Mathias Enard, Compass
马蒂亚斯•埃纳尔《罗盘》
Compass chronicles one long night of memory, opium, illness and insomnia spent by Franz Ritter, a musicologist with an interest in Iranian music. Franz is entranced with the intersection of East and West, and with Sarah, a copper-haired academic with a fiery intellect. Now Sarah has written him from Sarawak, bringing up recollections, including their intimate overnight in Palmyra, academic conferences in Tehran, a voyage to Beirut with Nadim, the Iranian musician she marries. Haunted by unrequited love, Franz meditates on his treasured compass, once owned by Beethoven, which always points east. Compass, which won France’s Priz Goncourt, is poetic, ironic, irresistible.
《罗盘》记述的是对伊朗音乐颇有兴趣的音乐学者弗朗兹•瑞德在回忆、鸦片、疾病和失眠中度过的一个漫漫长夜。弗朗兹痴迷于东西方的交融,他还对一位棕色头发、学术观点犀利的女孩莎拉着了迷。他收到了莎拉从沙捞越给他写来的信,引发了诸多回忆:他们在巴尔米拉共度的良宵,在德黑兰参加的学术会议,和莎拉的丈夫、伊朗音乐家纳迪姆一起乘船去贝鲁特。因为被这段单相思困扰,弗朗兹拿着他的宝贝罗盘陷入沉思。这个罗盘总是指向东方,贝多芬曾经是这个罗盘的主人。《罗盘》曾获得法国龚古尔奖,是一本富有诗意、充满讽刺,让人难以抵抗的作品。
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