Marie N'Diaye — Author (4)
Self-Portrait in Green [Book] Goodreads
author: Marie NDiaye / Jordan Stump publishing house: Two Lines Press 2014 - 11
It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising floodwaters, walking corpses, eerie depictions of her very own parents, and the incessant reappearance of women in green. Just who are these green women? They are powerful (one was NDiaye’s disciplinarian grade-school teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost and may be visible only to the author). They are seductive (one stole a friend’s husband). And they are unbearably personal (one is NDiaye’s own mother). They are all, in their way, aspects of their creator, at once frightening, menacing, and revealing of everything submerged within the consciousness of this singular literary talent. A courageous, strikingly honest, and unabashedly innovative self-portrait, NDiaye’s kaleidoscopic look at the women in green is a revelation to us all — about how we form our identities, how we discover those things we repress, and how our obsessions become us.
La sorcière [Book] Goodreads
author: Marie NDiaye publishing house: France Loisirs 1997 - 1
Lucie n'est pas une sorcière talentueuse. Ses deux filles, elles, se révèlent extrêmement douées, au-delà des prétentions et des espoirs de Lucie qui n'aspirait qu'à en faire des sorcières efficaces. Quant à la mère de Lucie, son génie est absolu. Mais qui sont les corneilles ? Est-on plus libre, de prendre la place des oiseaux, leur forme et leur aspect, et d'imiter leur cri ?
女大厨 [Book] Douban
La Cheffe, roman d'une cuisinière
author: 玛丽·恩迪亚耶 translator: 余中先 2018 - 4
小说的叙述者是位男性,是小说主人公女大厨的助手。叙述者以自己的目光叙述波尔多一位女厨师的生活,叙述她在一个农业工人家庭度过的童年,她后来如何开餐馆,她的青年时代,最初的厨艺经历,她的数位老板兼美食老师,由于她女儿商业学校毕业后在餐馆推行一套荒诞规则而导致企业破产的经历,她在厨艺达到巅峰状态、成为著名美食大师后的平常人心态等。
女巫师 [Book] Douban
La Sorcière
author: 玛丽·恩迪亚耶 translator: 姜小文 / 王林佳 publishing house: 湖南文艺出版社 1999 - 7
自从在中学的凳子上写成了她的第一部小说,玛丽・恩迪耶就一直在营造一个完全属于她自己的世界.她的书,无论我们怎样抖动,都不会掉下什么东西来,因为书里的内容全是必不可少的.她采用一些简单的标记,没有回答的问句,各种各样的惊叹,使用我们在一个不安的、疑惑的世界里东摇西晃。她不愿意只是玩弄一些普通情感的游戏。她把那些显得过于温柔的怜悯的倾向打碎了。她弄乱了线索。她用泪代替笑。和所有伟大的作家一样,玛丽・恩迪耶让我们着迷。
在写作两部带有自传色彩的家庭故事――《在家里》和《女巫师》――之间,她突发奇想地用一种荒诞笔法戏弄了巴黎人的优越感,当然,就像加伊一样,这只是贴附在外面的一个皮层。恩迪耶更感兴趣的是将故事推向残酷的边缘:让教授埃尔曼永远回不了巴黎,让一家人永远不能团聚,这种痛苦将随着小镇的禁忌日趋合理化而成为一种快乐。多年后,埃尔曼教授准能发现,他的生命之所以被凝固是因为他完全认识了自己――就像恩迪耶认为不应当赶走尾随而至的无名动物,而应当停下脚步呼唤它一样。