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1、HowWeShouldReadaBookVirginiaWoolfItissimpleenoughtosaythatsincebookshaveclassesfiction,biography,poetryweshouldseparatethemandtakefromeachwhatitisrightthateachshouldgiveus.Yetfewpeopleaskfrombookswhatbookscangiveus.Mostcommonlywecometobookswithblurredanddi
2、videdminds,askingoffictionthatitshallbetrue,ofpoetrythatitshallbefalse,ofbiographythatitshallbeflattering,ofhistorythatitshallenforceourownprejudices.Ifwecouldbanishallsuchpreconceptionswhenweread,thatwouldbeanadmirablebeginning.Donotdictatetoyourauthor;Tr
3、ytobecomehim.Behisfellow-workerandaccomplice.Ifyouhangback,andreserveandcriticizeatfirst,youarepreventingyourselffromgettingthefullestpossiblevaluefromwhatyouread.Butifyouopenyourmindaswidelyaspossible,thesignsandhintsofalmostimperceptiblefineness,fromthet
4、wistandturnofthefirstsentences,willbringyouintothepresenceofahumanbeingunlikeanyother.Steepyourselfinthis,acquaintyourselfwiththis,andsoonyouwillfindthatyourauthorisgivingyou,orattemptingtogiveyou,somethingfarmoredefinite.Thethirty-twochaptersofanovel一ifwe
5、considerhowtoreadanovelfirstareanattempttomakesomethingasformedandcontrolledasabuilding:butwordsaremoreimpalpablethanbricks;Readingisalongerandmorecomplicatedprocessthanseeing.Perhapsthequickestwaytounderstandtheelementsofwhatanovelistisdoingisnottoread,bu
6、ttowrite;Tomakeyourownexperimentwiththedangersanddifficultiesofwords.Recalhthen,someeventthathasleftadistinctimpressiononyou一howatthecornerofthestreet,perhaps,youpassedtwopeopletalking.Atreeshook;anelectriclightdanced;thetoneofthetalkwascomic,butalsotragic
7、;awholevision;anentireconception,seemedcontainedinthatmoment.我们应怎样读书?弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫简单的说,书有小说,传记,诗歌之分,我们应该区别对待,从每本书中得到正确的东西。然而很少有人能得到书能给予我们的东西。我们大多数人拿着书怀着模糊和错乱的想法,要求小说要真实,诗歌要虚假,传记要奉承,历史要增强我们的偏见。当我们读书时,如果能去除所有的偏见,那就是一个很好的开始。不要对作者下命令:努力试着变成作者,成为他的同伴,一起策划。如果你犹豫,一开始就
8、批判,你就不可能从你所读的书屮获得最大的价值。但是如果你尽可能的敞开你的心扉,书中那些极细微的寓意和暗示就会把你从一开始碰到的令人苦恼的句子中带到一个独特的人物面前。沉浸其中,熟悉它,不久你就会发现作者给予你的或尝试给予你的是一些更明确的东西。一部小说的三十二章——如果我们考虑从小说先开始——试图建成像一座布局合理的楼房一样。但是词语比砖块更难,读比看是一个更加漫长和复杂的过程。大概明口一部小说最快的方式不是去读