阿梅丽·诺冬：管子的玄思 The Character of Rain

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 144 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571220496

Published:4 Nov 2004

Weight:134g

Dimensions:196 x 128 x 10 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

日本人相信，在三岁之前，儿童，无论是否是日本人，都是神，每个人都是okosama。在他们三岁生日的时候，他们就会从神的位置上掉下来，加入到人类的行列中。在Amelie Nothomb的新小说《管子的玄思》中，我们了解到神性是一种很难恢复的东西，特别是如果像这个故事中的孩子一样，你在生命的头两年半里几乎处于植物状态。

"我记得两岁半以后发生在我身上的一切"叙述者告诉我们。她说的是字面上的意思。一旦她从植物般的、管状的恍惚状态中清醒过来（让关心她的父母欣喜若狂），这个孩子就会迸发出来，吸收她父亲作为外交官工作的日本所能提供的一切。生活是一场不断展开的喜悦和危险的盛会，是对快乐和权力极限的不断探索。奇妙的是对水的发现：海洋、大海、水池、水坑、小溪、池塘，也许重要的是雨，这是她名字中日本字的含义。她的生活是两栖的。

《管子的玄思》唤起了童年的欢笑、恐怖和神圣感。正如她在获奖的国际畅销书《恐惧与颤抖》中所做的那样，Nothomb将这部小说建立在她在日本的经历的基础上，但从这些页面中出现的自画像却具有令人不安的普遍性。Amelie Nothomb的小说是令人难忘的沉浸式体验，让你既钦佩地屏住呼吸，肺部疼痛，又渴望得到更多。

The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state.

"I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half," the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the ecstatic relief of her concerned parents), the child bursts into existence, absorbing everything that Japan, where her father works as a diplomat, has to offer. Life is an unfolding pageant of delight and danger, a ceaseless exploration of pleasure and the limits of power. Most wondrous of all is the discovery of water: oceans, seas, pools, puddles, streams, ponds, and, perhaps most of all, rain-one meaning of the Japanese character for her name. Hers is an amphibious life.

The Character of Rain evokes the hilarity, terror, and sanctity of childhood. As she did in the award-winning, international bestesller Fear and Trembling, Nothomb grounds the novel in the outlines of her experiences in Japan, but the self-portrait that emerges from these pages is hauntingly universal. Amelie Nothomb's novels are unforgettable immersion experiences, leaving you both holding your breath with admiration, your lungs aching, and longing for more.

作者简介

埃米莉-诺托姆（Amélie Nothomb）是比利时人，出生于日本神户，目前居住在巴黎。她是八部小说的作者，被翻译成14种语言，包括近来的《恐惧与颤抖》，它赢得了法兰西学院的大奖和互联网文学奖。

Belgian by nationality, Amélie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan, and currently lives in Paris. She is the author of eight novels, translated into fourteen languages, including most recently Fear and Trembling which won the Grand Prix of the Académie Française and the Prix Internet du Livre.