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发表于2024-11-05
The Puttermesser Papers pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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
在大多數大學畢業生的印象裏,辛西婭·歐芝剋就是那個《大披巾》(The Shawl)的作者。這篇在1980年發錶的短篇小說以一個描述人在痛苦中變得迷失的鏡頭開始,“斯黛拉(Stella),冷,冷,就像在地獄裏一樣。”小說裏,羅莎(Rosa)在大屠殺中失去瞭她的孩子,但是歐芝剋以冷酷的筆觸按照她的節奏行文,讓讀者直到最後一頁纔得以傾泄過於豐富的淚水,直到最後一頁,羅莎發齣瞭她自己無聲的哀嚎。
隨後成為中篇小說《羅莎》的一部分的《大披巾》對於歐芝剋來說,就好像是海明威(Ernest Hemingway)的《一個乾淨明亮的地方》(A Clean, Well-Lighted Place),或者,威廉·福剋納(William Faulkner)的《獻給愛米麗的玫瑰》(A Rose for Emily)。對於擅長幽默諷刺筆觸的歐芝剋來說,《大披巾》這樣沉重的故事如同一個異數。在1969年發布的《嫉妒,或美國的依地語》(Envy, or Yiddish in America)裏,被人們所遺忘的依地語詩人艾丁斯坦(Edelshtein)無法抑製他對於一個靠模仿艾薩剋·巴什維斯·辛格(Isaac Bashevis Singer)的暢銷書作傢的憤怒。一個反猶分子對他說,“我們的上帝是贊揚愛的上帝,而你們的是宣揚仇恨憤怒的。”1987年的《斯德哥爾摩的彌撒》中,因為大屠殺而成為孤兒的男人生活在瑞典這個並不關心文學的國傢。長著深色頭發的他相信自己是被納粹謀殺的波蘭猶太籍作傢布魯諾·舒爾茨(Bruno Schulz)的兒子。歐芝剋最富喜劇色彩的作品是1997年發錶的《帕特麥斯檔案》(The Puttermesser Papers)。一個希伯來神話中的引導者將書呆子露絲·帕特麥斯帶到瞭紐約市長的位置。而歐芝剋最新的著作是2004年齣版的《微微發光世界的繼承人》(Heir to the Glimmering World),兩年後,她齣版瞭第五本散文集《腦中的喧鬧》(Din in the Head),而她最新的故事集是今年春天麵世的《聽寫:四重唱》(Dictation: A Quartet)。
今年,80歲的歐芝剋獲得瞭來自美國作傢組織PEN America Center的兩個重要奬項,納博剋夫(Nabokov)奬金授予她的文體,馬拉默德(Malamud)則是為她的短篇故事集而頒。
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The Puttermesser Papers pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024