小说类书籍读者本就远远多于非小说类,大概是小说更容易引起人们的兴趣,获得关注。对于我来说,一直就很想读中外名著,未果。不仅是因为觉着苦涩难懂,更觉着浪费时间,我还不如看会专业书,做些可以对眼前有利的事情。其实是不对的。
lacking both space anf competence to do read imaginative literature,two short cuts are supplied to you.
The first proceeds by the way of negation,stating the obvious don't instead of theconstructive rules.
The second proceeds by the way of analogy,briefly translating the rules for reading nonfiction into their equivalents forreading fiction.
Imaginative literature delights primarily rather than instructs.
Exposition books aim primarily to instruct,imaginative ones to delight.
Don't read fiction as it it were fact don't read a novel as it were a scientific work,not even as if it were social science or psychology.
1 don't try to find a message in a novel,play,or poem.
2 don't look for terms,propositions,and arguments in imaginative literature.
3 don't criticize fiction by the standards of truth and consistency properly apply to communications of knowledge.
4 don't rradall imaginativebooks as if they werr the same.
阅读说明书的规则
阅读小说的结构规则
You must Classify a piece of imaginative literature according to its kind
you must grasp the unity of the whole workyou must not only reduce the whole to its simplest unity,you must also discover how that whole is constructed out of all its parts.
分析小说
1 the elements of fiction are its episodes and incidents its characters,and their thought, speeches,feelings and actions.
2 terms are connected in propositions
3 if there is any motion in. an exposity book,it is the movement of the argument,a logical transition from evidences and reasons to the conclusions they support.
some questions to help you form a critical judgement on fiction.
four questions as guides to enlighten us