Percival Everett — 作者 (7)
The Trees [图书] 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Percival Everett publishing house: Graywolf Press 2021 - 9
Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.
The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America’s pulse.
James [图书] 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Percival Everett publishing house: Doubleday 2024 - 3
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
Los árboles [图书] Goodreads
作者: Percival Everett / Javier Calvo publishing house: De Conatus 2023 - 2
Novela policiaca, comedia mordaz, caricatura del supremacismo blanco, Los árboles es una mezcla de elementos ejecutada con valentía, audacia y genialidad; una narración que no deja indiferente, que actúa como un puñetazo, y que está llamada a recordar, a fijar en la memoria, lo que aún no ha sido superado

Everett parte de un acontecimiento real, la atroz matanza, un 28 de agosto de 1955, de Emmett Till, un adolescente de color, nacido en Chicago, que estando de vacaciones con familiares en Money, Mississippi, fue acusado por una mujer blanca, Carolyn Bryant, de haber coqueteado con ella, motivo que bastó a su hermano y a su marido para asesinarlo cruelmente, mutilando su cuerpo y lanzándolo al río Tallahatchie. La madre del muchacho decidió que en su funeral el ataúd permaneciera abierto para que se conociera
la brutalidad de los hechos, lo cual contribuyó a acaparar aún más titulares de prensa, conmocionó a gran parte de la población y activó la lucha por los Derechos Civiles.
James [图书] Goodreads
作者: Percival Everett publishing house: Doubleday 2024 - 3
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
X [图书] Goodreads
作者: Percival Everett / Marta Alcaraz publishing house: Blackie Books 2011 - 3
Thelonious Ellison es profesor universitario, narrador y negro. Su nombre, por cierto, sólo contiene dos primeras referencias y juegos intertextuales entre las muchas que el lector puede jugar a descubrir, aunque posiblemente se quede corto, y tanto da, porque X tiene tantos niveles de lectura como lectores posibles. Pero Ellison no es lo bastante negro para el gusto de la industria editorial: no escribe textos de "blacksploitation" ambientados en el gueto, de esos que consiguen anticipos de millones y acaban adaptándose en Hollywood y que, además, pasan por auténticos y de arte y ensayo. Y sin embargo, podría hacerlo con la mano izquierda. Pero decir que este libro es una crítica o una parodia de la industria es hacer una lectura cultural tan superficial como lo que se supone que el libro critica, porque, entre otras muchas cosas, este es un libro sobre la familia y el amor, filial y a los literatura, sobre la identidad del escritor, pero también de la persona: sobre la (im)posibilidad de transliterar la vida y sobre todo lo que ocurre fuera de los libros.
The Trees [图书] Goodreads
作者: Percival Everett publishing house: Graywolf Press 2021 - 9
An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US. The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.
擦除:奧斯卡得獎電影《美式小說》原著 [图书] 博客來
Erasure
作者: Percival Everett 译者: 楊詠翔 publishing house: 大塊文化 2025 - 7


  ◎二十一世紀紐約時報百大好書第20名。
  ◎改編電影《美式小說》獲奧斯卡最佳改編劇本、多倫多影展觀眾選擇大獎、「2023年AFI獎」10部最佳電影
  ◎2024年普立茲獎、美國國家圖書獎得主艾佛列特的經典之作。

  這個世界要求你自我介紹兩次──
  第一次是你真正的樣子,第二次是別人告訴你該有的樣子。

  作家書不賣,家庭破碎,經紀人抱怨他寫的東西「不夠黑」,如何是好?

  我走到文學書區,沒看見我的書,
  我走到當代小說書區,也沒看見我的書,
  但當我退後幾步時,我找到一個叫作非裔美國人研究的區域……
  放了四本我的書,包括我的《波斯人》,
  不過那本書乍看之下唯一和非裔美國人有關的地方,就只有我在書衣上的作者照而已。

  席隆尼斯‧「孟克」‧艾利森的寫作生涯陷入谷底:他最新的手稿已被十七家出版社拒絕,這讓他格外受挫,畢竟他的前幾本小說可是「備受評論肯定」。他置身文壇邊緣,眼睜睜看著一本出自新人作家胡安妮塔‧梅‧詹金斯之手的小說:《我們住在貧民窟》迅速爆紅,滿是對非裔美國人群體的刻板印象,而她所謂的真實經驗,不過是「去哈林區拜訪親戚幾天而已」。

  與此同時,孟克還得面對現實生活中的家庭悲劇——年邁的母親罹患阿茲海默症,病情急轉直下;他也仍未從七年前父親自殺的陰影中走出。

  在憤怒與絕望之下,孟克匆忙寫出一本小說,意在嘲諷胡安妮塔那本暢銷書,並乘著怒氣要經紀人廣推這份稿子。他原本並沒有打算讓這部名為《我有病》的作品出版,更不認為有人會當真,但它卻真的出版了,以六十萬美金售出版權,用的還是「史泰格‧R‧利伊」這個假名,書名改成了《幹》。

  很快地,這本小說成為文壇新寵。

  孟克將如何面對突如其來的庭變故,並挺過這場荒謬的職涯風暴?

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各界讚譽

  「二十多年前,遠在這部小說被改編成奧斯卡得獎電影之前,艾佛列特就巧妙地以文學諷刺手法描繪出一個世界:在那裡,一位才智過人的小說家兼教授席隆尼斯‧「孟克」‧艾利森,唯有委屈創作出最符合刻板印象、最像貧民窟的黑人苦難形象時,才得以贏得主流成功。要是接下來這幾十年能讓這個概念顯得荒謬過時就好了;可惜,即使是二○二三年的改編電影,唯一改變的,只有片名:《美式小說》(American Fiction)。」──《紐約時報》二十一世紀百大好書推薦詞

  「本書展示了美國愚蠢的種族刻板印象,也顯現了我們的文化是如何閹割過去,如何否認我們自身的歷史的。我們太快假設,也太快遺忘,艾佛列特絕對是我們應該持續關注的作家。」——《花花公子》(Playboy)

  「在令人太常認為是枯燥平庸的文學沙漠中,堪稱是綠洲,艾佛列特的作品……永遠都充滿智慧、有趣、形式大膽、滿懷知識野心……(本書的書中書)更是極度齷齪惡毒,且非常非常有趣的寫作,極盡惡毒之能事嘲諷著貧民窟類型書寫的種種陳腔濫調。」——《洛杉磯周報》(L.A. Weekly)

  「艾佛列特筆下的傑作,他在這個尖銳卻充滿詩意又慈悲為懷的故事之中,歡天喜地炸開了我們對於政治/種族正確的觀念。這是本才華洋溢之作,一定要口耳相傳呼朋引伴推薦,且也保證絕對比你聽說的還要讚。」——《州報》(The State,南卡羅來納州哥倫比亞)

  「輕薄短小、緊湊紮實、惡意滿滿,(書中書)則是堪稱現代版的《憨第德》,快節奏又有趣。」——《舊金山紀事報》(San Francisco Chronicle)

  「艾佛列特對美國出版業及讀者所提出的尖銳諷刺可說色香味俱全,不過在玻璃心、受過教育、想讀點有關黑人貧民窟生活的嚴肅內容,卻又不想鬆動自身刻板印象的那個階級裡,可能不會幫他贏得太多朋友的青睞就是了。」——《芝加哥論壇報》(Chicago Tribune)

  「本書值得所有人的關注,無論黑白,只要對幽微質問『黑和白』一詞的精雕細琢小說有興趣就行了。」——《圖書雜誌》(Book Magazine),湯姆‧勒克爾(Tom LeClair)

  「以尖銳又有趣的方式,檢視了種族主義與出版這一行:編輯、出版社、讀者、作家都無一倖免。」——《書單雜誌》(Booklist),凡妮莎‧布希(Vanessa Bush)

  「我為什麼喜歡帕西瓦‧艾佛列特的這本新小說呢?因為,就像他筆下的所有小說,本書也相當膽大妄為,其中也不只包含極度引人入勝的故事本身,還包括描述了人性之中最不可或缺的極壞與極好。在情節、對白、純粹的創新上,艾佛列特令人欽佩,是我輩作家中妥協最少的一個,而這本小說的結構也相當天才,本書折射了所謂的美國經驗,接著又大力重塑。席隆尼斯‧艾利森,身為一名作家呢,也是我數十年來,遇見過最尖銳、最慧黠、也最令人難忘的角色之一!」——霍華德‧諾曼(Howard Norman),作家

  「諧擬之中還有諧擬,錯綜複雜彼此交錯成一道雙重字謎,本書可說是針對種族議題,最為無禮的書寫,自從……嗯,簡直前無古人。這就是假如勞夫‧艾利森筆下的隱形人爬出他的黑洞,然後說,『喲,老媽。』的話,會看起來的樣子。」——麗莎‧齊德納(Lisa Zeidner),作家

  「帕西瓦‧艾佛列特這本書中的憤怒和才華洋溢,會讓你想起《隱形人》,不過其中諷刺的機智,全是出自艾佛列特之手。半數時間我都想笑到哭出來,另一半時間我則是想飛進正正當當的暴怒之中,然後去展開……算了,當我沒說吧。」——麥迪遜‧史馬特‧貝爾(Madison Smartt Bell),作家