The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera

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Dung Kai-cheung (董啟章) was born in Hong Kong in 1967 and received his B.A. and M.Phil. in comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of more than twenty books in Chinese, mainly fiction. He has won numerous literary awards, including the Unitas Fiction Writing Award for New Writers, the United Daily News Literary Award for the Novel, the Award for Best Artist (Literary Arts) in 2007/2008 from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and Author of the Year of the Hong Kong Book Fair in 2014. His first work translated into English, Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, won the Best Translated Work Award at the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards (2013). An English translation of his work, Cantonese Love Stories, was published last year by Penguin China.

Yau Wai-ping is Associate Professor of Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University. In addition to translations of Chinese fiction and poetry, he has published widely on Chinese cinema, including works on Wong Kar-wai and Pema Tseden.

出版者:East Slope Publishing Ltd. (Muse, HK)
作者:Dung Kai-cheung
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页数:508
译者:Yau Wai-ping
出版时间:2018-6
价格:HK$150
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9789881604767
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  • 香港 
  • 董啟章 
  • novel 
  • 2000s 
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Award-winning author Dung Kai-cheung weaves together two inventive narratives in this remarkable book. One is the story of a novelist who recounts his family’s history against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s development from the 1930s to the 1990s. Dung builds this story through vignettes about the protagonist’s relationship with technological inventions that shaped his life, as glimpsed through his uncertain memory and family myths. Running parallel to this is a rebellion by the novelist’s oppressed fictional characters, who attempt to break the yoke of servile obedience laid upon them by the conventions of novel-writing. The central character, Vivi, has been written into being by the author and, once created, she seems to take on a life of her own and moves from being fabricated to being real, even bravely undertaking the journey to meet her creator—the novelist—in the real world. Fantasy and realism combine to suggest that crossing boundaries is inherent part of our nature.

Praise for The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera

“Dung Kai-cheung is the most important writer of contemporary Hong Kong. Since the end of the last century, his work has constituted an alternative history of Hong Kong: the city’s splendor and dilemma, its fantastic metamorphoses and uncanny fate. The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera represents Dung at his best. The novel chronicles the changes and continuities of Hong Kong in the final decades of colonial rule, and projects a futuristic vision in which postcolonial nostalgia meets postmodernist fantasia, and family romance begets science fantasy. Above all, Dung seeks to inscribe Hong Kong as fiction, and celebrate the power of creativity that is Hong Kong.”

—David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University

“Dung Kai-cheung is Hong Kong’s most prolific and innovative contemporary novelist. His work is at once playful and challenging, brilliant and imaginative, and filled with a sense of mystery and discovery. The first volume in Dung’s acclaimed ‘Natural History’ trilogy, The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera is nothing short of a qishu, or ‘book of wonder.’ Freely navigating different times and spaces, people and objects, autobiographies and fictions, Dung Kai-cheung has written a new allegory for our troubled times.”

—Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA, author of Speaking in Images and A History of Pain

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董启章 木叶:在文学将死未死的时代 《上海文学》2014年3月号 木叶:采访骆以军,我们两个乘电梯的时候,我说,“你的作品很有雄性的感觉”。他说,“的确是,我是阳性、雄性比较强。董启章就不同了,是阴性的,如果董启章是个女孩的话,我会追求他的。” 董启章:这个玩笑...  

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按:董启章的小说一直想读而未有机会读到。有好一阵子在台湾的《自由时报》上读他的专栏,“给同路人”,言真意切,看得出是一位全心系于文学事业的好作家。他也很可怜,身为香港作家,香港几乎看不到他的书,只能在台湾出版。大陆也似乎没有出版过他的书。《书城》杂志以前登...  

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很多人第一眼看到《天工开物·栩栩如真》的封面会奇怪这是一本什么样的书,加之出自宋应星《天工开物》“乃服”一章牵经图,很容易就误解为这是中国古代工艺技术的现代图解本。 其实,这是香港中生代小说家董启章宏大写作计划“自然史”三部曲的第一部,仅仅凭藉这第一部曲,...  

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董启章 木叶:在文学将死未死的时代 《上海文学》2014年3月号 木叶:采访骆以军,我们两个乘电梯的时候,我说,“你的作品很有雄性的感觉”。他说,“的确是,我是阳性、雄性比较强。董启章就不同了,是阴性的,如果董启章是个女孩的话,我会追求他的。” 董启章:这个玩笑...  

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