The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

出版社

Vintage

出版时间

1989-09-19

ISBN

9780679722564

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
霍林赫斯特在三十四歲出版的第一部作品《游泳池更衣室》(The Swimming-Pool Library,一九八八年出版)可以说是部披了同志小說外衣的歷史小說,有點像披了羊皮的狼。霍林赫斯特愛玩文字遊戲,連書名也不放過。《游泳池更衣室》通常直接按照英文書名譯為《游泳池圖書館》,但什麼是「游泳池圖書館」,以及「游泳池圖書館員」?太玄了吧?其實,解釋藏在書中第七章。主人翁在小時候就讀貴族中學(霍林赫斯特特別愛寫貴族中學、貴族大學的生活──可見他特別懷舊,對上流社會又愛又恨),該校習慣用「圖書館員」一詞來稱「股長」之類的學生職位。台灣中小學的「風紀股長」可以按照這種邏輯改叫「風紀圖書館員」;英國中學的「田徑圖書館員」當然不掌管書。「游泳池圖書館員」就是「游泳股長」,而這個股長平時打混的地方,泳池更衣室──一個充滿性幻想、窺視、曝露的純男空間──就成了游泳池圖書館。 艾倫‧霍林赫斯特(Alan Hollinghurst)最讓人津津樂道之處,大概是他描寫男同志肉慾場面的功力。此君一寫起俊美少年尤其欲罷不能,將美男的一顰一笑盡收書裡。要把男同志情慾寫得秀色可餐不簡單,而把「小小的」同志情慾和「澎湃的」歷史視野交織揉合更是挑戰。 作者將《游泳池更衣室》題獻給一位只活到二十五歲的「尼克」君,尼克這個名字對原作者應該極具意義;但,文學史上有個頂頂大名的旁觀者也叫尼克──費茲傑羅的《大亨小傳》就是透過尼克的眼去觀視大亨蓋茲比的世界。
精彩摘录
  • "My aptitude, from the tropically early onslaught of puberty forwards, had been so narrowly, thought abundantly, for playing with myself and others, that it was only in my last term, as a shooting, tumid thirteen-year-old, that I achieved official status, and was appointed Swimming-Pool Librarian. My"
  • "James's experience, like mine with the skinheads, made me abruptly selfconscious, gave me an urge to solidarity with my kind that I wasn't used to in our liberal times. In the busy one o'clock changing-room, cross though I was, I looked at the others, the bankers, the teachers, the journos, the adve"
  • "'It's this idea that rather appeals to me, of seeing adults as children. His adults don't have any dignity as adults, they're all like over-indulged children following their own caprices and inclinations...' 'Well, I don't know!' Charles gave a brusque laugh of disagreement. 'Don't you feel that, th"
  • "'... I'm not against Gay Lib and all that, of course, William, but it has taken a lot of the fun out of it, a lot of the frisson. I think the 1880s must have been an ideal time, with brothels full of off-duty soldiers, and luscious young dukes chasing after barrow-boys. Even in the Twenties and Thir"
  • "'Isn't there a kind of blind spot,' James said, 'for that period just before one was born? One knows about the Second World War, one knows about Suez, I suppose, but what people were actually getting up to in those years... There's an empty, motiveless space until one appears on the scene. What do y"
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Alan Hollinghurst
Haunting, beautiful, lyrical, and ultimately heartbreaking.
DNF at 32%。受不了又是这样全民皆gay的设定,剧情也不吸引人。描写都很色气但是色气不能当饭吃啊,还是弃了吧太没意思。
“Oh baby oh baby oh we both know the truth.”
谁有中文版。。。可以发给我吗。。谢谢
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