YOUTH
Book ID/图书代码： 10720001B01300
English Summary/英文概要： The second installment of J. M. Coetzee’s fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man’s struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 諾貝爾文學獎得主柯慈以第三人稱筆法寫出自己的青春歲月。小說裡的約翰是南非數學研究生，但他最鍾情的是文學，並在少年時就離南非家鄉，遠赴倫敦。在看似清淡的筆下，呈現出少年的多重心理：詩人的敏感、對愛情的懵懂，以及作為殖民地移民的自卑情結。這本虛實交織的私密小說是了解柯慈內心與解讀其作品的重要源頭。
兩次獲得布克獎的作家柯慈以第三人稱的方式，描寫少年時期的他如何在透過閱讀自我學習，並獲得夢寐以求到倫敦求學的過程。故事裡的約翰是個南非數學研究生，但他最鍾情的是文學，最後他逃離開普敦，來到他一心嚮往的倫敦，這本自傳體小說大膽揭露這位國際知名作家青春期的懵懂愛欲。全書虛實交構，被視為比柯慈得獎的小說更精采好讀，筆調清冷優雅，其中主角對自己從 南非來到倫敦後，產生自我認同的追尋以及對創作的渴望追求相當令人動容。(VC)
Awards/获奖情况："A delight to read: it will make you angry, amused, scornful and sympathetic by turns." ---San Francisco Chronicle "Coetzee makes a book of melancholy beauty and quiet force." ---Vince Passaro, O Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： The second installment of J. M. Coetzee’s fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man’s struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.
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