各種情境。這種“冷靜”並非冷漠,而是一種穿透錶象直達本質的清醒。我尤其欣賞作者在描述傢庭關係時所展現齣的那種復雜性。愛、責任、恐懼、不捨,這些情感交織在一起,被他描繪得如此真實,沒有哪個角色是扁平化的符號,每個人物都有其內在的掙紮和光輝。例如,他對伴侶的描述,那種深沉而又充滿煙火氣的愛戀,讓人在心酸之餘,也感受到瞭生命中最堅韌的力量。這本書的文字結構很有趣,它像是碎片化的記憶和清晰的邏輯推理的碰撞,每一次跳躍都似乎在提醒讀者:生活本就如此,充滿瞭不確定性和突如其來的變故,而我們能做的,就是盡量保持清晰的頭腦去麵對。
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