2666

<h3><a href='https://book.douban.com/subject/6800379/'> Douban</a></h3><p>National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Novel</p><p>New York Times Best 10 Books of the Year</p><p>Time Magazine Best Novel</p><p>Los Angeles Times Best Novel</p><p>San Francisco Chronicle 50 Best Novels of the Year</p><p>Seattle Times Best Books of the Year</p><p>New York Magazine 10 Best Novels of the Year</p><p>Amazon Editors' Choice Top 10 Readers' Choice Books of the Year</p><p>100 Best Spanish-Language Novels of the Past 25 Years</p><p>Best Novels of the New Millennium</p><p>2666's five parts tell five independent yet interconnected stories. The first part, "The Literary Critics," tells the story of four literary critics from different parts of Europe (England, France, Spain, and Italy) who become friends and then lovers through their shared love and research for the German writer, Acinboldi. Upon learning that Acinboldi had appeared in Mexico, the group traveled there together. The tone of this section is calm, even lighthearted and comedic. But towards the end, the atmosphere takes on a strange, dreamlike quality. The second section, "Amalfitano," tells the story of a Chilean professor whose family relocates to Mexico. In the first section, he served as a guide to several critics, claiming to have met Acinboldi. In this section, the critics have vanished, leaving behind the increasingly hallucinatory professor. Not only does he hear the dead speak to him, but one day, he imitates Duchamp by hanging a geometry book he stumbled upon on his clothesline, watching the wind rustle its pages. This section also explores the professor's wife, who becomes obsessed with a mad poet and abandons their daughter. The mood here is relatively surreal and psychedelic. The atmosphere is oppressive and eerie, even featuring some puzzling illustrations. The third section, "Fat," tells the story of a black journalist working for New York's Black Dawn magazine. After his fellow boxing reporter is murdered, he travels to Mexico to cover a boxing match. Here, he meets colleagues from various media outlets and even encounters Amalfitano's daughter. He gradually learns of a series of brutal murders of women in the northern Mexican city of Santa Teresa, with bodies dumped in the wilderness. He faces numerous obstacles in his attempt to report on the incident. This section is written with remarkable realism, its narrative concise and powerful. A unique feature (and one that resonates throughout 2666) is the numerous digressions interspersed between the linear narrative. These include a passenger's story of survival at sea, a lengthy monologue he hears in a church while searching for someone, and gossip about an American director. Duchamp, the book-drying figure mentioned earlier, also receives a special mention. The section concludes with Fat, with the help of someone, interviewing a serial killer suspect in prison. Upon meeting the suspect, he finds himself at a loss for words. Part Four, "Crimes," is arguably the book's climax. This section resembles a police file, chronicling one or more femicide cases per month, even per week, from January 1993 to December 1997. It's concise and detailed, detailing the time and place of discovery, the circumstances of death, clothing, surroundings, whether the deceased has been identified, the cause of death determined by forensic examination, any suspects, and the police response. Of course, this section also incorporates police drama, the background of drug cartels, political interference, FBI detectives, a "confessor" who desecrates a church, a witch who can predict the future, and a suspect who commands power in prison (this suspect is connected to the giant suspect at the end of Part Three). This "police report" evokes shock and anger, followed by disappointment and resignation, until finally, resignation to the harsh reality of reality. Reading this section is a profoundly visceral experience for the reader. The fifth section, "Acinboldi," returns to the suspenseful character introduced at the beginning. This section, which could even be read as a standalone historical novel, recounts Acinboldi's life: his birth, upbringing, life as a servant in an aristocratic family, his military service, World War II, separation from his family, witnessing torture, becoming a prisoner of war, hearing firsthand about the Holocaust, his beginnings as a writer, the recognition and even funding he receives from the president of a Hamburg publishing house, rumors that he is a potential Nobel Prize winner, his anonymous travels throughout Europe, his reunion with his family, and his decision to travel to Santa Teresa, a small town in northern Mexico shrouded in death. The mood of this section resonates with the lingering feeling of a mournful song. While some of the details are just as powerful as those in the fourth section, this section, however, is even more profound, conveying a tone of unspoken fear, sorrow, and helplessness.

2012-01-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

869

9787208102019