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The biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to the subject(研究 对象). To close a relation, and the writer
The biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to the subject(研究 对象). To close a relation, and the writer
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2014-09-18
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The biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to the subject(研究 对象). To close a relation, and the writer may lose objectivity. Not close enough, and the writer may lack the sympathy necessary to any effort to portray a mind, a soul—the quality of life. Who should write the biography of a family, for example. Because of their closeness to the subject, family members may have special information, but by the same token, they may not have the distance that would allow them to be fair. Similary, a king’s servant might not be the best one to write a biography of that king. But a foreigner might not have the knowledge and sympathy necessary to write the king’s biography—not for a readership from within the kingdom, at any rate.
There is no ideal position for such a task. The biographer has to work with the position he or she has in the world, adjusting that position as necessary to deal with the subject. Every position has strengths and weaknesses: to thrive, a writer must try to become aware of these, evaluate them in terms of the subject, and select a position accordingly.
When their subjects are heroes or famous figures, biographies often reveal a democratic motive:they attempt to show that their subjects are only human, no better than anyone else. Other biographies are meant to change us, to invite us, to become better than we are. The biographies of Jesus(耶稣)found in the Bible are in this class.
Biographers may claim that their account is the "authentic"one. In advancing this claim, they are helped if the biography is "authorized"by the subject; this presumably allows the biographer special access to private information. "Unauthorized"biographies also have their appeal, however, since they can suggest an independence of mind in the biographer. In book promotions, the"unauthorized"characterisation usually suggests the prospect of juicy gossip that the subject had hoped to suppress. A subject might have several biographies, even sev-eral"authentic"ones. We sense intuitively that no one is in a position to tell the story of a life, perhaps not even the subject, and this has been proved by the history of biography.
According to the author, an ideal biographer would be one who______.
选项
A、knows the subject very well and yet maintains a proper distance from him
B、is close to the subject and knows the techniques of biography writing
C、is independent and treats the subject with fairness and objectivity
D、possesses special private information and is sympathetic toward the subject
答案
A
解析
依据文章第一段,如果传记作家与研究对象(subject)的关系太近就会在其传记作品中失去客观性;如果传记作家与其研究对象关系疏远,他的作品就不能深刻反映研究对象的精神世界。由此可见,最理想的传记作家是那些既了解研究:对象又同时与他保持适当距离的人。选择项[A]符合文章内容。
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