MY LIFE AS A FAKE

Book ID/图书代码： 11701204B05585

English Summary/英文概要： In his remarkable new novel, the two-time Booker-winning author Peter Carey creates a Creature as indelible as Frankenstein.
In Melbourne in the 1950s, an arrogant young Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the trendiest of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb’s imagination. Not only does the magazine fall for the hoax, but the local authorities also sue its editor for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily resembling the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle leaps to his feet. At this moment a horrified Chubb is confronted by the malevolent being he has himself manufactured.
Using as a springboard a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in his boyhood, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how the phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur. Inexorably the Creature steals Chubb’s life, eclipsing him as a poet and a man. In a twist that is truly devilish, Chubb’s own existence finally comes to depend on the Creature’s “real” unpublished poems.
Peter Carey has composed a manic, endearing and penetrating ode to fakery at its most truthful and truth at its most fake, a novel that penetrates to the heart of the alchemy of literature itself.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 两届布克奖获奖作家Peter Carey的又一精彩新作，他创造的人物不朽，堪称科学怪人第二。 上世纪50年代的墨尔本，一位名叫Christopher Chubb年轻自负的诗人决心要好好教训教训自己的祖国，什么叫虚假，什么叫真实。他选中了当时最时髦的文学杂志作为他的目标，向该杂志社投了一份Bob McCorkle全集作品------Bob McCorkle是Chubb杜撰出一位出生工人阶级的诗人,他追求赤裸裸的权利和坦白的性观念,并在24岁的时候适时的死去了。杂志不仅仅轻易上当了，而且还被当局起诉了，因为他们出版黄色刊物。在受审当天，一位相貌酷似杜撰出来的McCorkle的神秘人一跃而起，此时此刻，恐慌之极的Chubb不得不直面这位他亲手制造出来的恶棍。 Peter Carey借着曾经发生在他童年时代的一个轰动了整个澳大利亚的真实的文学恶作剧作为引路石，巧妙且不无悔恨地追溯了恶魔诗人是如何取笑、作弄、死死缠着Chubb，甚至要杀了他的故事，McCorkle从墨尔本一路跟踪Chubb，最后来到纷乱的热带吉隆坡，把Chubb逼上绝路，害得他陷入潦倒、落迫和凄凉的境域。这个恶魔残忍地夺走了Chubb的生活，取代了他诗人地位，使他的生活黯然失色，索然无味。在曲折命运残酷的安排下，Chubb本人的生存问题居然 最后还要依赖那位恶魔诗人所谓创作来的那些未出版的诗文。 《假面人生》是一部近似疯狂的颂歌，以犀利地语言歌颂了最真实的虚假，最虚假的真实，一部直击文坛虚假面的作品。

Awards/获奖情况："Peter Carey’s new novel, My Life as a Fake, is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling in its plot that something, we feel, must be wrong with it."--John Updike, "The New Yorker"

About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Australia and lives in New York. He is the author of seven previous novels, Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda,The Tax Inspector... In 2001 Peter Carey became only the second author to win the Booker Prize twice with True History of the Kelly Gang.

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