从瑞士日内瓦湖岸到意大利里雅斯特亚得里亚海港,奥谢描述了一场迷人的阿尔卑斯山夏季旅行。他记录了充满惊险的盘山公路,壮丽的山峰以及各色的同行者,还发现了《007》电影在阿尔卑斯山的多个取景地。他还巧妙地描绘了所经过的历史遗迹——1816年玛丽•雪莱在瑞士湖边的别墅构思出《科学怪人》、莫扎特的出生地、纳粹藏了无数天价艺术品的奥地利盐矿等等。这部作品文字优美、信息丰富,让人们想起几个世纪以来作家和诗人对阿尔卑斯山不同的态度变化激发了他们的创作。
Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
克里斯蒂娜•贝克•克兰《世界一隅》
Kline's new novel is inspired by Christina Olson, the woman in Andrew Wyeth's best-known painting, Christina's World. Christina, who lives in the house built by her ancestors in Cushing in the US state of Maine, has been left off-kilter from a childhood illness. Her bones and joints deteriorate over the years, and her dreams of escape end when a four-year relationship with a Harvard student ends. One day Wyeth, who spends his summers nearby, asks to use their house as a studio to paint. He and Christina have an instant bond, and she, her brother Al and the house become constant themes in his work over the decades. "Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home," Baker writes in this beautifully rendered portrait of a woman's interior life.
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