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To paradise

To paradise

$630

ISBN:9780593315651
作者:Hanya Yanagihara
出版社:Anchor
出版日期:2023/03/21
尺寸:200x130x35mm

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To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot.

In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances.

These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

 

《前往樂園》是一本充滿文學魅力的世紀末小說,但最重要的是,它是一部情感上的傑出之作。這本卓越小說的強大力量源於作者柳內加拉(Yanagihara)了解保護我們所愛的人——伴侶、愛人、孩子、朋友、家人,甚至是我們的同胞——的切身渴望的強烈願望,以及當我們無法實現這種渴望時所帶來的痛苦。
 
在一個1893年美國的另一個版本中,紐約是自由州的一部分,在那裡人們可以隨心所欲地生活和愛人(或者看起來是這樣)。一個出身名門望族的脆弱的年輕後裔拒絕與一位有價值的追求者訂婚,卻被一位迷人但貧窮的音樂教師所吸引。在1993年,曼哈頓深受艾滋病流行的困擾,一位年輕的夏威夷人與他年長得多、更富有的伴侶生活在一起,隱瞞了自己坎坷的童年和父親的命運。而在2093年,在一個被瘟疫蹂躪並由極權統治的世界中,一位強大科學家的受傷孫女試圖在沒有他的情況下度過生活——並解開她丈夫消失的謎團。
 
這三個部分組成了一個巧妙的交響樂,不斷重複的音符和主題相互加深和豐富:格林威治村華盛頓廣場公園的聯排別墅、疾病和代價高昂的治療;財富和污穢;弱者和強者;種族;家庭和國家的定義;強大者和革命者的危險正義感;渴望在人間樂園找到一席之地,以及漸漸意識到它無法存在。不僅是角色,這些美國人的共同之處是他們對人類品質的思考:恐懼、愛、羞恥、需求、孤獨。

(文字整理/羅美文)

To paradise

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