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发表于2024-08-02
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The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love—at least until Magda’s long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation.
Len Rix’s prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer.
Magda Szabó (1917–2007) was born into an old Protestant family in Debrecen, Hungary’s “Calvinist Rome,” in the midst of the great Hungarian plain. Szabó, whose father taught her to converse with him in Latin, German, English, and French, attended the University of Debrecen, studying Latin and Hungarian, and went on to work as a teacher throughout the German and Soviet occupations of Hungary in 1944 and 1945. In 1947, she published two volumes of poetry, Bárány (The Lamb), and Vissza az emberig (Return to Man), for which she received the Baumgartner Prize in 1949. Under Communist rule, this early critical success became a liability, and Szabó turned to writing fiction: her first novel, Freskó (Fresco), came out in 1958, followed closely by Az oz (The Fawn). In 1959 she won the József Attila Prize, after which she went on to write many more novels, among them Katalin utca (Katalin Street, 1969), Ókút (The Ancient Well, 1970), Régimódi történet (An Old-Fashioned Tale, 1971), and Az ajtó (The Door, 1987). Szabó also wrote verse for children, plays, short stories, and nonfiction, including a tribute to her husband, Tibor Szobotka, a writer and translator of Tolkien and Galsworthy who died in 1982. A member of the European Academy of Sciences and a warden of the Calvinist Theological Seminary in Debrecen, Magda Szabó died in the town in which she was born, a book in her hand. In 2017 NYRB Classics will publish Iza’s Ballad (1963).
看完時就好像真的認識這樣一個人。喜歡作者這樣整本書用來寫一個主要人物以及和她的關係,也讓人瞭解瞭匈牙利的文化民情。
評分為喜愛的書寫點記錄。『像是翻開自己的內裏』,就是這種感覺。
評分Cult版的《一顆簡單的心》,另類的《刺蝟的優雅》,反寫的《被嫌棄的鬆子的一生》。按民國時期的譯法,書名可能會被翻成《倔老婦》或者《拗婦人》(王安石綽號"拗相公",也是戲名)。Emerence既是diva,也是地母。從"破門而入"開始我就已經笑不齣來瞭,對尊嚴在老病和死亡的催逼下的呈現過份真實,乃至有不適感。當然好書是好書。
評分真是一本好書啊 值得一讀 !
評分莫名想到《布達佩斯大飯店》,也是一個失落的時代,重要的是經曆過的事情和遇到的人,他們又或多或少代錶那個時代。我能想象到那隻狗的叫聲,在她死的那一刻。那個房間,多年沒有進去過的房間,沒有人動過,令人嘆為觀止的傢具,奢侈和品味,但是就像卡夫卡的小說那樣的荒誕,一瞬間都化作烏有。
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The Door pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024