A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 03900010B42168

English Summary/英文概要： With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans,A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn’t written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called ’Walking the Wild Side of Life.’ I’ve stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since."

Perhaps the author’s own words describe this classic work best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind."

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 描写20世纪30年代的老新奥尔良法国区受压迫的妓女、走私犯和珀迪多街混混们，《走在狂野之边》一出版就满足各个年代读者想象空间的需要。正如阿尔格雷所说，这本书“并不是走了很久才写出来的。。。。。。我在南太平洋车站的另一边找到了自己该走的路，在那里流浪汉们唱着“走在生命狂野的一端”的歌曲。从那之后我似乎总是待在侧路的那一边。”

也许用作者自己的话形容这个经典之作最为贴切：“这本书探究了为何有时或迷失的人们会成为伟大的人而那些整个人生从未迷失的人却不会的原因。为何受到他人折磨的人们都是人性的自然信徒，而那些总是轻而易举获得，掠取所有却从未给予的人是人类群体中最应该受到蔑视的。”(JDM)

Awards/获奖情况："The intensity of his feeling, the accuracy of his thought, make me wonder if any other writer of our time has shown us more exactly the human basis of our democracy. Though Algren often defines his positive values by showing us what happens in their absence, his hell burns with passion for heaven."---The New York Times Book Review
“他感知的力度和思想的准确性让我不禁怀疑我们时代的其他任何作家可以更恰当地展示了我们民主的人权基础。尽管阿尔格雷经常通过向我们展示缺少它会对我们造成何种影响来定义自己的积极价值观，但他的地狱燃烧着对天堂的激情。”——《纽约时报评论》

"A Walk on the Wild Side . . . deserves to read by every Catch-22 and Cuckoo’s Nest freak just so they can find out what opened the door for [these] two novels . . . It’s not only that before Heller and Kesey there was Algren. It’s that Algren is where they came from."---Rolling Stone
“《走在狂野之边》值得每个《Catch-22》和《布谷鸟巢》爱好者读一读，这样他们就可以更好地理解那两部作品了。不仅如此，海勒和克塞之前更有阿尔格雷。有了阿尔格雷才有了他们。”——《滚石》

"Mr. Algren, boy, you are good."---Ernest Hemingway
“阿尔格雷先生，你很棒。”——海明威

About the Author/作者介绍： Nelson Algren (1909-1981) wrote of the despised urban underbelly of America before it was fashionable to do so, and still stands as one of our most defiant and enduring novelists. His novels include The Man with the Golden Arm, winner of the first National Book Award, A Walk on the Wild Side, and Never Come Morning.
纳尔逊•阿尔格雷(1909年-1981年)在对美国城市软肋的鄙视之风盛行起来之前已经对此有所贡献，他仍然是我们这个时代最具挑衅力和持久力的小说家之一。他的小说包括《金臂人》，获得第一届全国图书奖，以及《走在狂野之边》和《黎明不曾到来》。

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