“As baby boomers approach their 70s and Alzheimer’s disease becomes increasingly commonplace, more and more fiction writers are attempting to reach into that obscure space,” noted Stefan Merrill Block in The New Yorker last August.
今年8月,斯蒂芬·梅里尔·布洛克(Stefan Merrill Block)在《纽约客》(The New Yorker)中指出,“随着婴儿潮一代进入70岁, 阿尔茨海默氏症也变得越来越普遍,越来越多的小说家正试图对这个幽暗的领域进行探索。”
Block himself reached into it for his first novel, “The Story of Forgetting,” in 2008. The novel “Still Alice,” on which the movie is based, was published around that time and went on to sell more than a million copies.
布洛克在2008年自己的第一部小说《遗忘的故事》(The Story of Forgetting)中就是这样做的。作为电影原著的小说《我想念我自己》,也是大概在那个时候出版的,其销量超过了100万册。
Its author, Lisa Genova, told me that its success underscores not only how many families have been touched by Alzheimer’s but how many had been trapped in silence. “Any disease of the brain has a stigma,” she said. “It’s not like the heart or the kidney. This is something that’s wrong with you.”
这部小说的作者莉萨·杰诺瓦(Lisa Genova)告诉我,它的成功不仅说明多少家庭受到了阿尔茨海默氏症的影响,也说明了有多少人在被迫保持沉默。 “任何脑部疾病都像是个耻辱,”她说。 “它不像心脏或肾脏。而是你本人出了问题。”
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