Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean
保罗・拉・法基《夜之海》
The bizarre and the scandalous float through this novel, an alternate history that speculates about the connection between seminal American horror writer HP Lovecraft and a gay fan named Robert Barlow. The two lived together for several months in 1934, when Lovecraft was 43 and Barlow was 16. They collaborated on a story called The Night Ocean before Lovecraft died in 1937. La Farge constructs a story within a story filled with artifice – a faux document (the Erotonimicon, a supposed Lovecraft diary), false identities and faked suicides. Psychiatrist Marina Willett watches as her husband Charlie becomes obsessed with Lovecraft and believes he has found Barlow alive and living in Canada. Then Charlie disappears. This many-layered literary mystery is chockablock with surprise appearances – William Burroughs, Ursula Le Guin, Diego Rivera, Roy Cohn, to name a few.
这本小说由怪异事件和丑闻贯穿始终。其实,这个故事是对知名的美国恐怖小说作家HP・洛夫克莱夫特和一个同性恋粉丝罗伯特・巴罗之间隐秘关系猜测的另类改编。1934年,43岁的洛夫克莱夫和16岁的巴罗一起住了几个月。他们在1937年,洛夫克莱夫特去世之前,合作完成了一个名为《夜之海》的故事。拉・法基很巧妙地在一个故事里构建了另一个故事——一份假档案(据称是洛夫克莱夫的日记)、假身份以及假自杀案。玛丽娜・威力特眼看着丈夫查理痴迷于洛夫克莱夫,他认为他已经找到了生活在加拿大的巴罗。然后,查理就失踪了。这部故事层次丰富的神秘作品里面还有不少名作家意外现身,其中包括:威廉・伯罗斯、厄休拉•勒奎恩、迭戈•里维拉以及罗依•康等。
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