RANSACKING PARIS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540015B80210
English Summary/英文概要： What does it mean to fulfil a dream long after it seems possible? When Patti Miller arrives to write in Paris for a year, the world glows ’as if the light that comes after the sun has set hadspilled gold on everything’.
But wasn’t that just romantic illusion? Miller grew up on Wiradjuri land in country Australia where her heart and soul belonged. What did she think she would find in Paris that she couldn’t find at home? How could she belong in this city made of other people’s stories?
She turns to French writers, Montaigne, Rousseau, de Beauvoir and other memoirists, each one intent on knowing the self through gazing into the ’looking glass’ of the great world. They accompany her as she wanders the streets of Paris – they even have coffee together – and talk about love, suffering, desire, motherhood, memory, the writing journey - and the joys and responsibilities of ransacking..
Exploring truth and illusion, self-knowledge and identity, and family and cultures, Miller evokes the beauty, the contradictions and the daily life of contemporary Paris.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 实现梦寐以求的梦想意味着什么？当作者Patti Miller 来到巴黎写作时，全世界都变得熠熠生辉，阳光就好像金子般洒向大地。
但那仅仅只是浪漫的幻想吗？Miller在澳大利亚乡村长大，她的心灵和灵魂都属于那片土地。她认为在巴黎会有哪些家乡没有的东西呢？她又如何在这片属于他人的土地上找到归属感？
她在作品中谈到了法国作家Montaigne和 Rousseau等，他们试图通过世界之窗的镜子认识自我。在Miller漫步于巴黎街头的时候，他们“伴随”她左右，甚至一起喝咖啡，谈论爱情、痛苦、欲望、母爱以及写作历程，还有，仔细思索的快乐和责任……
Miller通过探索真谛和幻想、自我认知与身份、家庭与文华，唤醒了现代巴黎的美丽、冲突与日常生活……(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：Miller在巴黎的日子一直在琢磨文字、语言和书籍，她住在一间很小的公寓里，向往有一天能够在合唱团里唱歌。然而，她的视野更宽，在她的作品中，她想象着“结识”了自己崇拜的法国作家，想象着和 Rousseau、Voltaire 和Montaigne 喝咖啡。她的丈夫和两个儿子也出现在作品里，作品还提到了那些和她练习法语、并成为朋友的妇女们，尤其是那个开心活泼的Vicky，Vicky向她出借农场。本书兼具文学历史和日常生活细节，非常精彩
。“Miller’s year in Paris is, naturally, spent wrestling with the language, with her book, with a difficult, tiny apartment (which she manages to leave for a more suitable one) and with her ambition to sing in a local choir. However, her horizons are much wider, as she makes the acquaintance of her beloved French writers ‘at home’, as it were. She imagines having coffee with Rousseau, Voltaire, Montaigne, Simone de Beauvoir, Madame de Sévigné and others as she introduces the reader to each one in a few illuminating pages. Her husband and two almost-adult sons come and go throughout the narrative, as do the women who give her French conversation practice and become friends, particularly the delightful Vicky, who lends the family her romantic ancestral farm. A clever writer, Miller allows the many distractions of Paris to panic us into believing that she will never finish the manuscript, which almost becomes another character in this book. The combination of literary history and domestic detail sets the book above its rivals. Any Francophile should love it”.
About the Author/作者介绍： Patti Miller （1954年出生）澳大利亚作家，出生并成长于澳大利亚新南威尔士州。她持有悉尼科技大学传媒学士学位和写作硕士学位。她著有六部书籍以及众多文章和散文，其作品发表于各类国家报刊和文学杂志。她在悉尼科技大学任教，教授文学与写作。
Patti的回忆录《盗贼心理》荣获新南威尔士总理大奖历史类奖项，并入围西澳总理大奖非小说类奖项。
Patti Miller (born 1954), an Australian writer, was born and grew up near Wellington, New South Wales, Australia. She holds a BA (Communications) and an MA (Writing) from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She is the author of six books and numerous articles and essays published in national newspapers and literary magazines. She has taught literature and writing at UTS, University of Western Sydney, Sydney Writers’ Centre and other writers’ centres and is the founder and director of its Life Stories Workshop, which aims to develop and support memoir writing.
Patti’s memoir The Mind of a Thief (UQP) won the NSW Premier’s History Prize – NSW Community & Regional History Prize, was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction and longlisted for other prizes including the Nita B. Kibble Award.
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