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发表于2025-03-18
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抑郁中坐等删失
评分故事很奇特。只能用奇特来描述。书中的中国元素多多少少感觉有点雷同,有些情节有点牵强。但是不失为一个好故事。
评分末世病毒的侵袭 不如看到过于熟悉的坐标下城市衰败崩塌心悸 果然是生活化的场景最有冲击力 - To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?
评分反资本主义和消费主义的内核,这个shen fever实在太像COVID. 前半部分因为结构创造出的神秘感在最后没有payoff的感觉
评分在跳跃的时间线里,这是一个末日故事、移民者经历、和对现代消费主义和办公室文化的嘲讽。末日来临人类也似乎摆脱不掉的官僚主义;Ma 并不刻意或夸张地描述随处可见的物质生活和消费行为几乎定义了城市、和城市生活;重新审视朝九晚五的办公生活;而更多的移民者如何迁移、到达、挣扎在这些面目相似的城市里。Ma的文风带着一种冷幽默,把这三个看似并不相关的主题完美地融合在一起。读起来有点类似Station Eleven 的节奏, 但我个人觉得这个慢悠悠,絮絮叨叨的末日故事要恐怖多了。也许不仅是她描绘的末日场景,更多的是作者在这本书里似乎有着这样的suggestion: 患病的这些“僵尸”,和都市里生活的麻木、重复的人们,区别也没有那么大。
Born in Sanming, China, Ling grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught. Currently, she serve as an assistant professor at her alma mater, University of Chicago.
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.
So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?
A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
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