Burn This Book_ PEN Writers Speak Out on - To

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1、BURNTHISBOOKPENWRITERSSPEAKOUTONTHEPOWEROFTHEWORDEDITEDBYTONIMORRISONCONTENTS1PerilToniMorrison12WhyWrite?JohnUpdike53WritingintheDarkDavidGrossman224OutfromUndertheCloudofUnknowingFrancineProse335TheMan,theMenattheStationPicoIyer42CONTENTS6NotesonLiteratureandEngagementRussellBanks

2、517TalkingtoStrangersPaulAuster668FreedomtoWriteOrhanPamuk709NotesonWritingandtheNationSalmanRushdie7810TheSuddenSharpMemoryEdPark8411Witness:TheInwardTestimonyNadineGordimer97Contributors115AbouttheEditor119CreditsCoverCopyrightAboutthePublisheriv1PerilToniMorrisonuthoritarianregim

3、es,dictators,despotsareoften,Abutnotalways,fools.Butnoneisfoolishenoughtogiveperceptive,dissidentwritersfreerangetopublishtheirjudgmentsorfollowtheircreativeinstincts.Theyknowtheydosoattheirownperil.Theyarenotstupidenoughtoabandoncontrol(overtorinsidious)overmedia.Theirmethodsinclud

4、esur-veillance,censorship,arrest,evenslaughterofthosewritersinforminganddisturbingthepublic.Writ-erswhoareunsettling,callingintoquestion,takinganother,deeperlook.Writers—journalists,essayists,bloggers,poets,playwrights—candisturbthesocialoppressionthatfunctionslikeacomaonthepopula-t

5、ion,acomadespotscallpeace;andtheystanchthebloodflowofwarthathawksandprofiteersthrillto.TONIMORRISONThatistheirperil.Oursisofanothersort.Howbleak,unlivable,insufferableexistencebe-comeswhenwearedeprivedofartwork.Thatthelifeandworkofwritersfacingperilmustbepro-tectedisurgent,butalongwit

6、hthaturgencyweshouldremindourselvesthattheirabsence,thechok-ingoffofawriter’swork,itscruelamputation,isofequalperiltous.Therescueweextendtothemisagenerositytoourselves.Weallknownationsthatcanbeidentifiedbytheflightofwritersfromtheirshores.Theseareregimeswhosefearofunmonitoredwritingis

7、justifiedbe-causetruthistrouble.Itistroubleforthewarmon-ger,thetorturer,thecorporatethief,thepoliticalhack,thecorruptjusticesystem,andforacomatosepublic.Unpersecuted,unjailed,unharassedwritersaretroublefortheignorantbully,theslyracist,andthepredatorsfeedingofftheworld’sresources.Thea

8、larm,thedisquiet,wr