圖書標籤: 短篇小說 西班牙文學 西班牙 公共圖書館 Javier-Marías
发表于2024-12-23
While the Women are Sleeping pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his generation, Javier Marias is best known for his spy trilogy, "Your Face Tomorrow", which has been compared to Proust and hailed as one of the great modern European novels. In his first short story collection for fifteen years, beautifully translated by Margaret Jull Costa, he brings together tales which span his entire writing career from the 1960s to the present. Marias' characters are slippery, and they live on the edges of society: a tramp, a butler, a bodyguard, a ghost. They threaten the everyday, rational world, and, compelled by desperation, are driven to perverse acts of obsession. In the title story an obscenely fat man fixated with his much younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and, in a chance midnight rendezvous, confides his shocking plans for her to a stranger; in "The Resignation Letter of Senor of Santiesteban" a ghost is condemned to repeatedly resign from his job; and in perhaps the most perfectly conceived story, when a man of impeccable taste and refinement meets his doppelganger at a work dinner ('it was like dining opposite mirror made flesh'), he starts changing his dress and behaviour, in ways he previously would have abhorred, to mark the difference, only to find, at the next work convention, that his ghoulish twin has done exactly the same. Mesmerising, unexpected and disturbing, these creepy, haunting stories inspire the reader to look at the normal things of life aslant.
Javier Marías was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid.
Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, Los dominios del lobo (The Dominions of the Wolf), at age 17, after running away to Paris.
Marías operates a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda. He also writes a weekly column in El País. An English version of his column "La Zona Fantasma" is published in the monthly magazine The Believer.
三星半。想像奇譎,既富哲思又有浪漫情懷,不過感覺Marias在長篇小說裏更能展現自己獨特的寫作風格和韻味。這部集子裏好幾個故事都是講的鬼魂,尤其是根據早先的一個故事'No More Love'改成的'A Kind of Nostalgia Perhaps'講的是人鬼情,浪漫又傷感;"The Resignation Letter'裏人與鬼最終跨越界限成為朋友的故事也很好玩;'Gualta'本來寫男主人公與他的doppelganger 之間較勁其實也是老梗瞭,作者卻把關注點轉嚮瞭自我與double盲目較勁後可能的惡果。標題小說則是Marias作品的典型代錶,通過敘述者的目光去挖掘日常生活中被我們看作常態的現象和事件,還以略帶懸疑的寫作手法慢慢將讀者引入思想深處,近距離思考生活裏容易被忽略的細節。
評分馬裏亞斯的小故事總是充滿瞭意想不到~比起長篇裏那些連綿不絕的句子,短篇裏都是驚喜和贊嘆,還有那些似是而非的猜測和迴味~這本收錄的作品相對較早,看到瞭青澀時期馬裏亞斯的創作,已然有瞭獨特的講故事技巧~
評分三星半。想像奇譎,既富哲思又有浪漫情懷,不過感覺Marias在長篇小說裏更能展現自己獨特的寫作風格和韻味。這部集子裏好幾個故事都是講的鬼魂,尤其是根據早先的一個故事'No More Love'改成的'A Kind of Nostalgia Perhaps'講的是人鬼情,浪漫又傷感;"The Resignation Letter'裏人與鬼最終跨越界限成為朋友的故事也很好玩;'Gualta'本來寫男主人公與他的doppelganger 之間較勁其實也是老梗瞭,作者卻把關注點轉嚮瞭自我與double盲目較勁後可能的惡果。標題小說則是Marias作品的典型代錶,通過敘述者的目光去挖掘日常生活中被我們看作常態的現象和事件,還以略帶懸疑的寫作手法慢慢將讀者引入思想深處,近距離思考生活裏容易被忽略的細節。
評分馬裏亞斯的小故事總是充滿瞭意想不到~比起長篇裏那些連綿不絕的句子,短篇裏都是驚喜和贊嘆,還有那些似是而非的猜測和迴味~這本收錄的作品相對較早,看到瞭青澀時期馬裏亞斯的創作,已然有瞭獨特的講故事技巧~
評分三星半。想像奇譎,既富哲思又有浪漫情懷,不過感覺Marias在長篇小說裏更能展現自己獨特的寫作風格和韻味。這部集子裏好幾個故事都是講的鬼魂,尤其是根據早先的一個故事'No More Love'改成的'A Kind of Nostalgia Perhaps'講的是人鬼情,浪漫又傷感;"The Resignation Letter'裏人與鬼最終跨越界限成為朋友的故事也很好玩;'Gualta'本來寫男主人公與他的doppelganger 之間較勁其實也是老梗瞭,作者卻把關注點轉嚮瞭自我與double盲目較勁後可能的惡果。標題小說則是Marias作品的典型代錶,通過敘述者的目光去挖掘日常生活中被我們看作常態的現象和事件,還以略帶懸疑的寫作手法慢慢將讀者引入思想深處,近距離思考生活裏容易被忽略的細節。
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While the Women are Sleeping pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024