The Box简介，目录书摘

2020-01-21 14:44 来源：京东作者：京东

内容简介:

In an audacious literary experiment, Günter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory--they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men. To say nothing of Marie, Grass’s assistant, a family friend of many years, perhaps even a lover, whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with ideas for his work. But her images offer much more. They reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, grant the wishes in visual form of those photographed. The children speculate on the nature of this magic: was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God?

Recalling J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Grass at his best.

作者简介:

Born on October 16, 1927 in Gdansk, Poland, Günter Grass was a member of the Hitler Youth in the 1930s. At the age of 16, he was drafted into the German military, was wounded, and became a prisoner of war in 1945. His first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), selected by the French as the best foreign language book of 1962, is the story of Oscar Matzerath, a boy who refuses to grow up as a protest to the cruelty of German society during the war. It is the first part of his Danzig trilogy, followed by Cat and Mouse (1961) and Dog Years (1963), and was made into a movie by director Volker Schlondorff, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979. His other works include Local Anaesthetic, The Flounder, Crabwalk, and Peeling the Onion. He has been honored many times, including a distinguished service medal from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980 which he refused to accept. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.

君特·格拉斯（Günter Grass，1927～）德意志联邦共和国作家。格拉斯的创作活动从诗歌开始，自1956年起发表3部诗集《风信鸡之优点》、《三角轨道》等，同时创作了荒诞剧《洪水》（1957）、《叔叔、叔叔》（1958）、《恶厨师》（1961）等。其中反响较大的是关于1953年柏林事件的《平民试验起义》（1966）。他最主要的成就是小说。1959年问世的长篇小说《铁皮鼓》使他获得世界声誉。此外还有《猫与鼠》（1961）、《非常岁月》（1963，亦译《狗年月》），合称为《但泽三部曲》，成为一幅描绘德国社会生活的画卷。《蟹行》是格拉斯1999年获得诺贝尔文学奖之后推出的新作，一面世就好评如潮，连续数月占据各大畅销书排行榜榜首，两周内售出25万册。1999年他成为成为20世纪最后一位诺贝尔文学奖获得者。

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