Palace of the Peacock 孔雀宫（加勒比文学的里程碑作品）

基本信息

Format: Paperback | 160 pages

Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 9mm | 141g

Publication date: 08 Feb 2022

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Imprint: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571368044

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

我梦见我醒来的时候，一只眼睛死了，一只眼睛还闭着。

一群人正沿着一条湍急的河流，穿过圭亚那的雨林，开始了一次航行。他们专横的上司多恩是一个征服者的本质，痴迷于猎取一个神秘的女人，并剥削原住民作为种植园的劳动力。但他们的探险队被悲剧所困扰，被淹死的鬼魂所困扰：船员们自己的幽灵，居住在生与死之间的模糊阴影地带。随着他们进入内陆的旅程--他们自己的黑暗之心--的加深，它呈现出一种精神层面，引导他们走向一个新的目的地：孔雀宫......

一个现代主义的狂热的梦想；散文诗；现代神话；对殖民主义征服受害者的挽歌。威尔逊·哈里斯的杰作60多年来一直没有被定义，现在为新一代的读者重新发行了。

I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...

A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador, obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of darkness - deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock ...

A modernist fever dream; prose poem; modern myth; elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris' masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years, and is reissued for a new generation of readers.

作者简介

威尔逊·哈里斯爵士是一位获奖的小说家、诗人、散文家和演讲者。1921年出生于英属圭亚那，他的父亲在他两岁时去世，他的继父在1929年消失在雨林里。他于1942年开始担任政府调查员，带领探险队进入亚马逊内陆地区近15年。1959年，他去了英国，成为一名全职作家。次年，法布尔出版了他的处女作《孔雀宫殿》，这本书成为加勒比文学的一个里程碑，也是《圭亚那四部曲》的第1部。在他的职业生涯中，法布尔出版了哈里斯的全部26部小说，包括《狂欢节三部曲》、《琼斯镇》、《乞丐的面具》和《记忆的幽灵》。哈里斯获得了许多学术奖学金和荣誉博士学位，同时也是古根海姆研究员。他曾两次获得圭亚那文学奖，并获得了圭亚那文学奖的终身成就奖。

Sir Wilson Harris was a prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and lecturer. Born in 1921 in British Guiana, his father died when he was two and his stepfather disappeared into the rainforests in 1929. He began working as a government surveyor in 1942 and led expeditions into the Amazonian interior for almost 15 years. In 1959 he left for England to become a full-time writer. The following year, Faber published his debut novel, Palace of the Peacock, which became a landmark of Caribbean literature and the first of The Guyana Quartet. Over the course of his career, Faber published all 26 of Harris' novels, including The Carnival Trilogy, Jonestown, The Mask of the Beggar, and The Ghost of Memory. Harris was awarded numerous academic fellowships and honorary doctorates as well as being a Guggenheim Fellow. He twice won the Guyana Prize for Literature as well as a Lifetime Achievement Prize f...show more