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Nights at the Circus

作者:Carter, Angela

出版社:Vintage UK

出版日期:2024.06.18

ISBN:9780099388616

書號:20312701

裝訂:平裝

定價:$450

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一向擅長魔幻寫實技法的英國作家安潔拉.卡特,這次以巡迴馬戲團為舞台,將時空安排在新舊世紀交接之處,帶領讀者傾聽號稱「整部世界史上唯一一個羽豐翼全的處女」的空中女飛人——飛飛——細數她如何飛上馬戲團之頂的怪誕經歷!

 

因為一雙天使般斑斕翅膀而贏得「倫敦維納斯」稱號的飛飛擄獲了所有觀眾的心,更撩起了許多男人的慾望,但記者華爾斯起了疑竇:「她是真的存在,還是虛構出來的?」為了釐清真相,也為了日漸增長的愛欲,他跟隨飛飛的腳步一同參與巡迴馬戲團的演出。他能揭發這個空中騙子的真相嗎?

 

曾以《魔幻玩具鋪》一書獲得約翰.勒維林.里斯獎的安潔拉.卡特,在《馬戲團之夜》裡靈巧地戲弄「敘述」的本質,將故事與故事層層堆疊交錯,呈現如萬花筒般炫惑迷人的架構,再加上歌德式的華麗敘事讓情慾膨脹的臨界隱藏在馬戲團帳棚的背後,真實且醜陋的世界讓人不得不信以為真,偶爾出現的零星意外卻又讓人懷疑,眼前看到的文字是真實抑或是謊言?整部小說看似記實,又似謊言虛構,是卡特發揮「說故事女巫」的本事,在讀者眼前上演前所未見的文字馬戲。

 

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction

 

From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan

 

Sophi Fevvers—the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec—is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake? Dazzled by his love for Fevvers, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser joins the circus on its tour. The journey takes him—and the reader—on an intoxicating trip through turn-of-the-century London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia—a tour so magical that only Angela Carter could have created it.

作者介紹

安潔拉.卡特(Angela Carter,1940-1992)

 

出生於英國伊斯特本(Eastbourne),是英國最具獨創性的作家之一,書寫風格混雜魔幻寫實、歌德式、女性主義。卡特著有八部小說:《魔幻玩具鋪》(獲約翰.勒維林.里斯獎)、《數種知覺》(獲桑姆塞.毛姆獎)、《英雄與惡徒》、《愛》、《霍夫曼博士的地獄欲望機器》、《新夏娃的激情》、《馬戲團之夜》、以及《明智的孩子》。三本短篇小說集:《染血的房間》、《煙火:九個世俗故事》、以及《聖人與陌生人》等等。卡特的作品也深受媒體喜愛:短篇小說〈與郎為伴〉和《魔幻玩具鋪》曾拍成電影,《馬戲團之夜》和《明智的孩子》改編成舞台劇於倫敦上演,2006年更被喻為是安潔拉.卡特年,在英倫掀起一陣卡特熱潮。

 
Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.