《紐約的窗景，我的故事》作者佩里柯利與五十位作家聯手從窗景看世界
每一天，人們總是在工作時的暫歇、交談間的停頓中，眼光便不自覺地往窗外投去。但是真正看到了什麼嗎？似乎沒有。我們只是不經意地瞥過尋常的屋頂、熟悉的樹木，或是遙遠的起重機。身處在21世紀的人，生活範圍侷限於室內或都市叢林裡，唯一認識環境的方法就是透過牆壁上那一扇扇玻璃窗。
善於素描的建築師馬帝歐．佩里柯利一向對窗景情有獨鍾，此次他邀請五十位世界知名作家，讓他們用文字描述實際或想像的窗外景觀，包括在伊斯坦堡的帕慕克、柏林的丹尼爾．凱曼、約翰尼斯堡的諾貝爾文學獎得主葛蒂瑪以及北京的詩人西川等。優美的文字結合佩里柯利細緻的黑白素描，一片片窗景像是帶我們完成了五十場行旅、看完五十篇故事，甚至是體驗五十種國度的精彩人生。（文/博客來編譯）
Fifty of the world’s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of home
All of us, at some point in our daily lives, have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in our work, tune out of a conversation, and turn toward the outside. Our eyes simply gaze,
without seeing, at a landscape whose familiarity becomes the customary ground for distraction: the usual rooftops, the familiar trees, a distant crane. The way of life for most of us in the
twenty-first century means that we spend most of our time indoors, in an urban environment, and our awareness of the outside world comes via, and thanks to, a framed glass hole in the
wall.
In Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views, architect and artist Matteo Pericoli brilliantly explores this concept alongside fifty of our most beloved writers from across the globe.
By pairing drawings of window views with texts that reveal—either physically or metaphorically—what the drawings cannot, Windows on the World offers a perceptual journey through the world as
seen through the windows of prominent writers: Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, Daniel Kehlmann in Berlin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Lagos, John Jeremiah Sullivan in Wilmington, North Carolina,
Nadine Gordimer in Johannesburg, Xi Chuan in Beijing. Taken together, the views—geography and perspective, location and voice—resonate with and play off each other.
Working from a series of meticulous photographs and other notes from authors’ homes and offices, Pericoli creates a pen-and-ink illustration of each window and the view it frames. Many
readers know Pericoli’s work from his acclaimed series for The New York Times and later forThe Paris Review Daily, which have a devoted following. Now, Windows on the Worldcollects from
Pericoli’s body of work and features fifteen never-before-seen windows in one gorgeously designed volume, as well as a preface from the Paris Review’s editor Lorin Stein. As we delve into what
each writer’s view may or may not share with the others’, as we look at the map and explore unfamiliar views of cities from around the world, a new kind of map begins to take shape.
Windows on the World is a profound and eye-opening look inside the worlds of writers, reminding us that the things we see every day are woven into ourselves and our imaginations, making us
keener and more inquisitive observers of our own worlds.
