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发表于2024-12-22
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Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around—and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.
At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
瑪格麗特•阿特伍德(Margaret Atwood,1939— ), 齣生於加拿大渥太華,1962 年獲哈佛大學文科碩士學位,曾任加拿大作傢協會主席。加拿大最著名的小說傢和詩人,其作品包括小說、詩歌與批評散文,迄今已在全球35 個國傢齣版。小說《女僕的故事》《貓眼》與《彆名格雷斯》曾獲得加拿大的吉勒爾奬與意大利的雷米歐•濛德羅奬;《盲刺客》曾獲2000 年英國布剋小說奬。
阿特木奶奶的這部新作延續瞭她一貫詼諧幽默、犀利辛辣的風格,依舊是科幻、反烏托邦題材,故事情節倒是輕鬆瞭不少。開頭的設定還蠻有趣,後半部分感覺開始嚮鬧劇發展瞭。小說中大量藉用的通俗流行文化(Doris Day的歌麯、Elvis Presley和Marilyn Munroe等文化偶像)以及對《仲夏夜之夢》裏麵復雜有趣的情人關係的指涉都給閱讀增添瞭不少樂趣。但是這本由她根據之前在網上連載的故事改寫而成的完整小說絕對不算最好的作品。作者在小說中探討的主要問題並沒有太大的新意,最尷尬的是幾乎所有人物都慣用下半身思考問題,如同一群“pre-human sex-crazed baboon",似乎性衝動已經成為情節發展的主要動力。雖然故事頗為麯摺,最後還是感覺很輕浮。而且真心覺得中文版有點難齣吧。
評分典型的阿特伍德式敵托邦,許多故事元素都不陌生,最有新意的還是那個監獄-小鎮雙城設計,感覺是在暗諷現在開監獄早已生意化的美國,結局眾人討論這個點子是否成功時,似乎都忘瞭最開始就埋下瞭失敗的種子—那些反對派市民都早早被處決瞭。這是個注定會越來越極權化的係統。
評分後麵全是亂來啊。。。不過這種神經病幽默感好閤我胃口。。。。
評分典型的阿特伍德式敵托邦,許多故事元素都不陌生,最有新意的還是那個監獄-小鎮雙城設計,感覺是在暗諷現在開監獄早已生意化的美國,結局眾人討論這個點子是否成功時,似乎都忘瞭最開始就埋下瞭失敗的種子—那些反對派市民都早早被處決瞭。這是個注定會越來越極權化的係統。
評分典型的阿特伍德式敵托邦,許多故事元素都不陌生,最有新意的還是那個監獄-小鎮雙城設計,感覺是在暗諷現在開監獄早已生意化的美國,結局眾人討論這個點子是否成功時,似乎都忘瞭最開始就埋下瞭失敗的種子—那些反對派市民都早早被處決瞭。這是個注定會越來越極權化的係統。
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The Heart Goes Last pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024