7. Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
詹妮弗·伊根,《恶棍来访》(2010年)
Egan's Proustian meditation on time, fame and music won the National Book Critics Circle and Pulitzer awards. Who's the goon of the title? "Time is the stealth goon, the one you ignore because you are so busy worrying about the goons right in front of you," she says. Egan concocts her narrative around punk rocker-turned-music producer Bennie Salazar, his sticky-fingered assistant Sasha and a circle of wannabes, has-beens and hangers-on. Colette Bancroft, book editor of The Tampa Bay Times, named Egan's novel her top pick "not just because it is a splendidly written experiment in form that succeeds resoundingly, but because the 21st Century is its essential subject matter. Egan juxtaposes timeless literary themes, most notably the inexorable journey from youth to age, with an exploration of the ways in which a rapidly changing world reshapes the human experience. It's a novel that is prescient, surprising, wise and simply a blast to read." (Anchor)
伊根对时间、声誉和音乐进行的普鲁斯特式思考成就了此书,并因此荣获美国国家书评人奖和普利策奖。那标题中的恶棍是谁呢?“时间是最大的恶棍。人们总是因为忙于担忧眼前的‘恶棍’而忽略了时间这个隐藏的恶棍。”作者讲述了一些列故事:曾经的朋克摇滚歌手、现在的音乐制作人——本尼·萨拉查,有盗窃癖的女助手萨莎,以及一群想成名的人、曾经成名的人和无处不在的疯狂的粉丝。《塔帕湾时报》的图书编辑科莱特班·克罗夫特在他的书单中将《恶棍来访》列为第一位,“不仅仅因为这本小说的写作手法颇具实验性且异常成功,更因为此书的基本主题是21世纪。伊根将永恒的文学主题——不可阻挡的韶华易逝,以及如何在急速变化的世界中改变自己适应社会并列起来,给读者带去了睿智的、有先见之明的,但又惊奇简单的阅读体验。”(Anchor出版社)
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