6. Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
迈克尔·夏邦,《卡瓦利尔和克雷的神奇冒险》 (2000年)
Joe Kavalier, a Houdini-like escape artist, smuggles himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague in 1939 and ends up in New York City. With his Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay he invents a superhero character called the Escapist and launches the golden age of comic books. "Chabon's capacious, propulsive and many-storied novel is exquisitely written, emotionally rich and historically and morally profound," says Booklist senior editor Donna Seaman, who made the Pulitzer Prize winner her number-one choice. "It can also be seen as a bridge between the 20th and 21st centuries in its perspective on WWII and the birth of comic-book superheroes as a new. Chabon's novel has greatly influenced other outstanding works of 21st Century fiction. But The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is also a timeless inquiry into our tragic proclivity for hate and war, our abiding need for stories and our persistent longing for magical powers and transcendence." (Random House)
乔·卡瓦利尔是一位艺术家,1939年,他奇迹般地从布拉格的纳粹集中营逃脱,最终抵达纽约。卡瓦利尔和住在布鲁克林的表兄弟萨米·克雷联手设计了一个叫“逃脱侠”的超级英雄,由此开启了漫画书的黄金时代。这本书曾荣获普利策奖,《书目杂志》资深编辑多纳·西曼将这本书列为他的书单的第一位,“夏邦采用了宽广博大、层层推进的创作手法,写法上精巧,情感上丰沛,历史和道德意义深远。二战期间诞生了超级英雄漫画,这本小说从这个角度搭建起了20世纪和21世纪的桥梁,并极大地影响了21世纪其他的优秀作品。但《卡瓦利尔和克雷的神奇冒险》也提出了一个永恒的疑问,关于仇恨和战争的悲剧性、人类对传奇故事持久不竭的需求,对神奇力量、超脱存在的持久不变的渴望。”(Random House出版社)
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