读书笔记：作者人生际遇对历史书写的影响
Louis Menand 评 Richard Cohen 的新书 Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (Simon & Schuster, 2022)： 网络版：The People Who Decide What Becomes History 印刷版： Gibbon’s Left Testicle. The New Yorker, April 18, 2022, pp. 63-65. 书评印刷版的标题《吉本的左侧睾丸》显然是标题党的作为（杂志目录页上印着的标题其实是“Historians and the writing of history”），颇有吸引眼球的功效；而网络版的标题则中规中矩，点明主题，因为所评之书是讲的是“讲故事的人”即历史书写者（或最广义上的历史学家）的。标题党归标题党，针对这样一本书，书评选择由吉本引入主题，再正当不过了。事实上也确实让我涨了一点知识，一是吉本的“悲催”人生，二是其人生对其历史写作的影响。二者合起来，正是书评文章和书本身的主题。 吉本的左侧睾丸到底怎么了？这一问就问到点子上了—— “It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.” Those are the words of Edward Gibbon,...
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