“If you’re young and have the time, go and study. Study anthropology, sociology, economy, geopolitics. Study so that you’re actually able to understand what you’re photographing. What you can photograph and what you should photograph.”
If you’re resolving to read more in the new year, try starting with these books recommended by Harvard professors.
這篇是我2005年記的
The Harvard Guide to Influential Books: 113 Distinguished Harvard Professors Discuss the Books That Have Helped to Shape Their Thinking 這本書中國有譯本
The Argentinian fiction writer, essayist, and librarian Jorge Luis Borges selected the following titles for two series, "The Library of Babel" and "A Personal Library."
The Library of Babel
- Jack London, The Concentric Deaths
- Jorge Luis Borges, August 25 1983
- Gustav Meyrink, Cardinal Napellus
- Léon Bloy, Discourteous Tales
- Giovanni Papini, The Escaping Mirror
- Oscar Wilde, The Crime of Lord Arthur Savile
- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, The Guest at the Last Banquet
- Pedro de Alarcón, The Friend of Death
- Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
- William Beckford, Vathek
- H. G. Wells, The Door in the Wall
- P'u Sung-Ling, The Tiger Guest
- Arthur Machen, The Shining Pyramid
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Island of the Voices
- G. K. Chesterton, The Eye of Apollo
- Jacques Cazotte, The Devil in Love
- Franz Kafka, The Vulture
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter
- Leopoldo Lugones, The Statue of Salt
- Rudyard Kipling, The House of Desires
- The Thousand and One Nights, according to Galland
- The Thousand and One Nights, according to Burton
- Henry James, The Friends of Friends
- Voltaire, Micromegas
- Charles H.Hinton, Scientific Romances
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great Stone Face
- Lord Dunsany, The Country of Yann
- Saki, The Reticence of Lady Anne
- Russian Tales
- Argentine Tales
- J. L. Borges & A. Bioy Casares, New Stories of Bustos Domecq
- Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Dreams
- Jorge Luis Borges, Borges A/Z
A Personal Library
- Julio Cortázar, Stories
- & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
- Franz Kafka, Amerika; Short Stories
- G. K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross and Other Stories
- & 7. Wilkie Collins, Moonstone
- Maurice Maeterlink, The Intelligence of Flowers
- Dino Buzzati, The Desert of the Tartars
- Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt; Hedda Gabler
- J. M. Eça de Queiroz, The Mandarin
- Leopoldo Lugones, The Jesuit Empire
- André Gide, The Counterfeiters
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; The Invisible Man
- Robert Graves, The Greek Myths
- & 17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
- E. Kasner & J. Newman, Mathematics and the Imagination
- Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra
- Ariwara no Narihara, Tales of Ise
- Herman Melville, Benito Cereno; Billy Budd; Bartleby the Scrivener
- Giovanni Papini, The Tragic Everyday; The Blind Pilot; Words and Blood
- Arthur Machen, The Three Imposters
- Fray Luis de León, tr., The Song of Songs
- Fray Luis de León, An Explanation of the Book of Job
- Joseph Conrad, The End of the Tether; Heart of Darkness
- Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Oscar Wilde, Essays and Dialogues
- Henri Michaux, A Barbarian in Asia
- Hermann Hesse, The Bead Game
- Arnold Bennett, Buried Alive
- Claudius Elianus, On the Nature of Animals
- Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Anthony
- Marco Polo, Travels
- Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives
- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra; Major Barbara; Candide
- Francisco de Quevedo, Marcus Brutus; The Hour of All
- Eden Phillpots, The Red Redmaynes
- Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
- Gustav Meyrink, The Golem
- Henry James, The Lesson of the Master; The Figure in the Carpet; The Private Life
- & 44. Herodotus, The Nine Books of History
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
- Rudyard Kipling, Tales
- William Beckford, Vathek
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
- Jean Cocteau, The Professional Secret and Other Texts
- Thomas De Quincey, The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories
- Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Robert Louis Stevenson, New Arabian Nights; Markheim
- Léon Bloy, Salvation for the Jews; The Blood of the Poor; In the Darkness
- The Bhagavad-Gita; The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Juan José Arreola, Fantastic Stories
- David Garnett, Lady Into Fox; A Man in the Zoo; The Sailor's Return
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Paul Groussac, Literary Criticism
- Manuel Mujica Láinez, The Idols
- Juan Ruíz, The Book of Good Love
- William Blake, Complete Poetry
- Hugh Walpole, Above the Dark Circus
- Ezequiel Martinez Estrada, Poetical Works
- Edgar Allan Poe, Tales
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- Voltaire, Stories
- J. W. Dunne, An Experiment with Time
- Atilio Momigliano, An Essay on Orlando Furioso
- & 71. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience; The Study of Human Nature
- Snorri Sturluson, Egil's Saga
- The Book of the Dead
- & 75. J. Alexander Gunn, The Problem of Time
Source: Borges, Jorge Luis. Selected Non-Fictions. Ed. by Eliot Weinberger. New York: Penguin Books, 1999, pp. 500-501, 511-512, 547. © Maria Kodama, 1999