By Jane Ciabattari

10 March 2015

The year 1925 was a golden moment in literary history. Ernest Hemingway’s first book, In Our Time, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby were all published that year. As were Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer, Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith, among others. In fact, 1925 may well be literature’s greatest year.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150310-the-greatest-year-for-books-ever

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1964年我在台北的中山國小--近9000學生，全國第2大---讀5年級：有世運、台北市市長選舉......總之，我個人的認知革命.......

2016年2月的"漢清講堂"，紀念Joseph M. Juran，談我翻譯他的1964年出版的Managerial Breakthrough的30周年增訂版。
2016年3月的"漢清講堂"，紀念鄭明萱2006年翻譯McLuhan 1964年的Understanding Media等書。
1987年我在東海大學建築研究所兼課，翻譯了：Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964)，為出版。
我想了解英文出版品1964年還出版那些名著。

Best Books of 1964

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5402.Best_Books_of_1964

我比較熟悉的有：

1名Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
by Roald Dahl
5名A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway

22名Apocalypse Postponed
by Umberto Eco

"I would like to dedicate the book to those critics whom I have so summarily defined as apocalyptics. Without their unjust, biased, neurotic, desperate censure, I would never have elaborated three quarters of the ideas that I want to share here; without them, perhaps none of us would have realized that the question of mass culture is one in which we are all deeply involved. It is a sign of contradiction in our civilization." - Umberto Eco.

This is a witty and erudite collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces never before published in English. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals as either apocalyptic (or opposed to all mass culture) or integrated intellectuals (who are so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it). Organized into four main parts - "Mass Culture: Apocalypse Postponed," "Mass Media and the Limits of Communication," "The Rise and Fall of Countercultures," and "In Search of Italian Genius" - Eco's essays look at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including the world of Charlie Brown, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, the future of literacy, Chinese comic strips, whether countercultures exist, Fellini's "Ginger and Fred", and the Italian genius industry.