THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE
Book ID/图书代码： 04560016B90955
English Summary/英文概要： Unique and breathless, Memorial Device is an astonishing portrait of the dreams, transgressions, hopes, fears and disillusionments of youth in the 80s post-punk era
A leading literary piece for Faber Fiction in 2017, this is an atmospheric tale about music and people and a time capsule where voices & narrators bump into each other to celebrate a moment in time when anything seemed possible.
There was once a time when to be in a band meant to be on the fringes of society; to be teetering on the very edge of civilisation, and the civilised. The days before Coldplay, Mumford and Sons, Ellie Goulding. The dark days of early Thatcherism, when money, housing and fun were hard to come by. A generation of musicians, artists and avant garde entrepreneurs, brought up on the vitriol and can-do anarchism of punk, seized this moment and with the spirit of the Situationists, turned oppression into opportunity. Bands like Throbbing Gristle, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, Siouxsie and the Banshees were the fearless frontieersmen of that scene. In this wild and utterly intoxicating debut novel, David Keenan presents the story of one of the great, lost postpunk bands, Memoiral Device -- only this time as fiction.
Set in Airdrie, a north Lanarkshire town on the fringes of Glasgow, Memorial Device takes place in the early 80s. In 26 glorious chapters, each told in the individual voices of the key instigators and innovators of the local postpunk scene, David Keenan recreates a world neglected by and lost to history. Here are stories of depraved sexual transgression, cosmic musical misadventure and artistic endeavour on the margins of good taste. Here is a world of such vitality that the boundaries between good and bad taste are re-drawn as irrelevant and arbitrary. And at the centre of it is the story of Memorial Device: a demented group of Scottish artists and musicians on a collision course with a destiny to fail.
This is a novel that trails brightness and urgency, love and sadness, faith and despair, with the fierceness of a cursed meteor. It takes the world documented so satisfyingly in Rip it Up and Start Again and invests it with the playful invention of David Foster Wallace at the top of his game in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. It is perhaps the funniest, most desperate, and most moving, British novel ever written about a band who may, or may not, have existed.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 独特而令人欲罢不能，《怀念装置》描述了80年代后朋克时期年轻人们关于梦想，犯错，希望，恐惧和失望的故事。
《怀念装置》将成为2017年费伯小说奖的有力角逐者，这是一部关于音乐和人们的现象级小说，具有时间胶囊般的魔力，带人们回到那个什么都有可能实现的年代。
曾经有一段时间，如果你组了个乐队就会被社会边缘化，被文明和文明人所不齿。这段时光在酷玩乐队,芒福德和儿子,艾莉•高尔丁之前，是早期撒切尔主义的黑暗岁月，金钱，房产，快乐都来得很艰难。新一代的音乐家，艺术家和企业家们就在如硫酸般的阻碍和乐观进取的无政府朋克精神下成长起来，将压迫变为机会。像悸动的软骨，四人帮，表演者和女妖这些流行乐队就是当时时代背景下无所畏惧的先锋人物。在这本狂野而令人陶醉的处女作中，大卫•基南讲述了后朋克时代最伟大的乐队——怀念装置。
故事背景设置在埃尔德里，格拉斯哥北拉纳克郡小镇，怀念装置于80年代早期成立。本书的26个章节都由后朋克时期主要的调查员和创新者独立完成，基南就这样还原了一个被人们遗忘和忽略的时代。本书中有堕落的性犯罪，经典音乐剧所遭遇的不幸以及艺术在阻扰下不断的发展。这是一个充满活力的世界，好品味和坏品味没有明确的界限。《怀念装置》的核心思想是一群疯狂的苏格兰艺术家和音乐家之间的碰撞和注定失败的命运。
这部小说希望与紧凑交织，描述了爱情与悲伤，信念与失望的故事。《怀念装置》可能是最有趣，最绝望，也最感人的英国乐队小说，然后这个乐队是否真的存在过却无从得知。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：“我从未读过这样的一本书，接二连三地击中了人们内心的世界。大卫的这本书非常丰富，有趣，真诚，细腻。每个人都应该读读。”——库什•芬妮•图提
About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫•基南的作品有《英格兰的隐藏反抗势力》，《科伊尔的历史》，《护士和伤员》。大卫现居于格拉斯哥，担任《威尔杂志》的高级评论员。
David Keenan is the author of England’s Hidden Reverse, a history of Coil, Nurse With Wound and Current 93 that since its publication in 2003 has become a classic. He lives in Glasgow and is a senior critic at Wire Magazine.
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