THE INTUITIONIST: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 12844010B43359
English Summary/英文概要： As one of the Intuitionists, Lila Mae Watson, an elevator inspector, is able to detect defects purely by tuning into the machinery. The opposition, the Empiricists, practise routine physical inspection. When a new elevator on Lila’s rounds goes into freefall, her solitary existence is shattered.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这座大都会城市的电梯检验部门正面临一场危机，而该部门历史上首位黑人女性电梯检验员莉拉·梅·沃森则处于这场危机的核心位置。
该部门内部存在两个对立派系：实证主义者依赖实验与测量手段；直觉主义者则只需进入电梯轿厢就能凭直觉发现任何缺陷。莉拉·梅便是其中一位直觉主义者，其判断准确率居部门之首。然而在她负责期间，一旦电梯发生自由坠落事故，混乱便随之爆发。正值选举年，那些老派的实证主义者最想做的就是将责任归咎于这位直觉主义者。
与此同时，直觉主义学派创始人詹姆斯·富尔顿失传笔记本中的惊人片段逐渐曝光，其中详细记载了他关于“黑箱”的研究——这种完美的电梯系统本可彻底重塑现代城市格局。当莉拉·梅潜入地下调查坠机事件时，她不仅卷入了寻找失踪笔记本的行动，更揭开了一个将永远改变她人生的秘密。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Lila Mae is the anti-heroine of this startling debut by American journalist Colson Whitehead. The first coloured elevator inspector in the city, she is a pupil of the Intuitionist school of thought and is able to tell what is wrong with an elevator through intuitive communication with the machinery. Most of her fellow workers however belong to the Empiricist camp, and prefer to carry out routine conventional inspections. The simmering animosity between the two factions comes to the boil when an elevator that Lila Mae has inspected unexpectedly crashes. Solitary and taciturn Lila Mae suspects a conspiracy, and when rumours start circulating of a lost black box that contains the blueprint of the perfect elevator devised by the founder of Intuitionism and Lila Mae’s hero, the late James Fulton, her conviction in the philosophical beliefs of her dead mentor compels her to unearth the truth. The surreality of the plot beguiles the seriousness with which Whitehead treats his underlying themes of racial and gender tension, and the use of the elevator works as a brilliant abstract metaphor for the organisation of society within a metropolis. Whitehead litters his deftly honed prose with pithy observations on everything from the construction of individual identity to philosophical absurdities on the nature of "elevatorness". It’s an absolute joy to read, and one of the most original novels to be published in 1998.---F.F. Garden
About the Author/作者介绍： Colson Whitehead was born in New York City. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the QPB New Voices Award and was an Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award finalist. His second novel, John Henry Days, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. Whitehead lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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