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The Moravian Night, by Peter Handke
2019年諾貝爾文學獎得主彼得 ‧ 漢德克作品
【水上歐洲十日談，在想像異域與現實國境間遊走】
揉合歷史與想像，當來自不同地方的人共乘一艘船屋，在多瑙河的支流莫拉瓦河上航行，由年邁的老作家為首，對同行的六七個乘客述說自己曾經在歐洲游盪的故事。老者的起點從科索沃出發，而這些故事有時是完全想像，卻又與現實世界產生連結，作者對每個地方的景色與風情描述得鉅細靡遺，卻又有時刻意放錯地名，作者故意不描述敘述者的身分，讓讀者自行在前後文裡尋找。
在這些故事中，有些像是夢語、幻想，有些又充滿哲學性與解構性，而漢德克巧妙地在故事間遊走，那位說故事的老者如同作者的影分身，將歐洲歷史與各國的複雜情結娓娓道來。
Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of an old writer listen as he tells a story that will last until dawn: the tale of the once well-known writer's recent odyssey across Europe. As his story unfolds, it visits places that represent stages of the narrator's and the continent's past, many now lost or irrecoverably changed through war, death, and the subtler erosions of time. His wanderings take him from the Balkans to Spain, Germany, and Austria, from a congress of experts on noise sickness to a clandestine international gathering of jew's-harp virtuosos. His story and its telling are haunted by a beautiful stranger, a woman who has a preternatural hold over the writer and appears sometimes as a demon, sometimes as the longed-for destination of his travels.
ISBN: 9780374537173
