Educated : A Memoir

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Educated
: A Memoir

作者:TaraWestover

出版社:RandomHouse

副标题:AMemoir

出版年:2018-2-20

页数:352

定价:USD28.00

装帧:Hardcover

ISBN:9780399590504

内容简介
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Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

作者简介
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Tara Westover is an American author living in the UK. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father’s junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for a decade. She graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.

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Westover家族应该都是天资优秀的,从Tara的父母亲白手起家的生意可见一斑,而且读了书的三兄妹都有很强的主动性和能力,前后纷纷获得PhD (果然学习是阶层流动的上上之选)。更吸引我的是Tara通过学习的过程不断的发现自己:第一部受到家庭暴力,虽然有气愤不甘,却也说不上想要什么。到第二部,当Tara有了历史、心理学的知识,她不仅听从脑子里的想法,还可以理性分析,与自己和解。当无法改变原生家庭,…

外网上有一部分读者对这本书争议挺大的。关于就这样把家底子都抖出来是不是合适,关于她家庭的负面内容是不是存在夸大,甚至是不是存在完全的杜撰。但是不管怎么说我还是很喜欢这本书。提供了与主流认知非常不一样的一个成长故事。从我个人的认识来说我觉得这样的成长经历是可能存在的。在美国一些保守地区有可能存在像她父母这样偏执而且反对公共系统的人。

至于要不要把这种经历写出来,面对着和家人全部分裂的风险,的确是个…

一本极有分量的个人史。不光和教育相关,还包含了由原教旨主义宗教,右翼立场,暴力和原生家庭沼泽建构起来的我所完全陌生的一个世界。阅读过程中不下十次觉得生理性不适,但也正因如此,看到最后几章作者忍痛和原生家庭划清界限,努力进行自我教育之后的成果,才更感慨于她非凡的勇气(我也要加油啊!

听完了这本超级震撼的书,翻看了一些作者的采访和其他周边,还有点缓不过来。不是震撼与Tara的成功,他们家人想必都是聪明的,而是觉得害怕,莫名地感同身受地害怕,到底什么是真实什么是一个人对事实的感受?记忆有什么可靠的?价值观和世界观被打碎时怎样才能和解?怎么能接受自己心中的事实?rationalization是每个人必须要做的,到底要做到什么程度?我回想我的记忆里很多都被掩埋强迫自己遗忘了,可是听这…

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