本书为我社“大学经典”丛书之一种，选用近人古直笺注本为底本，由《诗品》研究专家曹旭先生整理，并附以导读和集评。古直笺之考订辨别或妙解阐发等有诸多精义，刊行后大受好评，其疏漏失误之处则由整理者在导读或按语中加以辨明。出于补正，书末附录整理者之《诗品》校正本，这是八十年来几代研究者校勘成果的总汇，供读者在阅读和征引时加以利用。 导读 发凡 诗品序 诗品卷上 诗品卷中 诗品卷下 附一：《南史·钟嵘传》 附二：《诗品》校正本

本书由刘小枫选编，2006年增补篇目后重新修订出版。其中摘选了莱辛、赫尔德、席勒、狄尔泰、西梅尔、舍勒、卡夫卡、海德格尔、阿多尔诺等数十位德语思想家、文学家、哲学家的诗学论文，分上下两卷，约60万字。

In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, the noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of individual works—among others, Chekhov’s story “The Kiss,” The Emigrants, by W. G. Sebald, and The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald. Wood reveals his own intimate relationship with the written word: we see the development of a boy from the provinces growing up in a charged Christian environment, the secret joy of his childhood reading, the links he draws between reading and blasphemy, or between literature and music. The final section discusses fiction in the context of exile and homelessness. More than a tightly argued little book by a man commonly regarded as our finest living critic, The Nearest Thing to Life is an exhilarating personal account that reflects on, and embodies, the fruitful conspiracy between reader and writer (and critic), and asks us to reconsider everything that is at stake when we read and write fiction.