James
世界失速，我们活着，该如何不跟着疯狂？
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内容简介 · · · · · ·
It takes a lot of ambition, skill and vision to reinvent one of the most iconic books in American letters, but Everett demonstrates he possesses those virtues in droves in “James.” The novel is a radical reworking of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” telling the story not from Huck’s perspective, but from the point of view of the enslaved man who accompanies Huck down the Mississippi River: Jim (or, as he clarifies, James). From James’s eyes, we see he is no mere sidekick but rather a thinker and a writer who is code-switching as illiterate and fighting desperately for freedom. Everett’s novel is a literary hat trick — a book that highlights the horrors in American history and complicates an American classic, all while also emerging as a work of exquisite originality in its own right.
要重塑美国文学史上最具代表性的著作之一，需要很大的雄心、技巧和远见，但埃弗雷特在《詹姆斯》一书中证明了他拥有这些品质。本书是对马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》的彻底再创作，不是从哈克的角度讲故事，而是从陪伴哈克沿密西西比河漂流的那个奴隶的角度讲述故事：这个人就是吉姆（或者，按照他本人的澄清，是詹姆斯）。从詹姆斯的眼中，我们看到他不仅仅是一个跟班，他是一个要在人前装作大字不识的思想者和写作者，在为自由奋力抗争。埃弗雷特的小说堪称一箭三雕——它凸显了美国历史中的恐怖，把一部美国经典著作变得更复杂丰富，同时它本身也是一部极具原创性的精彩作品。
作者简介 · · · · · ·
PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.
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