Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel’s colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim’s widow skips town. Lionel’s world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer.
His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller.
In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship
说实话,我没太读懂这本书。书中的压抑气氛有点像《红》,但是又不够悬疑。 他是蕴含着一种宗教还有隐晦的政治在其中,以一个人的视角来讲述发生在纽约布鲁克林的故事。 生命很迷茫,而周围的人似乎又很精明。那你的位置又在哪里呢?
评分妥瑞氏症,这个词已经不是我第一次看到了。之前,看电影《叫我第一名》中的主角也换有这种疾病。除了都遭受这种困扰外,他们都有不服输,想要证明自己的决心,或者说 他们只是想过上平凡的生活。 上帝并不是公平的,有些人天生丽质,而有些人从出生就疾病缠身。...
评分孤儿。兄弟。黑帮。侦探。妥瑞氏症。抽动。 乔纳森·勒瑟姆的小说《布鲁克林孤儿》讲述了这样几个关键词。当然,如果用不同人的不同语言习惯和语言逻辑将以上词汇整理成句段的话,我想会有不同的侧重和结果。对这本小说的解读,也同样如此。 而我,则尝试着这样去整理:...
评分【布魯克林孤兒】 作者:強納森‧列瑟/著 譯者:嚴韻 出版社:天培 蔡:今天的主角是張大春,那最後我要推薦的這本小說,跟張大春沒有明顯直接的關聯,可是我的確向張大春提過這本小說,我們的對話是這樣子的---就是我在電話裡面跟張大春說:「你有沒有看過一本小說,叫做『...
评分读《布鲁克林孤儿》,其实就是通过那些含义不明却又能够显现角色内心的“污言秽语”去解读、去体会作者想让我们读懂的。 有些大家都能懂的话往往非真意,有些话你听不懂,但也许能体会。 Jonathan Lethem笔下的私探一定会被放置在十分怪诞的生理与心理特性处境中,在这样的处...
Very enjoyable and well-written (if somewhat light) new take on old-fashioned potboiler fiction. The narrator's Tourette's outbursts of free association are the high point, or at least were for me. I don't envy any Chinese translator who takes this one on -- it'll be a tough gig.
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评分Very enjoyable and well-written (if somewhat light) new take on old-fashioned potboiler fiction. The narrator's Tourette's outbursts of free association are the high point, or at least were for me. I don't envy any Chinese translator who takes this one on -- it'll be a tough gig.
评分Very enjoyable and well-written (if somewhat light) new take on old-fashioned potboiler fiction. The narrator's Tourette's outbursts of free association are the high point, or at least were for me. I don't envy any Chinese translator who takes this one on -- it'll be a tough gig.
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