书籍介绍
这并非一部让人畅快读下去的通俗小说。它辞藻繁密、叙述者频频插入长篇议论,有人读到八成就转了中文译本,也有人嫌它"刻意的"、"以情节驱动不足"。但正是这种"读得不容易",构成了它最独特的价值:Chabon 把漫画英雄的生诞,写成了一代人的精神史。约瑟夫从纳粹包围的布拉格死里逃生,与表兄萨米在布鲁克林造出"Escape Artists""月蛾"——这些虚构人物反过来成了真实世界的避难所。书里反复出现"黄金时代"的错觉:战前纽约人明明身处战火边缘,却安坐壁炉前啜茶读书。它真正追问的,是艺术如何替普通人保管希望——"我相信一百年后仍会有孩子想知道超人的故事"。适合愿意为文字付出耐心、又对"流行文化为何动人"这件事较真的人。
作者简介
Michael Chabon (b. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. He then published Wonder Boys (1995), another bestseller, which was made into a film starring Michael Douglas. One of America’s most distinctive voices, Chabon has been called “a magical prose stylist” by the New York Times Book Review, and is known for his lively writing, nostalgia for bygone modes of storytelling, and deep empathy for the human predicament.