THE MISSING SHADE OF BLUE
Book ID/图书代码： 07980011B49404
English Summary/英文概要： Arriving in Edinburgh from Paris to work on a translation of the philosopher David Hume, diffident Edgar Manson looks forward to an atmosphere of enlightenment and quiet calm. Drama is the last thing he expects, yet soon after his arrival, Manson comes into contact with the academic Harry Sanderson and his younger beautiful artist wife, and then Edgar’s meticulously circumscribed life is suddenly propelled into violent chaos.Survivor of a solitary childhood and an adolescent breakdown, Manson’s every instinct is to hold passion and disorder at bay; while Sanderson – overweight, anarchic, brilliant – is hurtling towards calamity, in furious rebellion against his colleagues and on the brink of a nameless mania. Drawn into Sanderson’s dangerous orbit – by his irony, intellect and fearlessness, and by the secrets that underwrite his marriage to the lovely, elusive Carrie – Manson must engage not only with the Sanderson’s hidden fears, but with his own too.
This is a compelling portrait of sexual jealousy and a profound meditation on the human capacity for happiness, and is inventive, intelligent and absolutely involving. It is also a book about language, secrets, emotional engagement. The title refers to Hume’s theory expounded in A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE which aimed to show that the mind can generate an idea without first being exposed to the relevant sensory experience. It is, as you would expect from the author of GHOSTING, extraordinary, absorbing, and it possesses a clarity of perception, and a confidence of voice.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 埃德加•曼森（Edgar Manson）此次专程从巴黎飞抵爱丁堡原本只为学术---翻译哲学大师大卫•休谟（David Hume）的著作，却不想在与学者哈里•桑德森（Harry Sanderson ）及其俏未婚妻接洽之后会有如此戏剧性的变化，更不曾想自己的生活将从此被彻底搅乱。 曼森自小生活不顺，遂养成了其循规蹈矩、不露声色的性格。而桑德森恰恰相反，肥头大耳，放荡不羁，人是聪明的，但和同事的相处极为不妥，简直引火自焚，自食恶果也是咎由自取，偏又将曼森搅和进去，危机四伏。
这是一个描写为爱争风吃醋，却又教人反思幸福真谛的故事，睿智、独创且非常吸引人，同时还暗藏了语言、秘密以及情感纠葛。本书非同一般，洞察清晰，掷地有声。文章标题源自休谟的一个理论，即在你亲身经历某一件事情之前，你的头脑可能早已有过这类想法。(XJJ)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 这是作者詹妮•厄达尔（JENNIE ERDAL）首次用真名出版的小说，之前几部都是用老板的名义发表的。如Siri Hustvedt，她剖析了自我本质，并且还玩了把文字游戏。我得承认我没读过姆瑞尔•巴伯莉（Muriel Barbery）的作品，但真有人拿他俩相提并论。这让我想起了伊莉莎白的作品细节，但其对于人物的刻画还是很有说服力的，至今印象深刻。 星期日泰晤士报（The Sunday Times）：“美丽的忧愁。”同时被芝加哥论坛报（Chicago Tribune）大加赞赏，在英国卫报上连载，所获殊荣不一一列举
This is Erdal’s debut novel in her own name (though she wrote novels under the name of Naim Attallah, her former employer, and publisher of Quartet). Like Siri Hustvedt, she delves deep into the nature of self, a kind of off-centred-ness, and has an interest in the workings of language. I have to confess that I haven’t read Muriel Barbery’s THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, but Richard likens Erdal’s novel to that. It reminded me personally of Elizabeth Winthrop’s work in that nothing very much happens, yet the book is completely absorbing in its utterly convincing study of Sanderson’s character. A bit Chekhovian, in that sense, now I come to think of it. GHOSTING (sad, funny and beautifully written – The Sunday Times; An astonishing story – Chicago Tribune)was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, serialised in The Guardian, extracted in Granta, and shortlisted for two awards.
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