KAFKA’S SOUP: A COMPLETE HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE IN 14 RECIPES

Book ID/图书代码： 06945006B09741

English Summary/英文概要： I needed a table at Maxim’s, a hundred bucks, and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues. I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner’s handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade in my hand I sliced an onion, and before I knew what I was doing a carrot lay in pieces on the slab. None of them moved. —from “LAMB WITH DILL SAUCE À LA RAYMOND CHANDLER”
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to make dinner with Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, or Raymond Chandler, this is the chance to find out.
Literary ventriloquist Mark Crick presents fourteen recipes in the voices of famous writers, from Homer to Virginia Woolf to Irvine Welsh.
Guaranteed to delight anyone in love with food and books, these witty pastiches will keep you so entertained in the kitchen that you’ll be sorry when the guests arrive.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果你想知道和世界文學大師 弗朗茨‧卡夫卡(Franz Kafka)、珍‧奧斯汀(Jane Austen)、雷蒙‧錢德勒(Raymond Chandler)一起做晚餐會是什麼樣子，這將是你的大好機會！
Mark Crick將全球知名作家的作品中所提到的食材，以獨一無二的創新手法，改寫成十四份帶有濃厚文學色彩的食譜。例如為Raymond Chandler而寫的Lamb with Dill Sauce、Jane Austen的Tarragon Eggs、Franz Kafka的Quick Miso Soup、Proust的Tiramisu、Steinbeck的Mushroom Risotto、Virginia Woolf的Clafoutis Grandmère、Graham Greene的Vietnamese Chicken、Chaucer的Onion Tart等…熱愛文學與美食的你絕對不可錯過。
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/style/tmagazine/03tlamb.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Cooking%20and%20Cookbooks

Awards/获奖情况："In this lovingly executed little volume of literary parodies, Mr. Crick mines his early obsessions with food and fiction … a small but sparkling marriage of the tasteful and the tasty."---The Wall Street Journal

"Brief and witty and also useful: pastiche with a purpose … Mr. Crick is evidently a man of many talents: his recipes are both plausible and appetizing; his literary impersonations are all cleverly executed and, in patches, brilliant; and the illustrations (also by Mr. Crick) are playful pastiche, too."---The New York Observer

London-based photographer Crick’s whimsical book consists of pastiches of famous writers having culinary adventures. John Steinbeck’s Depression-era risotto is a parched affair: "The porcini lay dry and wrinkled, each slice twisted by thirst." The Marquis de Sade’s heroine Justine offers a through-the-keyhole account of her captor’s preparation of Boned, Stuffed Poussins: "I had no idea that a small bird could take so much stuffing, but he carried on, using language that my ears could barely suffer, until the poor bird could take no more." Crick easily evokes the serene wisdom of Jane Austen, in a recipe for Tarragon Eggs: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that eggs, kept for too long, go off." From Raymond Chandler’s edgy account of cooking lamb to Gabriel García Márquez’s epic Coq au Vin, from Harold Pinter’s one-act Cheese on Toast to Chaucer’s versified instructions for Onion Tart, Crick ranges easily throughout world literature, perfectly capturing the voice of each writer. Not content with this capricious achievement, Crick supplies his own color illustrations, likewise works of pastiche, gently mocking, among others, Andy Warhol, William Hogarth, Jean Cocteau, Vincent van Gogh and Henry Moore. This is a delight for literary foodies. (Nov.) ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Mark Crick was born in London in 1962. A book lover from a very young age, Mark Crick studied French literature at the Lycée Condorcet and read English and comparative literature at the University of Warwick. A professional photographer, Mark Crick has also worked as a journalist and illustrator. He is a widely travelled man. Kafka’s soup is his first book. He is currently at work on several other book projects, amongst which is another book of pastiches.
Mark Crick生於1962年的倫敦，從小熱愛閱讀，曾於巴黎康多賽中學(Lycée Condorcet)學習法國文學，以及英國華威大學(University of Warwick)研讀英國文學與比較文學。Mark Crick不但是專業的攝影師，也是新聞記者與插畫家。本書為作者的第一部著作，目前仍持續創作其他作品。
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