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马萨诸塞州坎布里奇:哈佛大学出版社,2009年。10页+345页。15.95美元。ISBN:978-0-674-03471-6。这是一部精心设计的平装本,封面是莉莲·吉什魅力无限的特写,书中有丰富的插图,包括从古代美索不达米亚到21世纪的传记节选。奈杰尔·汉密尔顿曾写过约翰·肯尼迪的传记,现在正在写作一部三卷本的比尔·克林顿传记,在这本书中,他向我们展示了激动人心的传记艺术。然而,他并非雄心勃勃。在序言中,他坚持认为这个文类不仅仅是文学的,而是将传记定义为任何“致力于记录和阐述真实生命的输出”。在这个定义下,肖像的视觉插图也是传记历史的一部分,同样,任何反
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009. 10 pages +345 pages. $ 15.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-03471-6. This is a well-designed paperback with the cover of Lilian Josh’s fascinating feature, illustrated with illustrations from ancient Mesopotamian to 21st century biographies. Nigel Hamilton, who has written a biography of John F. Kennedy, is now writing a three-volume biography of Bill Clinton, in which he shows us an exciting biography art. However, he is not ambitious. In his preface, he insisted that the genre was not merely literature, but defined the biography as any “commitment to recording and explicating the output of real life.” In this definition, the visual illustration of the portrait is also part of the history of the biography, and similarly, any reverse