书籍介绍
Simone Weil described “decreation” as “undoing the creature in us”–an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.
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We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say "I." This is what we must yield up to God. (Simone Weil)
（比起她其他书）3.5
又来强行读carson 睡眠阐释跟最后的opera太太太太妙了…
“Decreation”其实就是一个自我消解的过程，但是她很有趣也很特别的地方就在于把书中大多数很学术的东西从编排文学（文字）中也一同消解了。用古典文学，精神分析等等的东西来阐述睡眠（济慈认为睡眠是值得赞扬的，拉康赞美睡眠为一种失明，伍尔芙通过睡眠让我们瞥见一种空洞的东西，奥德赛里人与床铺的纠缠关系，戏剧化的“床头戏”，睡眠与觉醒…）以及从中很诗意，很意识流的东西都是精妙的，包括后面写歌剧的部分，「消解」似乎无处不在。
PS至此读完了卡森。其实包括很多我喜欢的女性作家，她们字里行间流露出的对母亲对家庭对生活对人生的审视是现阶段的我完全能够共情的东西，好像重新审视从母亲怀里诞下直到此刻的记忆就是一件必须要经历的事情，至少，要这样才能得以继续。如此看来，这或许也是阅读的一部分意义。
（这是Performative writing吧?吗？）为了写Keats和Carson的Intertextuality的Pre，只得空看了“Every Exit is an Entrance”（让我赶快结束5个pre进入假期吧）得以重新进入Bishop “The Man-Moth”中作为紧急出口的月亮，重新从睡眠的这一面进入spooky & uncanny "The Haunted House"，大概是异教版的everything that rises must 'escape'，Carson从来不在表面逗留太久，每一个词都是“伤口”，每一个“伤口”都既是“出口”又是“入口”
卡森的文论写得真好
谢谢"Seated Figure with Red Angle by Betty Goodwin", 让我知道自己还没失灵。"Quad"的精妙，偶尔超过了Beckett.
丰盛的合集，比其他作品更重形（而非神）。像作者散落各处文字的七十二种姿态，于是汇聚成书时隐约能明白“decreation”为题的用意（然而当她谈论Sappho、Weil而不是Kant或者Marx时，仍会立即感受到穿梭时空般的魔力）。
Beautiful language and beautiful thoughts. 对dream与sublime的解读，对诗歌，戏剧，电影，纪实等多题材写作的实验。写Virginia Woolf，写奥德赛，写庄子，写Antonioni，写Sappho，Marguerite Porete以及Simone Weil。由戏剧编排为蓝本写三个女性对爱与神性的哲思，以及她们对自我的消解。