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发表于2024-12-24
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Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead – has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or “scratcher.”
Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England – including, tellingly, a girls’ school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women – from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda’s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym.
Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack’s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, “sleeping in the needles” and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist’s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can’t get rid of.
Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older – and when his mother dies – he starts to doubt the portrait of his father’s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force.
A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life’s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving’s great novels, and restates the author’s claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.
約翰·歐文
John Irving
1942年齣生於美國新罕布什爾州的埃剋塞特。歐美當代文壇的世界級暢銷作傢,其作品被譯為超過35種語言,擅長敘事,擅寫親情、成長、性彆等主題。
1980年,歐文以《蓋普眼中的世界》獲美國國傢圖書奬;2000年,以《蘋果酒屋的規則》獲第72屆奧斯卡最佳改編劇本奬。代錶作有《蓋普眼中的世界》《新罕布什爾旅館》《蘋果酒屋的規則》《為歐文·米尼祈禱》《寡居的一年》等。
我们的人生故事,搭建在一个个记忆板块的铆合之中。 看似连续的完整的记忆板块,时常被错构着。 恐惧和羞耻、悲伤和愤怒,让板块的搭建次序变得不可控。 青年时,我们用合理化的瓷砖铺满外墙,让人生之塔高耸而亮丽。 及至中年,登塔而苍凉。不禁重新审视过往,惊觉塔不是塔。 ...
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