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太陰暗 棄瞭
評分很多作傢作品的收錄,有些沒太明白,有些挺有意思的。
評分很多作傢作品的收錄,有些沒太明白,有些挺有意思的。
評分購於華沙火車站。村上自己寫的birthday girl其實並沒有很看懂 倒是很應景的。。。還是好喜歡Claire Keegan!選集很用心呀好評!
評分太陰暗 棄瞭
有關生日的現代短篇小說選集,村上春樹選,也有他的一篇。
Birthday Stories, edited by Haruki Murakami, is a slight dose of morphine for those who are waiting for the English translation of his latest novel, Kafka on Shore. This "timeless anthology" of short stories brings the readers to see birthdays at different angles. There are sober birthdays, and also sweet ones. Stories are selected to provide a wide range of writing styles, from contemporary writer Andrea Lee and Ethan Canin to the famous Raymond Craver, Paul Theroux and Murakami himself. Personally, my favourite picks in the book include: "The Moor" by Russell Banks (a man meeting a woman accidentally on her birthday thirty years later and a love affair involving an age difference of decades is revisited); "Timothy's Birthday" (about how Timothy draws away from his parents after his homoosexual partner died in the previous year); "The Birthday Cake" by Daniel Lyons (a mother who insists on not giving away a cake for their children who are not coming home for celebration); "The Bath" by Raymond Craver (the parental worries on concern on the car accdient of their beloved birthday son; the ending is particularly thought-provoking) and "Close to the Water's Edge" by Claire Keegan (an eminent Harvard student failing to change his lifestyle on his birthday).
The first book I picked up by Ethan Canin was his collection of short stories called The Palace Thief. His writing style already haunted me at that time. What amazes me more in his "Angel of Mercy, Angel of Wrath" is his fast-paced plot and the delicate treatment of the psychology of a paranoid and ignored birthday mother. The dialogues are simple but powerful, short by revealing.
Let's talk about the dose of Murakami morphine. His story "Birthday Girl" is simple and consise to bring out the message that no matter what we wish on our birthdays, we are still what we are. Wishes for a change in fact do not, or cannot, change anything at all". This is similar to the everything-happens-for-a-reason theory in Wild Sheel Chase. The birthday girl in the story does not tell the narrator what she wished on her 20th birthday. Does it matter? Her life still goes on like normal.(Remind me of the ending shot in Lost in Translation!)
This anthology is a fast-read. All the stories in the anthology are very solid, nothing pretentious. It is definitely one of the books you may pick out if you have no dates on the forthcoming birthday - a great birthday companion. What should be mentioned here is the poem (or lyrics?) written by Paul Simon at the beginning of the anthology - "Have a good time". How many of us really had a good time on our past birthdays? Or how many of us expected so? Will we have a (un)happy birthday next year? We don't know. But the characters in the stories tell us that they have something to grasp on theirs - the readers.
都已经忘记自己20岁生日是如何度过的了,而一转眼就要到30大关了,自己20岁的时候正值金融危机爆发的前一年,准备开始找工作。村上的最后一篇文章《生日女郎》,到结尾也没有提到生日女郎的心愿到底是什么,只提到是一个“是花时间的心愿”,后文中又提到当下她的生活状态。作...
評分 評分 評分本想待到生日月再拆,想想作罢,形式感过度会变矫情,本身人已经够矫情的啦!哈! 捧起红色封面的《生日故事集》,平白联想起红白封面的杜鲁门·卡波特的《圣诞忆旧集》,同是小小的开本。不过那本由于同样的矫情原因,还在书柜一角等待不知哪年圣诞会突如其来的宠幸。 村上...
評分Birthday Stories -- Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024