Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. ...
Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. The brute fact of Ah Yao's death focuses Shao's simultaneously erudite and erotic reflections magnetically on the core theme of mortality. By turns humorous and despondent, the narrator struggles to come to terms with Ah Yao's risky lifestyle, radical political activism, and eventual death; the fragility of romantic love; the awesome power of eros; the solace of writing; the cold ennui of a younger generation enthralled only by video games; and life on the edge of mainstream Taiwanese society. His feverish journey through forests of metaphor and allusion -- from Fellini and Levi-Strauss to classical Chinese poetry -- serves as a litany protecting him from the ravages of time and finitude. Impressive in scope and detail, Notes of a Desolate Man employs the motif of its characters' marginalized sexuality to highlight Taiwan's vivid and fragile existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin's masterful translation brings Chu T'ien-wen's lyrical and inventive pastiche of political, poetic, and sexual desire to the English-speaking world.
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0 有用 Luckycider 2023-11-29 18:28:56 美国
六十年代文学和胡兰成影子下的“三三”狷气，化为英文里吐字清晰的荒人manifesto。如今全球的晚期资本主义人类中心主义，早在朱的九十年：TW提前沉痛忏悔。后来者也有后见之明，空间“边界交错游移碰撞”情色乌托邦，身份ZZ走入末路“无众以名之者，酷儿概之” ，通过钙身份的障眼法，生发出多重爱欲向度的象征交换物，即写作令自戕自渎的荒人“我”绵绵不断抵抗遗忘，留给未来的墓志铭：“救赎，是最大的诿过。”如... 六十年代文学和胡兰成影子下的“三三”狷气，化为英文里吐字清晰的荒人manifesto。如今全球的晚期资本主义人类中心主义，早在朱的九十年：TW提前沉痛忏悔。后来者也有后见之明，空间“边界交错游移碰撞”情色乌托邦，身份ZZ走入末路“无众以名之者，酷儿概之” ，通过钙身份的障眼法，生发出多重爱欲向度的象征交换物，即写作令自戕自渎的荒人“我”绵绵不断抵抗遗忘，留给未来的墓志铭：“救赎，是最大的诿过。”如此荒人形象，只三十年后《流俗地》的盲女可堪对照。 (展开)
1 有用 Xuan 2014-08-04 11:33:57
先读的Howard Goldblatt翻译的英文版。极其美。有空了一定重读中文原版。
0 有用 小蝦 2017-05-11 19:54:27
翻譯總是不討好的 翻譯算文學嗎？突然疑問起來
0 有用 Luckycider 2023-11-29 18:28:56 美国
六十年代文学和胡兰成影子下的“三三”狷气，化为英文里吐字清晰的荒人manifesto。如今全球的晚期资本主义人类中心主义，早在朱的九十年：TW提前沉痛忏悔。后来者也有后见之明，空间“边界交错游移碰撞”情色乌托邦，身份ZZ走入末路“无众以名之者，酷儿概之” ，通过钙身份的障眼法，生发出多重爱欲向度的象征交换物，即写作令自戕自渎的荒人“我”绵绵不断抵抗遗忘，留给未来的墓志铭：“救赎，是最大的诿过。”如... 六十年代文学和胡兰成影子下的“三三”狷气，化为英文里吐字清晰的荒人manifesto。如今全球的晚期资本主义人类中心主义，早在朱的九十年：TW提前沉痛忏悔。后来者也有后见之明，空间“边界交错游移碰撞”情色乌托邦，身份ZZ走入末路“无众以名之者，酷儿概之” ，通过钙身份的障眼法，生发出多重爱欲向度的象征交换物，即写作令自戕自渎的荒人“我”绵绵不断抵抗遗忘，留给未来的墓志铭：“救赎，是最大的诿过。”如此荒人形象，只三十年后《流俗地》的盲女可堪对照。 (展开)
0 有用 小蝦 2017-05-11 19:54:27
翻譯總是不討好的 翻譯算文學嗎？突然疑問起來
1 有用 Xuan 2014-08-04 11:33:57
先读的Howard Goldblatt翻译的英文版。极其美。有空了一定重读中文原版。