骗局

The Fraud, by Zadie Smith

Based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial in which the defendant was accused of impersonating a nobleman, Smith’s novel offers a vast, acute panoply of London and the English countryside, and successfully locates the social controversies of an era in a handful of characters. Chief among them are a widowed Scottish housekeeper who avidly follows the trial and a formerly enslaved Jamaican servant who testifies on behalf of the claimant. Smith is a talented critic as well as a novelist, and — by way of the housekeeper’s employer, a once popular writer and friendly rival of Dickens — she finds ample opportunity to send up the literary culture of the time while reflecting on whose stories are told and whose are overlooked. “As always, it is a pleasure to be in Zadie Smith’s mind, which, as time goes on, is becoming contiguous with London itself,” Karan Mahajan wrote in his review. “Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive.”

《骗局》(The Fraud)，扎迪·史密斯著

史密斯的小说取材于19世纪一场著名的刑事审判，被告被指控冒充贵族。小说展现了伦敦和英国乡村广阔而生动的全景，并成功地将那个时代的社会争议定位在少数几个人物身上。其中最主要的是一名守寡的苏格兰管家，她热切地关注着审判，还有一名曾经被奴役的牙买加仆人，他代表原告作证。史密斯是一位才华横溢的评论家，也是一位小说家。她通过女管家的雇主——一位曾经很受欢迎的作家和狄更斯的友好对手——找到了大量的机会，来抨击当时的文学文化，同时反思了谁的故事被讲述，谁的故事被忽视。“一如既往，置身于扎迪·史密斯的脑海里是一种快乐，随着时间的推移，她的想法与伦敦本身越来越接近，”卡兰·马哈詹在书评中写道。“狄更斯或许死了，但谢天谢地，史密斯还活着。”

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