THE LYDIA STEPTOE STORIES: FABER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 05793019C00039
English Summary/英文概要： ’I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.’
In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.
A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become ’a virago’, until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father’s mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. ’Alice’, she tells herself, ’be a man.’
Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “我完全改变主意了。我打算逃走，然后变成一个男孩。”
在这个系列三部曲中，朱娜•巴恩斯化名莉迪亚•斯特普托，刻画了三个发现自己在性别觉醒边缘的角色——他们伴随着枪、鞭子和世俗的影射。
一个14岁的女孩计划成为一名“泼妇”，直到她的母亲装扮成她的男性恋人，阻碍她的第一次约会。一个同龄的男孩被他父亲的情妇引诱到森林里。一个四十岁的女人坠入爱河，企图自杀，她认为自己想要恢复青春的执念是如此令人无法忍受。“爱丽丝”，她告诉自己，“像个男人一样坚强吧。”
巴恩斯把性别和欲望描写得既滑溜又欢快，还把虚构的莉迪亚•斯特普托塑造成了我们当今时代的作家。（XMM）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 朱娜•巴恩斯于1892年出生于纽约州哈德逊河畔的康沃尔。1912年，她进入普拉特学院学习，之后参加了艺术学生联盟，在那里她开始担任《布鲁克林之鹰》的记者和插画师。1921年，她搬到了巴黎，在那里生活了近20年，并为《名利场》和《纽约客》等刊物撰稿。《夜林》写于1936年，是她的第二本小说。现在它被认为是一部杰作，T•S•艾略特赞扬其为“风格上的伟大成就，措辞的华丽，机智和人物塑造的光辉，以及一种恐怖和厄运的品质，这与伊丽莎白时代的悲剧非常相似”。其他作品包括一本书、短篇小说集、诗集和独幕剧，一本讽刺小说《女士年鉴》和一首诗《轮流吟唱的歌》。她于1982年在纽约去世。
Djuna Barnes was born in 1892 in Cornwall-on-Hudson in New York State. In 1912 she enrolled as a student at Pratt Institute and then at the Art Students’ League, and while she was there she started to work as a reporter and illustrator for the Brooklyn Eagle. In 1921 she moved to Paris, where she lived for almost twenty years and wrote for such publications as Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Nightwood, written in 1936, was her second novel. It is now considered a masterpiece, praised by T. S. Eliot for its ’great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy’. Her other works include A Book, a collection of short stories, poems and one-act plays; a satirical novel, Ladies Almanack; and a verse play, The Antiphon. She died in New York in 1982.
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