HEIDEGGER’S GLASSES
Book ID/图书代码： 10849010B35033
English Summary/英文概要： A startling, surreal debut novel from critically acclaimed short story writer and essayist Thaisa Frank, HEIDIGGER’S GLASSES confronts the Third Reich’s obsession with the occult, which in the novel has led them to create the Compound of Scribes, hidden in a forest, built underground in a converted mine shaft and designed to resemble a pleasant village with a rose-colored cobblestone street and an artificial sky with a rising and setting sun, moon and stars. The Scribes’ sole mission is to compose answers to letters that friends and relatives have written to victims taken to the camps, most of whom are already dead – so that the Final Solution will remain a secret, even from the psychics whom, the Nazis believe, will be contacted by the dead souls desperate for the world to know their fate.
As the inevitable end of the war and the Third Reich’s defeat draws near, a letter arrives, written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist and friend, who has been taken to Auschwitz. Heidegger’s letter, which demands a response worthy of their intellectual correspondence, sets in motion a series of events that will ultimately threaten the safety of the entire Compound – including the brave and independent Elie, her lover Lodenstein,
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一封來自存在主義哲學家馬丁･海德格寫給被抓進集中營友人的信，能否全面揭發德國納粹殲滅猶太人的滔天惡行? 當年希特勒建立第三帝國所組成的納粹組織, 不但將全世界超過六百萬名的猶太人抓進集中營加以殘害, 甚至為了預防這些猶太人及其家屬透過靈媒追尋他們的不幸遭遇, 進而告諸全世界有關納粹組織「終結猶太人」的暴行, 特別成立了一個專門代替這些猶太人回信的單位。
這個單位基地, 蓋在森林深處的煤礦坑裡。奇特的設計讓煤礦坑裡有座虛擬的寧靜鄉村。村子的道路是以玫瑰色的鵝卵石鋪成, 而人工的天空有日出、 日落、月亮和星星。
這個單位由超過 50名精通多國語言的猶太人組成, 他們的任務是假冒已被凌虐致死的猶太人回覆親朋好友的信件, 瞞騙他們已遭屠殺迫害的事實; 為此獲得的好處是: 得以免於一死。工作之餘,愛莉與葛荷德,這對勇敢的猶太情侶,正在偷偷地為抵抗軍蒐集情報。
戰爭接近尾聲,這個單位收到一封來自存在主義哲學家馬丁･海德格*寫給他驗光師朋友的信。這兩位知識分子的通信,意外地展開一連串事件,將威脅到這個單位全體工作人員的性命......。
*馬丁･海德格 (Martin Heidegger; 1989～1976)：德國哲學家, 在現象學、存在主義、解構主義、詮釋學、後現代主義、政治理論、心理學及神學有舉足輕重的影響。(Jennifer)
Awards/获奖情况：書評家一致讚賞的短篇小說和散文作家泰依莎･法蘭克
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Starred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker where multi-lingual intellectuals, spared the concentration camps, spend the war answering letters sent to concentration camp inmates who are, in all likelihood, already dead; called the Compound of Scribes, its mission is part record-keeping, part supernatural insurance plan, meant to keep the spirits of the dead from tipping off psychics to the Nazi’s Final Solution. Despite their absurd (and potentially confusing) orders, the 50-some Scribes live in relative peace under the supervision of Elie and Gerhardt, lovers secretly working for the Resistance. Then a daunting task comes down from Goebbels himself-answer a letter from genius philosopher Martin Heidegger to his friend and optometrist Asher Englehardt, a prisoner in Auschwitz-setting events in motion that will threaten the lives of everyone in the compound. Taking readers to a curiously polyglot netherworld, a population removed from the horrors of the Reich even as it deals in some of its most intimate dispatches, Frank’s vision of the Holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative that’s both explosive and ponderous. ---Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： 泰依莎･法蘭克 (Thaisa Frank)是兩本暢銷短篇小說 <<天鵝絨中沈睡>> (Sleeping in Velvet) 和 <<掩飾簡史>> (A Brief History of Camouflage) 的作者, 榮獲兩次美國筆會獎 (PEN award) 的肯定。最近他為伏爾泰的 <<憨第德, 札第格, 故事集>> 撰寫後記。他的作品被選入無數的文集,包括了跨國出版社哈波科林的讀者最愛。他目前定居於美國舊金山。
作者網站: www.thaisafrank.com
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