《如何读,为什么读》一书是美国“耶鲁学派”批评家哈罗德·布鲁姆年近古稀时出版的一本个人化的导读著作。布鲁姆在1994年出版的《西方正典:伟大作家和不朽作品》一书中批评当代“非理性娱乐”占主导地位的世界,重新赞许“阅读”这种从世界逃向自我、“扩大孤独空间”的生活。他知道文学作为“废黜之王”已经被资讯与娱乐世界边缘化的境况,认定两者 The book “How to Read and Why to Read” was a personal guide published by Harold Bloom, a critic of the American Yale school. Broome criticized contemporary “irrational entertainment” dominated world in the book “Western Canon: Great Writers and Immortal Works” published in 1994, reapproved “read ” this escape from the world to the self , “Expanding the life of a lonely space”. He knows that literature has been marginalized by the information and entertainment world as “the king of waste” and that both