12. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)
杰弗里·尤金尼德斯,《中性》(2002年)
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974," Eugenides writes in the opening lines of his novel. At 14, Calliope Stephanides discovers she has a rare recessive mutation that renders her a pseudo-hermaphrodite. Claiming her "male brain", she shifts genders and becomes Cal. In often exuberant language, Eugenides layers questions of fate and free will onto Cal's coming-of-age story and the tale of the entrepreneurial rise of his parents, Desdemona and Lefty. (They have their own genetic secret.) Ultimately Cal’s condition gives him a near mythic gift – “the ability to communicate between the genders, to see not with the monovision of one sex but in the stereoscope of both". Middlesex bridged the gap between critical and commercial acclaim, as well, winning a Pulitzer and selling millions of copies. (Picador)
作者这样开篇:“我拥有两次生命:第一次是1960年1月,一个晴朗无雾的日子作为一个女婴出生在底特律;第二次是1974年8月在密歇根佩托斯基的一个急诊室里作为一个男孩重生。 ”14岁的卡莉欧碧·斯迪芬奈兹患上了罕见的基因隐性突变,使她成为了一名阴阳人。卡莉欧碧考虑到自己的男性本性,她变性成了卡尔。尤金尼德斯用意趣盎然的语言讲述了卡尔的成长故事,以及卡尔父母列夫提和苔丝狄蒙娜的创业经历(他们也有自己不为人知的基因缺陷)。最终,卡尔的基因问题却让他拥有了一项神奇的能力——“他能自由地游走在两性世界之间,从双性的立体角度思考问题而不仅仅站在单性的角度”。《中性》不仅荣获了普利策奖,而且销量百万,在文学成就和商业成就上都表现地很突出。(Picador出版社)
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