Three Strong Women
- 作者:John (TRN),Marie/ Fletcher,Ndiaye
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:2012-08-07
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0307594696
- ISBN13:9780307594693
- 裝訂:精裝 / 15.9 x 23.5 x 3.2 cm / 普通級 / 譯本
2001年費米娜文學獎.2009年龔固爾文學獎
天才作家瑪麗.恩迪亞耶
我們時代的吳爾芙
打破作家不能兼獲費米娜和龔固爾兩大獎的魔咒
亂倫、頂罪、偷渡、背叛、賣身、禁錮、謀殺...
刻畫卑微而堅韌的女性,雖身居污穢之境仍自許靈魂高貴
穿越非洲與法國,三首震懾人心的塞內加爾女性生命之歌
成功的女律師諾拉從小和父親分離,她的父親在她八歲時拋下妻子和諾拉姊妹,只帶五歲的弟弟回到非洲另組家庭。今天,陌生的老父親意外來訊,要諾拉火速回非洲為弟弟打官司,她的弟弟被控謀殺繼母,身陷囹圄。重逢之後,她發現父親如今不再富有,她原本渴望的神氣形象已被歲月改變了容貌,但諾拉仍懾服於他殘餘的威嚴,甚至在爭辯中不意尿失禁……隨著幾次探訪弟弟,諾拉發現案情並不單純,他們的父親竟然涉嫌這椿謀殺案。
芳達接受了丈夫魯迪的建議,一家三口離開塞內加爾,來到魯迪的家鄉一個滿眼葡萄園的法國小鎮生活。可是芳達不能再當老師了,離開非洲意謂著身分地位的放棄。然而魯迪,像是被下了蠱一般,沒能振作起來賺錢養家,原本是文學教師的他因毆打學生遭到革職,如今是業績最差的廚具銷售員。早晨,魯迪對著愛妻咆哮,他懷疑妻子不軌,同時他也幻想著,現實是一場惡夢,有一天他會醒來,和妻子回到甜美默契的時刻。
結婚三年一心懷孕,而丈夫就在她體溫升高的日子猝死,嘉蒂成了寡婦,還被婆家趕出門。她被迫踏上前往法國投靠表親的偷渡之旅,在路上她遇見男孩拉米納,他溫柔無言地保護著她,並第一次讓她嘗到性的歡愉。旅程伊始,卻已盤纏用盡,嘉蒂不得已賣身以養活兩人,但這不影響她作為驕傲的嘉蒂.丹巴,不折損她靈魂的高度。當離開非洲的日子愈來愈近了,車資即將湊足,拉米納卻盜走了她全部的錢,消失得無蹤無影。
三個故事彷彿緊湊的社會新聞,穿越非洲與法國的時空,一場男人與女人的抗爭,恩迪亞耶用快慢快的敘事變奏、特殊的敘述視角,詮釋性別裡的強權對弱勢的奴役與掌控,然而堅強是一種態度,即使現實難以突圍,三個女人仍保有直面的勇氣,張力十足。
In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful.
This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged, tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a modest but contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white boyfriend back to France, where his delusional depression and sense of failure poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband’s family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin (the aforementioned Fanta) who lives in France, a place Khady can scarcely conceive of but toward which she must now take desperate flight.
With lyrical intensity, Marie NDiaye masterfully evokes the relentless denial of dignity, to say nothing of happiness, in these lives caught between Africa and Europe. We see with stunning emotional exactitude how ordinary women discover unimagined reserves of strength, even as their humanity is chipped away. Three Strong Women admits us to an immigrant experience rarely if ever examined in fiction, but even more into the depths of the suffering heart.
★本書中譯版《三個折不斷的女人》由自由之丘出版。
作者簡介
瑪麗.恩迪亞耶Marie NDiaye
法國最受注目的中生代作家之一,1967年生於法國,父親是塞內加爾人,母親是法國人,從小和哥哥在母親的獨力撫養下長大。十二三歲即開始寫作,是一位天才型作家,年僅十七歲時,子夜出版社的總編輯蘭東就站在她的中學門口,手上拿著她的首部小說《關於遠大的前程》合約等她下課。2001年,她以小說《羅茜.卡爾普》(Rosie Carpe)贏得費米娜文學獎。恩迪亞耶亦是劇作家,曾以《爸爸必須吃飯》入選法蘭西劇院的保留劇目,這是獲得此項殊榮的第二部由女性創作的作品。她還和法國女導演克萊兒.鄧尼斯(Claire Denis)共同創作電影劇本《白色物質》(White Material),影片由兩獲坎城影后的法國女星伊莎貝拉.雨蓓主演。
2009年瑪麗.恩迪亞耶獲得法國最著名的龔固爾文學獎,打破了「作家不能兼獲費米娜和龔固爾兩項大獎」的魔咒,她是該獎創立(1903)以來,首位獲獎的黑人作家,也是少數摘取龔固爾桂冠的女性作家。受頒該獎時她表示:「我非常高興以一個女性接受龔固爾獎」。雖有一半非裔血統,直到22歲才首次踏上父親的非洲土地,她的小說不乏有塞內加爾背景、或以非洲女性為主角,然而關注的仍然是普遍的人性:人的孤獨、人性之惡與其良知、人的漂移與身分認同。她對於卑微人物的刻畫與女性深層心境的描寫,其力道與細膩常能撼痛人心。《觀點》雜誌稱譽本書為「普魯斯特和福克納在非洲的天空下交談」。
Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, France, in 1967; spent her childhood with her French mother (her father was Senegalese); and studied linguistics at the Sorbonne. She started writing when she was twelve or thirteen years old and was only eighteen when her first work was published. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina literary prize for her novel Rosie Carpe, and in 2009, she won the Prix Goncourt for Three Strong Women.