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89 Words Followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem

內容簡介

內容簡介 本書是米蘭·昆德拉(Milan Kundera)的兩篇重要隨筆首度英譯出版，探討了流亡、語言和國家認同，以及他所稱的「小國家」的獨特文化。其中，《89 Words》(八十九個詞)由《The Art of the Novel》(小說的藝術)中第六章〈六十七個詞〉擴充延伸而成，展現了昆德拉獨特的哲學思辨，探討身為作品被翻譯成其他語言的作家意味著什麼，以及在另一種語言環境中生活所帶來的背叛和流亡。而《布拉格，一首正在消失的詩》則以對故土深切的絕望感寫成，探討了捷克這個「小國家」獨特的文化遺產，並批判了蘇聯對其文化的壓制以及西歐的漠不關心。這兩篇富有洞察力、優雅且充滿智慧的隨筆，讓熟悉昆德拉的讀者再次感受到他那無可比擬的聲音；對於新讀者而言，它們則是進入昆德拉作品世界的絕佳入口，得以一窺他那以毀滅性諷刺和批判的微妙性著稱的虛構宇宙。An invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity from one of Europe's most celebrated literary stars, the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation of what exile, life in another language, and the betrayals of translations entail.Prague, A Disappearing Poem, dating from 1980, meditates on questions of the culture of the 'small nation' that formed and lends specificity to Kundera's work, and - as in A Kidnapped West - questions of the Soviet and Western attitudes to Czech culture.Together, these provocative, elegant and wise essays remind familiar readers of Kundera's presence - his inimitable voice - and for new readers, offer an introduction to his oeuvre: an access point into his fictional universe, characterised by devastating irony and subtlety of judgement.

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各界推薦 Like all great writers, Kundera leaves indelible marks on his readers' imaginations... An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere. ― Salman RushdieKundera is the saddest, funniest and most loveable of authors. ― The TimesA global literary superstar. ― New York Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 Milan KunderaThe Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera (1929–2023) was born in Brno and lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975 until his death. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere, Farewell Waltz, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short story collection Laughable Loves—all originally in Czech. His more recent novels, Slowness, Identity, Ignorance, and The Festival of Insignificance, as well as his nonfiction works, The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.

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最佳賣點 : 米蘭昆德拉兩篇富有洞察力、優雅且充滿智慧的重要隨筆首次英譯出版：《89 Words》、《Prague, A Disappearing Poem》

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