Short Letter, Long Farewell

产品信息

作者: Peter Handke

译者: Ralph Manheim

平装: 192 pages

出版社: New York Review of Books

出版日期: 31 Mar. 2009

语种: English

ISBN-10: 1590173066

ISBN-13: 978-1590173060

尺寸: 12.6 x 1 x 20.3 cm

重量: 227 g

编辑推荐

2019诺贝尔文学奖获得者——彼得汉德克

了解和认识这位独具风格和人格魅力的奥地利作家

“新主体性”文学的代表作

《短信长别》是一部充满自传色彩的小说。可以说，这部小说是作者这个时期自我反思的一面镜子，他把细腻的自我观察和感受转化成了一种虚构的文学形式，并且寻求以这种方式来改变自己：“我在这本书里试图描述的是一种希望……一种你有可能如此逐渐发展变化的希望。”（汉德克）。

内容简介

Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. 

Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America—from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and from Portland, Oregon, to L.A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything’s spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue, suspense story, domestic comedy, and Western showdown, with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all, 

Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life—or the corpse of an old one—lying just around the corner.

作者介绍

彼得·汉德克（Peter Handke，1942— ），奥地利先锋剧作家，小说家。他创作的《卡斯帕》，在现代戏剧史上的地位堪与贝克特的《等待戈多》相提并论，被誉为创造“说话剧”与反语言规训的大师。他的小说《守门员面对罚点球时的焦虑》《重现》《无欲的悲歌》等渗透了作家本人的生活经历和思想观念，他用简单的笔调状出具有丰富内蕴的作品。

汉德克是20世纪德语文学重要的几位作家之一，被称为“活着的经典”，他于1973年获毕希纳文学奖，2009年获弗朗茨·卡夫卡奖。在文学创作之外，汉德克参与编剧的《柏林苍穹下》成为电影史经典，他本人根据自己作品改编的电影《左撇子女人》曾获戛纳电影节*佳影片提名。