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The Emissary 豆瓣
献灯使
作者: Yoko Tawada 译者: Margaret Mitsutani New Directions 2018 - 3
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient―frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism. Yoshiro concentrates on nourishing Mumei, a strangely wonderful boy who offers “the beauty of the time that is yet to come.”
A delightful, irrepressibly funny book, The Emissary is filled with light. Yoko Tawada, deftly turning inside-out “the curse,” defies gravity and creates a playful joyous novel out of a dystopian one, with a legerdemain uniquely her own.
2022年4月2日 在读 “当代文学是一种灾难/创伤文学;当代社会是由反复的灾难和创伤构成的连通体。”—本人
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锦绣 豆瓣
作者: [日本] 宫本辉 译者: 张秋明 大众文艺出版社 2008 - 1
我抬起头眺望着星空,十年前发生过的事就像影片般,在脑海里重新上演了一次,悲伤也缓缓涌上心头。
生和死或许是同一件事情
真是不可思议呀,人生有时就是这么充满悲伤。
在你离去之后,我在原地伫立良久。
感觉好像将与你永别,好不容易忍住想哭的冲动。
为什么会有这样的情绪我也弄不清楚自己的内心。
可是我突然间很想追上你,
想问问你现在的生活究竟如何?
在和我分手后的这十年,你是怎样度过的?
可我的确沉醉在那片片鲜艳欲滴的红叶之中,
同时又感觉到有什么可怕的东西
像把冷冷的刀锋穿过了树林中的簇簇火焰。
可能是因为和你不期然的重逢,再度唤醒了我少女般的空想……
我心中尚未崩坏的部分 豆瓣
僕のなかの壊れていない部分
7.2 (22 个评分) 作者: [日本] 白石一文 译者: 陈明姿 / 王忆云 上海人民出版社 2013 - 8
★村上春树之后日本中生代最重要作家 ,直木奖、山本周五郎奖获得者白石一文畅销代表作
★五月天阿信同名致敬作品灵感之源
★日本畅销作家、电影导演村上龙特别推荐
★渡边淳一、骆以军、林真理子、五木宽之、阿刀田高倾力推荐
★独一无二的白石式寂寞书写:一曲直面生死虚妄的灵欲悲歌 一幅穿透男女爱憎的都市浮世绘
书中以男主人公的视角展开叙述,是一部敏锐探讨爱与欲、生与死等问题,既声色犬马而又充满哲思的异色小说。
从小缺乏父母关爱且家境贫寒的松原直人,成年后过着优渥而醉生梦死的都市生活。他同时与三位女性周旋着:一个是家境富足却欲壑难填的大西夫人,一个是经营酒吧的单身母亲朋美,一个则是貌美又温柔的年轻女性枝里子。这种周旋中既有万种柔情,却亦是孤独彻骨,令直人无法停止追问“生是什么?死又是什么?人为什么要活着?是为了喜欢的人还是追求平凡幸福的生活?人又如何在这冷酷异境继续存在?……”这是一场永无止境的痛苦追问,亦是一种聊以慰藉的温柔救赎……
总之,此书既有声色情节,亦有温情叹息与动人情愫和深沉哲思,是一部既好看又能发人深省的难得佳作。
逍遥游 豆瓣 Goodreads Eggplant.place
7.4 (92 个评分) 作者: 班宇 理想国|春风文艺出版社 2020 - 5
★《冬泳》之后,班宇最新作品。
收录七篇风格殊异、深具探索性的中短篇小说,呈现出更为阔大的文学面貌:干冷枯燥的风,空气里的土与尘,即逝的光,喷出的泉水,荡开的地火,不存在的文本,溺水者,迷途者……人物与故事相互嵌套,梦境与隐喻绵延不绝,一切遂变得模糊,如雾中风景。班宇像一位幽暗时代的幸存者,盗取火种、探寻原罪,穿梭于种种混沌难言的人生困境之间,并将之统统引爆,创造出一个个奇妙的神谕时刻。
★所有的化身与倒影,皆你我之名姓。
落魄的小说家、饲养蚂蚁的男人、患病的女孩、追寻彗星的爱人、消失在时间里的父亲……那些命运与生活里的历险者,栖身于雷鸣,涉水入云,持着烛火夜行,照亮山海与风。同名小说《逍遥游》列《收获》文学排行榜短篇榜首,获作家李陀长文赞誉:“他把一种十足暧昧的原生态生活原封不动地摆在我们眼前,《逍遥游》让我联想到小津安二郎。”
★为弱小者给予支持,为卑微者延续幻梦。
在盛大的寒冷里,如何保持尊严?被生活击倒之后,还有什么能点亮我们心中的微火?他们渺小、脆弱、几不可闻,又磊落、坚韧、无处不在。那些大时代中艰难挣扎过的印记,那些不可违背的誓言,那些让人恍然出神的魔幻时刻。《逍遥游》所呈现的,是每一个人在俗世生活中的自由渴望,是盛景过后我们的生活正缓缓显露的真实样貌。
★ 在混沌的日常中创造“逃逸空间”,以魔幻的方式呈现不可言说的现实。
北方不是过去,而是未来。七篇小说如同时间晶体,折射出丰富面向,充满先锋意味与实验精神。以虚构抵达真实,并在两者之间保持着精妙的平衡。在生活巨大的轰鸣声中,我们经由他的小说列车逃逸到另一时空,那里有遥远的暮星,失败的郁绿,也有明亮的温柔与落寞,人在山林里穿行,拥抱四季,经过河流,只要我们仰头,便能看见星光随行。
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《逍遥游》是班宇继《冬泳》之后的第二部小说集,收录了七篇风格殊异、故事时间向度横跨三十年的中短篇作品,呈现出更为开阔丰富的面貌。落魄的小说家、饲养蚂蚁的男人、患病的女孩、追寻彗星的爱人、消失在时间里的父亲……他们身陷一片大雾之中,在摇摇欲坠的光芒里,却总想着笨拙起舞。这些故事浸润着社会变迁中人们的阵痛与印记,书写璀璨与暗淡、希望与绝望之间,我们真实的怯懦、渴望、困顿和挣扎。溺水者想要上岸透口气,迷途者等待一个晴夜。暗夜不会永远深不见底,因我们一旦选择仰头,便能看见星光随行。
班宇以精湛的叙事深入日常生活的肌理,在混沌之中创造出沉静的“飞升时刻”,形成一种让人耳目一新的叙述语调:如中国北方的自然环境一般,严苛、寒冷而富于诗意。一切凡俗与苦痛在他笔下变得澄澈如冰,开阔邃远。我们也共同听见了那些被历史与日常掩藏的呜咽,并为之停驻片刻。
Behind the Beautiful Forevers 豆瓣
作者: Katherine Boo Random House 2012 - 2
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”

But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.