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For the Time Being

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內容簡介 National Bestseller"Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." --Daily NewsFrom Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners.Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding."Stimulating, humbling, original--. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."--Rocky Mountain News

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各界推薦 知名作家安妮‧狄勒，繼二十五年前贏得普立茲獎的散文作品《汀克溪畔的朝聖者》之後，再度完成此一散文佳作。體例乍看之下有如小說，閱讀之後將會發現是一部以冷靜的第一人稱敘述的原創性散文。 書中所提及的場景往往陌生而遙遠，然而內容所關注的議題卻又十分貼近人類心靈深處。作者追蹤一粒沙的身世，觀察幾朵雲在歷史與藝術作品中留下的記錄，追溯古生物學者暨傳教士德日進在中國沙漠的騾隊足跡，作者在個人體驗與博大的閱讀之間來回，引用了哲學、自然科學與宗教神學的事例，對著上帝、邪惡與個體存在提出了疑問：缺陷與美好為何並存？既然有奇蹟，為何也有悲劇？上帝為何讓邪惡存在？時間是什麼，永恆在哪裡？存在是怎麼一回事？個人生命究竟有什麼重要性？萬事如此，人該如何繼續活下去？嘗試探索個人於人類已逝的世世代代中、以及永恆之中究竟占有何種位置的多面向思考。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Annie Dillard lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

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