《The Magic Mountain》出版一个世纪后，奥尔加·托卡尔丘克以其独特的大胆、创造、幽默和勇敢，重访了托马斯·曼的领域并宣称拥有该领域。
The Nobelist’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of G?rbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.
A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura.
Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into more than fifty languages.
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The words of Dr. Sokolowski came back to him too, from the days when he had first treated Wojnicz and started to tackle his apathy—that life should be made appetizing. Yes, appetizing, that was a better word than gemitlich, thought Wojnicz, for it could refer not only to space, but to everything else as well—to someone's voice, to a way of speaking, of sitting in an armchair, or tying a scarf around one's neck, to the way cakes were arranged on a plate. (查看原文)
There was a soft knock at the door,and before he had time to say "Come in," a leather boot had wedged its way into the gap between the frame and the door, gently opening it; next the black pleats of a skirt appeared, the lacy edge of an apron, and a breakfast tray, which was soon standing on the little table. The boots, lace and apron vanished as quickly as they had appeared, and the bewildered Wojnicz merely managed to pull his rug over himself, stammer a greeting and say thank you. He was so hungry that he was interested only in the food. (查看原文)
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来自基辅的工程系学生，传统守旧的天主教徒，高歌口号的改革派，被神秘人士资助的风景画家，他们因为病情聚集在同一所疗养院的会客厅，在雪茄的烟雾缭绕和用某种奇妙菌菇酿造的烈酒中高谈阔论着社会议题。而这样一群男人，似乎只有在一个话题上能达成共识，那就是关于“女人”。 在这样的设定和编排下，我一开始的阅读视角不免疏离，和书中在幽暗处窥视的旁观者很类似，以至于我完全没想到在周二的一天早高峰人挤人的Jubi... 来自基辅的工程系学生，传统守旧的天主教徒，高歌口号的改革派，被神秘人士资助的风景画家，他们因为病情聚集在同一所疗养院的会客厅，在雪茄的烟雾缭绕和用某种奇妙菌菇酿造的烈酒中高谈阔论着社会议题。而这样一群男人，似乎只有在一个话题上能达成共识，那就是关于“女人”。 在这样的设定和编排下，我一开始的阅读视角不免疏离，和书中在幽暗处窥视的旁观者很类似，以至于我完全没想到在周二的一天早高峰人挤人的Jubilee Line里会被其中一个情节感动到流泪。 (展开)