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发表于2024-11-23
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With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality."
Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists.
"The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." - The New York Times
"A crazy delight." - The New York Time Book Review
在大多数大学毕业生的印象里,辛西娅·欧芝克就是那个《大披巾》(The Shawl)的作者。这篇在1980年发表的短篇小说以一个描述人在痛苦中变得迷失的镜头开始,“斯黛拉(Stella),冷,冷,就像在地狱里一样。”小说里,罗莎(Rosa)在大屠杀中失去了她的孩子,但是欧芝克以冷酷的笔触按照她的节奏行文,让读者直到最后一页才得以倾泄过于丰富的泪水,直到最后一页,罗莎发出了她自己无声的哀嚎。
随后成为中篇小说《罗莎》的一部分的《大披巾》对于欧芝克来说,就好像是海明威(Ernest Hemingway)的《一个干净明亮的地方》(A Clean, Well-Lighted Place),或者,威廉·福克纳(William Faulkner)的《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》(A Rose for Emily)。对于擅长幽默讽刺笔触的欧芝克来说,《大披巾》这样沉重的故事如同一个异数。在1969年发布的《嫉妒,或美国的依地语》(Envy, or Yiddish in America)里,被人们所遗忘的依地语诗人艾丁斯坦(Edelshtein)无法抑制他对于一个靠模仿艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格(Isaac Bashevis Singer)的畅销书作家的愤怒。一个反犹分子对他说,“我们的上帝是赞扬爱的上帝,而你们的是宣扬仇恨愤怒的。”1987年的《斯德哥尔摩的弥撒》中,因为大屠杀而成为孤儿的男人生活在瑞典这个并不关心文学的国家。长着深色头发的他相信自己是被纳粹谋杀的波兰犹太籍作家布鲁诺·舒尔茨(Bruno Schulz)的儿子。欧芝克最富喜剧色彩的作品是1997年发表的《帕特麦斯档案》(The Puttermesser Papers)。一个希伯来神话中的引导者将书呆子露丝·帕特麦斯带到了纽约市长的位置。而欧芝克最新的著作是2004年出版的《微微发光世界的继承人》(Heir to the Glimmering World),两年后,她出版了第五本散文集《脑中的喧闹》(Din in the Head),而她最新的故事集是今年春天面世的《听写:四重唱》(Dictation: A Quartet)。
今年,80岁的欧芝克获得了来自美国作家组织PEN America Center的两个重要奖项,纳博克夫(Nabokov)奖金授予她的文体,马拉默德(Malamud)则是为她的短篇故事集而颁。
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The Puttermesser Papers pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024