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发表于2024-11-22
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In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. "Rhoda" goes back to the beginning of the father's second marriage and the boy's fascination with his stepmother, who has one partially closed eye. This eye becomes a metaphor for the adult world the boy can't yet see into, including sexuality and despair, which feel like the key initiating elements of the father's eventual suicide. "A Legend of Good Men" tells the story of the boy's life with his mother after his father's death through the series of men she dates. In "Sukkwan Island," an extraordinary novella, the father invites the boy home-steading for a year on a remote island in the southeastern Alaskan wilderness. As the situation spins out of control, the son witnesses his father's despair and takes matters into his own hands. In "Ketchikan," the boy is now thirty years old, searching for the origin of ruin. He tracks down Gloria, the woman his father first cheated with, and is left with the sense of "a world held in place, as it turned out, by nothing at all." Set in Fairbanks, where the author's father actually killed himself, "The Higher Blue" provides an epilogue to the collection.
大卫·范恩,1966年生于阿拉斯加阿留申群岛,成长于凯奇坎岛,毕业于斯坦福大学英文系,并获得康奈尔大学创意写作硕士。 他的第一部小说《一个自杀者的传说》由于没有文学经纪人愿意向出版社推荐而被搁置十二年。在此期间为了生活,他当了八年船长,还做过造船工作。最后他参加了格蕾丝·佩莱短篇小说奖并获奖,该书才于2007年由参与主办该奖项的马萨诸塞大学出版社出版。2010年,哈珀-柯林斯出版社再版该书,获得巨大成功,在国际上获得十多个文学奖项,包括法国美第奇外国小说奖、西班牙第一文学最佳外国小说奖、加利福尼亚图书奖、法国《快报》读者奖等,并在11个国家的40家媒体入选“年度最佳图书”名单。 在《一个自杀者的传说》之后,大卫·范恩又相继出版《驯鹿岛》、《尘土》和《公羊山》三部长篇小说。此外,他还出版了回忆录《下沉一英里》和反思美国校园枪击案的纪实作品《人间末日》。大卫·范恩曾执教斯坦福大学、康奈尔大学、佛罗里达州立大学和旧金山大学,目前是英国华威大学创意写作教授。
Conflict-filled and self-alienation packed, Legend of a Suicide is one of the most depressing stories I have ever read
评分太TMD难看了,不是我的菜
评分太TMD难看了,不是我的菜
评分Conflict-filled and self-alienation packed, Legend of a Suicide is one of the most depressing stories I have ever read
评分之前一直不敢卒读Sukkwan Island,结果却迎来意料外的惊人转折,仿佛数个平行世界并存,死亡带来的波动,替死带来的赎罪与畏惧,无法阻挡的命运,和让人唏嘘的幻想。数个版本的自杀演绎重构出的不仅是心结,还有人类自身对遭受虚无感裹挟的最深恐惧。
五个短篇和一个中篇的奇怪组合,也是真实的组合。这本书源于自杀者的不能确定的故事,自杀的不能确定的原因,以及作者对这些的一次次地思考。每一个故事都不是定论,于是读完全篇有一种真实和虚幻交织的感觉。很多地方是没有亲身经历的人写不出的东西,阿拉斯加的环境,捕鱼狩...
评分“我真是太幸运了” “我真是太幸运了,北京的天气这么好,天这么蓝,冬天刚刚过去……谢谢你索马里,给我们安排了这一切,难以想象在中国我能和你们这样讨论美国文学……我真是太幸运了。你也安排了蒙古人到箭扣长城跟我们会和作战吗?” 坐在去往箭扣长城的帕萨特里,David V...
评分“我真是太幸运了” “我真是太幸运了,北京的天气这么好,天这么蓝,冬天刚刚过去……谢谢你索马里,给我们安排了这一切,难以想象在中国我能和你们这样讨论美国文学……我真是太幸运了。你也安排了蒙古人到箭扣长城跟我们会和作战吗?” 坐在去往箭扣长城的帕萨特里,David V...
评分文=索马里 大卫•范恩(David Vann)花了二十年接受父亲的死。在29岁完成故事集Legend Of The Suicide(中文版译为《一个自杀者的传说》)之前,那个两度离异的爱好枪支的被抑郁症折磨的略带种族主义的父亲,一度也预言了他生活里最顽固的梦魇:热爱枪支、迷恋暴力、失眠,...
评分The story is very original and I can see the author is very talent. We can read it as a collection of short stories or a full novel. It presents different approaches to understand the tragedy of human being. The author develops the story in a very unique s...
Legend of a Suicide pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024