巴尔提斯•阿蒂拉是匈牙利最为活跃的年轻作家之一。《宁静海》是其小说处女作，甫一出版即在欧洲获得极大反响。

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余泽民，翻译家，作家。1989年毕业于北京医科大学临床医学系，后在中国音乐学院音乐学系攻读艺术心理学硕士。1991年赴匈牙利，现定居布达佩斯 。中国作家协会会员，北京作家协会会员。翻译凯尔泰斯•伊姆莱的《英国旗》《命运无常》《另一个人》《船夫日记》，艾斯特哈兹•彼得的《赫拉巴尔之书》《一个女人》，德拉古曼•久尔吉的《摘郁金香的男孩》等。著有长篇小说《狭窄的天光》、中篇小说集《匈牙利舞曲》、文化散文《咖啡馆里看欧洲》、《欧洲醉行》、《欧洲的另一种色彩》等。

" Tranquility is a moving, emotionally complex, subtle, shocking novel …" Los Angeles Times Tranquility , the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and a portrait of the end of the Communist era. Reading it, we arrive at ourselves, at our own obsessions, in our own silence,” writes Ilma Rakusa. A thirty-six-year-old writer struggles to escape his hellish, Oedipal inter dependency with his actress mother as Hungary’s Communist infrastructure collapses around him. One of the most psychologically dark and ironic novels to have emerged from contemporary Hungarian literature, it is also, as far as human psychology and political farce are concerned, one of the most illuminating. Attila Bartis has been hailed by Hungarian readers as a maverick, unorthodox, and highly inventive postmodern writer. Tranquility is his first novel to appear in English. Imre Goldstein has translated dozens of books and plays from the Hungarian. He is currently translating a three-volume novel by Péter Nádas.