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发表于2024-12-23
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Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel.
And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her short stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
同样是写失意者的故事,耶茨的笔调很柔和有温情,作者却是冷酷,刻薄。作者的声音太独特了,最后一篇故事确实让我的神经感到不安,一股我所不熟悉的邪恶气息。所有人的不如意,都不是外在环境协迫的结果,这已经是一个很好的故乡了。
评分同样是写失意者的故事,耶茨的笔调很柔和有温情,作者却是冷酷,刻薄。作者的声音太独特了,最后一篇故事确实让我的神经感到不安,一股我所不熟悉的邪恶气息。所有人的不如意,都不是外在环境协迫的结果,这已经是一个很好的故乡了。
评分无能略病态的叙述者们普遍处于一种"Sehnsucht"的心理状态:他们卑贱、但对当下未完成和残缺的生存状态有全面感知,同时幻想着理想化的替代生活。歌德:"Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" ("Only he who knows yearning") 。叙述者们的绝望部分由他们的边缘状态造成,另一部分他们自己也无法解释;他们就像游荡在自我意识边缘、孤独不满和不安的骑手。 “生活有时会很奇怪,而即使知道这一点也无法让生活变得正常些。” 不少小说家喜欢让角色围绕自身的动机和欲望迂回地表达和行事,而Moshfegh笔下的角色大都直白而不加掩饰。Makes the unlikable understandable.
评分同样是写失意者的故事,耶茨的笔调很柔和有温情,作者却是冷酷,刻薄。作者的声音太独特了,最后一篇故事确实让我的神经感到不安,一股我所不熟悉的邪恶气息。所有人的不如意,都不是外在环境协迫的结果,这已经是一个很好的故乡了。
评分A cohesive study of base instincts, delusional thinking, and physical grotesqueness--exploding pimples, shitty breath, sticking fingers into throats and buttholes... An exercise in character building, but a mediocre attempt at plot. Annoyingly inauthentic when voicing 'Chinese' characters. Like Beach Boys, An Honest Woman, and A Better Place.
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Homesick for Another World pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024