LAST STOP SALINA CRUZ

Book ID/图书代码： 07861208B21029

English Summary/英文概要： Fleeing from the tedium of his everyday life and the painful memory of a dying father, the narrator of Last Stop: Salina Cruz embarks on a long solitary journey retracing the footsteps of real-life malcontent and misanthrope par-excellence Arthur Cravan, the nephew of Oscar Wilde. As a lambasting critic, poet-boxer and Dadaist anti-hero, Cravan wreaked havoc on himself and three continents during the course of a short and spectacular life, which led him across the world in an escalating frenzy of self-destruction.
Along the way, our young protagonist encounters every species of grotesque human character blighting Europe, the United States and South America, until he reaches the shores of the desolate oil town of Salina Cruz, the site of Cravan’s mysterious disappearance. Only there does the true purpose of his journey become at last apparent. Often funny, always compelling, Last Stop Salina Cruz - David Lalé’s stunning debut novel - is a masterpiece of creative and comical misery.
ABOUT ARTHUR CRAVAN: Poet, professor, noisician, forger, sailor, pimp, lumberjack, thief, Arthur Cravan was a cultural provocateur. His messy brilliance was reflected in his pledge to publicly commit suicide. Cravan filled his poems and critical writings with longing references to freedom and new frontiers alongside hallucinatory prose fragments and seemingly arbitrary yet bilious personal assaults on his fellow artists. Cravan travelled widely after the outbreak of the First World War. In New York city he fell in love with the poet Mina Loy. They travelled together to Mexico, where Cravan disappeared in 1918.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 厌倦了每日单调的生活，为了走出丧父的痛苦，故事的叙述者独自开展一段旅程，寻找最有名的愤世嫉俗者亚瑟·克雷文的足迹。克雷文的一生短暂而精彩，却影响巨大。在他的带动下，自残的热情在世界范围升温。 年轻的主人公沿途遇到了闪耀欧美的各式人物，最后他抵达了荒凉的石油城市萨利那·克鲁兹——克雷文神秘失踪的地方。在那里，他明白了此行的真正目的。作为大卫·拉雷的处女作，《萨利那·克鲁兹——最后一站》妙趣横生，引人入胜，是喜剧式悲剧的典范之作。 关于亚瑟·克雷文：诗人、教师、铁匠、水手、伐木工人、盗贼。文化密探。因宣称公开自杀而出名。他的诗作和评论运用幻觉性的文字片断，充斥着对自由和新边疆的向往，并伴有对其他艺术家看似无意实则无情的人身攻击。第一次世界大战爆发后，克雷文四处游历。他在纽约市恋上诗人米娜·洛伊，两人同游墨西哥。而克雷文1918年于此地失踪。

Awards/获奖情况：The Independent
"... possesses a translucent, cinematic beauty."
The Sunday Telegraph
"Elegantly written, and by turns poignant and laugh-aloud funny, Last Stop Salina Cruz is a remarkably assured debut that would not have been out of place on the Booker longlist."
3:am magazine
Forget the Booker contenders, David Lalé is definitely the one to watch. No superlatives are strong enough to describe Lalé’s mesmerizing debut.
Metro
"Lale is a gifted stylist who makes poetry out of beautifully wrought misery."

About the Author/作者介绍： David Lalé studied at Edinburgh University and is currently on the documentary direction course at the National Film and Television School. Aged 27, he lives in Oxford. ’Last Stop ’Salina Cruz is his first book.
大卫·拉雷曾就读爱丁堡大学，现在国家演艺学院进修纪录片导演课程。27岁，居于牛津。本书是拉雷的处女作。

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