书名：The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
定价：185.0
ISBN：9780811214933
作者：Dubravka Ugresic
版次：2
出版时间：2002-02

内容提要：

无条件投降博物馆 杜布拉夫卡·乌格雷西奇 Dubravka 英文原版 The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

基本信息

• Publisher ? : ? New Directions (February 1, 2002)
• Language ? : ? English
• Paperback ? : ? 256 pages
• ISBN-10 ? : ? 0811214931
• ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0811214933
• Item Weight ? : ? 9.8 ounces
• Dimensions ? : ? 5.3 x 0.7 x 8.1 inches

内容介绍

克罗地亚著名流亡作家的实验文学小说，广受好评。

南斯拉夫著名作家杜布拉夫卡-乌格雷西奇（Dubravka Ugresic）的作品《无条件投降博物馆》以柏林动物园为开端，

海象罗兰（Roland the Walrus）肚子里的东西陈列在他的游泳池旁边（罗兰死于 1961 年 8 月）。

这些物品--打火机、棒棒糖棒、啤酒瓶开瓶器等--就像小说本身的虚构片段一样，起初看似随意，但最终凝聚在一起，充满意义和诗意。

《无条件投降博物馆》以多种文学形式书写了流亡生活的破碎世界。

其中一些章节再现了叙述者孤独而疏离的母亲的日常日记，她在镇上临时搭建的跳蚤市场购物，并思念自己的孩子；

另一个章节则以梦境的形式叙述了一个天使拜访一群女性朋友的故事。书中有对大屠杀和南斯拉夫内战的反思和描述；

有欧洲艺术家的肖像；有卡拉威汤的食谱；有叙述者在里斯本浪漫邂逅的动人故事；有对家庭照片的描述；有对乌格雷西奇成长的小镇的回忆。

《博物馆》探讨了艺术与历史、衰老与失落等主题，是一部令人魂牵梦萦、极具独创性的小说。

用《泰晤士报文学副刊》的话说，“它对破坏性力量的谴责和对利害关系的唤起都很生动”。

Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender―by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic―begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects―a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc.―like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random at first, but eventually coalesce, meaningfully and poetically.

Written in a variety of literary forms, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender captures the shattered world of a life in exile. Some chapters re-create the daily journal of the narrator's lonely and alienated mother, who shops at the improvised flea-markets in town and longs for her children; another is a dream-like narrative in which a circle of women friends are visited by an angel. There are reflections and accounts of the Holocaust and the Yugoslav Civil War; portraits of European artists; a recipe for Caraway Soup; a moving story of a romantic encounter the narrator has in Lisbon; descriptions of family photographs; memories of the small town in which Ugresic was raised.

Addressing the themes of art and history, aging and loss, The Museum is a haunting and an extremely original novel. In the words of the Times Literary Supplement, "it is vivid in its denunciation of destructive forces and in its evocation of what is at stake."