Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer.
His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller.
In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel’s colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim’s widow skips town. Lionel’s world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
By Lily “在抽搐中,寻找宁静,这是生存的真相,但这真相需要透过一个病态的人受折磨的翻译给我们听,才听进去了。”这是一段对《布鲁克林的孤儿》的推荐语。当读完全书,回头再看这句话时,更多的,是对自身的唏嘘和感慨。 《Motherless Brooklyn》,是1999年National Book...
評分就故事本身来说,只是一个普通的侦探故事,并不复杂,相比起那些真正的推理小说,它的推理成分很少,线索之间的串联主要靠主人公的灵光一闪。 本书的亮点在于主人公是一个妥瑞氏症患者。所谓妥瑞氏症,就是患者会不由自主地挤眉弄眼、口吐脏话以及模仿他人。就拿主人公来说,...
評分翻译后就没味道了,原文的精彩之处却变成了味同嚼蜡毫不押韵的文字堆砌,我当然不是质疑译者的水平,而是这类书本就不适合译成中文,有能力的朋友们还是看原版吧,应该是本好书,这是作者的成功,译者的煎熬,读者的郁闷,引进者的失败
評分妥瑞氏症,这个词已经不是我第一次看到了。之前,看电影《叫我第一名》中的主角也换有这种疾病。除了都遭受这种困扰外,他们都有不服输,想要证明自己的决心,或者说 他们只是想过上平凡的生活。 上帝并不是公平的,有些人天生丽质,而有些人从出生就疾病缠身。...
評分很早曾承诺为这本书写代序来着,很囧地拖到了写书评的时间,又拖着不肯写,突然发现文档里这几行字,就贴出来吧。 ------------ 后现代侦探的命运 侦探小说看多了,可以总结出几大套路来。疑凶必然不是真凶,逼真描写的必然不是真实,...
作者的寫作風格很特彆,或者是因為他描寫的主人公有疾病的關係吧。一開始很難進入,堅持聽到一半後,節奏加快,就好讀很多瞭。
评分作者的寫作風格很特彆,或者是因為他描寫的主人公有疾病的關係吧。一開始很難進入,堅持聽到一半後,節奏加快,就好讀很多瞭。
评分Very enjoyable and well-written (if somewhat light) new take on old-fashioned potboiler fiction. The narrator's Tourette's outbursts of free association are the high point, or at least were for me. I don't envy any Chinese translator who takes this one on -- it'll be a tough gig.
评分作者的寫作風格很特彆,或者是因為他描寫的主人公有疾病的關係吧。一開始很難進入,堅持聽到一半後,節奏加快,就好讀很多瞭。
评分Very enjoyable and well-written (if somewhat light) new take on old-fashioned potboiler fiction. The narrator's Tourette's outbursts of free association are the high point, or at least were for me. I don't envy any Chinese translator who takes this one on -- it'll be a tough gig.
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