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发表于2024-11-08
Beauty Is a Wound pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million "Communists," followed by three decades of Suharto's despotic rule.
Beauty Is a Wound astonishes from its opening line: "One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years…" Drawing on local sources—folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope—and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan's distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature.
Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya in 1975 and completed his studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at Gadjah Mada University. He has been described as the “brightest meteorite” in Indonesia’s new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels which have brought comparisons to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez and Mark Twain; the English translations of these novels were both published in 2015—Man Tiger by Verso Books, and Beauty is a Wound by New Directions in North America and Text Publishing in Australia. Kurniawan has also written movie scripts, a graphic novel, essays on literature and two collections of short stories. He currently resides in Jakarta.
写到Ai, Krisan和Rengganis第三代的时候节奏和内容双双崩坏。最后一章恶灵出现将立意崩坏到无以复加。所以家族的恩怨最终是因为恶灵诅咒,而不是人的立场和选择以及历史背景在起作用的结果了。 看到一半的时候评价这本书算得上是杜尔布鲁岛四部曲的魔幻现实版本。看到后半截发现这本书远远达不到前者的思想水平,甚至对历史的还原水平也差得太多。整个五十年代的共和国、殖民者和地方主义的撕扯匆匆几笔带过,40-60年代的现代派和传统派伊斯兰教势力与军队和共产党的纠葛的在书中是空白。个人认为对这本书的评价过誉了,不及Ayu Utami。
评分真的被这书traumatize了。放假俩礼拜后躺在床上想起来,感觉特别不好。
评分真的被这书traumatize了。放假俩礼拜后躺在床上想起来,感觉特别不好。
评分Consist of many love stories and legends which loaded with pornography, and mingled with sections of Indonesian history. Kangen Cilacap, udah tiga tahun disana, itu lebih seperti rumahku. Kangen matabak, kangen Puwerkerto, kangen Nova.
评分算得上一部很好看的小说,各种神话,尺度大以及匪夷所思的故事……作者讲故事驾轻就熟,印象最深的是在不同的时间当中穿梭来回,有时一句话就跨越了几十年。 不过,全都是flat characters,完全无法真正与人物感同身受。靠尺度吸引人读下去,最后把一切上升到爱,复仇,和美,听起来很厉害的样子,但是合上书之后完全感受不到。“pornography”倒是一个简单粗暴又直接的归类。 另外看完想去印尼旅游了……
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Beauty Is a Wound pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024