FEVER OF ANIMALS
Book ID/图书代码： 11980515B80032
English Summary/英文概要： ‘For nearly five years I have wanted to write something about the surrealist painter Emil Bafdescu: about his paintings, one of which hangs in a little restaurant in Melbourne, and about his disappearance, which is still a mystery. But this is probably not going to be the book I imagined. Nothing has quite worked out the way I planned.’
With the inheritance he received upon his father’s death, Miles has come to Europe on the trail of the Romanian surrealist, who disappeared into a forest in 1967. But in trying to unravel the mystery of Bafdescu’s secret life, Miles must also reckon with his own.
Faced with a language and a landscape that remain stubbornly out of reach, and condemned to wait for someone who may never arrive, Miles is haunted by thoughts of his ex-girlfriend, Alice, and the trip they took to Venice that ended their relationship.
Uncanny, occasionally absurd, and utterly original, Fever of Animals is a beautifully written meditation on art and grief.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “近五年的时间里，我一直想写一些关于超现实主义画家Emil Bafdescu的文章，关于他的画作，其中一幅挂在墨尔本一家小餐厅里；关于他的突然消失，至今仍是个谜。然而，这部作品恐怕不是我当初想象的那样，似乎事情并未朝着我计划的方向发展。”
Miles继承了父亲的遗产后，来到欧洲，追寻1967年失踪于森林的罗马尼亚超现实主义画家的踪迹。然而，在试图揭开 Bafdescu的神秘人生的同时，Miles必须预测自己的人生。
面对陌生的语言、陌生的环境，等待一个或许永远不会出现的人，Miles不禁想起了自己的前女友Alice，想起了他们一起前往威尼斯的旅程，而就是这段旅程，结束了他们的关系。《动物狂热》百分百原创，故事充满神秘色彩，略带荒诞，语言优美，对艺术和悲伤有着相当深刻的思考。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：Fever of Animals has won the People’s Choice Award in the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards
“2014维州文学大奖未发表手稿大奖”获奖小说
小说简介：
Miles继承了父亲的遗产后，来到欧洲，追寻1967年失踪于森林的罗马尼亚超现实主义画家的踪迹。然而，在试图揭开 Bafdescu的神秘人生的同时，Miles必须预测自己的人生。
语言不通，环境陌生，注定要等待一个或许永远不会出现的人，Miles想起了自己的前女友Alice，想起了他们一起前往威尼斯的旅程，而就是这段旅程，结束了他们的关系。
《动物狂热》情节紧凑，文笔敏锐细腻，小说探讨了艺术和迷失，讲述了主人公探索内心地狱的旅程，颇具层次感。
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award 2014
Here’s the blurb:
With the inheritance he received upon his father’s death, Miles has come to Europe on the trail of the Romanian surrealist, who disappeared into a forest in 1967. But in trying to write about Bafdescu’s secret life, Miles must also reckon with his own.
Isolated by both language and geography, and condemned to wait for someone who may never arrive, Miles is haunted by thoughts of his ex-girlfriend, Alice, and the trip they took to Venice that ended their relationship.
Intense, strange, and exquisitely written, Fever of Animals is a multilayered story of art and loss, and one man’s journey into his own underworld.
About the Author/作者介绍： Miles Allinson是一名作家兼艺术家。1981年生于墨尔本，曾就读于史丹纳教育体系和天主教教会学校，持有墨尔本大学创意艺术学士学位和创意写作博士学位，以及 RMIT大学美术学硕士学位。《动物狂热》是其第一部小说，荣获了“2014维多利亚总理文学奖未发表手稿大奖。”
Miles Allinson is a writer and artist. He was born in Melbourne in 1981 and was educated in both the Steiner and the Catholic school systems. He has a Bachelor of Creative Arts and a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne, as a well as a Masters Degree in Fine Arts (Art in Public Space) from RMIT University. Fever of Animals is his first novel, and won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2014.
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