THE MADMAN OF FREEDOM SQUARE
Book ID/图书代码： 03240312B54529
English Summary/英文概要： From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam... Blasim’s stories present an uncompromising view of the West’s relationship with Iraq, spanning over twenty years and taking in everything from the Iran-Iraq War through to the Occupation, as well as offering a haunting critique of the post-war refugee experience.
Blending allegory with historical realism, and subverting readers’ expectations in an unflinching comedy of the macabre, these stories manage to be both phantasmagoric and shockingly real, light in touch yet steeped in personal nightmare. For all their despair and darkness, though, what lingers more than the haunting images of war, or the insanity of those who would benefit from it, is the spirit of defiance, the indefatigable courage of those few characters keeping faith with what remains of human intelligence.
Together these stories represent the first major literary work about the war from an Iraqi perspective.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 巴格达的人质视频散播，在塞尔维亚丛林进行的人口贩卖，在萨达姆执政期间的制度偏执化，一个在阿姆斯特丹的流亡之人企图迎接新的生活却噩梦连连......Blasim的故事展现了西方与伊拉克之间不肯妥协的态度，书中的故事时间跨越20年，并且收录了从伊拉克战争到侵略占领的所有事件，同时也对战后难民的生活发表了令人印象深刻的批判。
此书融合了故事寓言以及历史事实，以幽默的讽刺口吻颠覆了读者们原有的想法，这些故事似乎亦真亦假，如梦如幻，但却又令人感到毛骨悚然的真实。书中有失望也有黑暗的部分，但是是什么能比战争的梦魇留存得更久呢？是反抗的精神！是少数人所拥有的不屈不挠的勇气可以支撑人们怀有信念地生活。
这些故事以一个伊拉克人的第一视角为我们呈现。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况："入选2010年外语独立小说奖。"
“也许是阿拉伯现今最好的作家。”——《卫报》，2010年6月12日
“书中描绘了超现实主义，人们内心的状态，对伊斯兰极端主义和美国入侵的讽刺评论。这是部优秀的小说”——《地铁报》，2009年10月22日
“Blasim将所有的细节都描绘得有哥特式的恐怖风格，他作品的超现实主义风格有果戈理的感觉。”——《独立报》2010年10月6日
“这部小说清晰而令人震惊，所呈现的事实是及其令人毛骨悚然的，这部处女作向我们讲述了伊拉克战争的所有细节。”——《卫报》
新闻的功能使得人们将注意力放到阿富汗身上，让人们知道伊拉克人正在被放任着自生自灭。Blasim的作品使我们了解到在伊拉克什么事都有可能发生。发生在伊拉克的事实需要由Blasim这样的人讲出来。——《智能生活》2009年11月
About the Author/作者介绍： Hassan Blasim是一个诗人，电影制作人和短篇故事作家。他于1973年生于巴格达，在城市的电影学院学习，在此期间，他的两部电影获得了奥斯卡的最佳工作奖。1998年，他离开巴格达前往伊拉克库尔德斯坦，在那里他继续制作电影，其中包括长篇戏剧《破损的照相机》，他同时也担忧着远在巴格达的在萨达姆独裁统治下的家人。2004年，他移居芬兰，开始制作数不清的微电影，并为芬兰电视台制作纪录片。他的故事也曾被www.iraqstory.com网站播放，Blasim有关电影的散文集也被拍摄成电影。他的第一部英文短篇小说《中东的城市故事》被发表在《麦地那》上。这是他第一本出版的书。
Jonathan Wright在1970年间在牛津大学学习阿拉伯语，在过往居住在阿拉伯的30年中，有18年时间与路透社的记者一同工作。他的第一部重大文学翻译作品是Khaled el-Khamissi的《出租车》，于2008年被辉耀文学出版。
Hassan Blasim is a poet, filmmaker and short story writer. Born in Baghdad in 1973, he studied at the city’s Academy of Cinematic Arts, where two of his films 慓ardenia� (screenplay & director) and 慦hite Clay� (screenplay) won the Academy’s Festival Award for Best Work in their respective years. In 1998 he left Baghdad for Sulaymaniya (Iraqi Kurdistan), where he continued to make films, including the feature-length drama Wounded Camera, under the pseudonym Ouazad Osman, fearing for his family back in Baghdad under the Hussein dictatorship. In 2004, he moved to Finland, where he has since made numerous short films and documentaries for Finnish television. His stories have previously been published on www.iraqstory.com and his essays on cinema have featured in Cinema Booklets (Emirates Cultural Foundation). His first short story in English appeared in Madinah: City Stories from the Middle East (Comma 2008). This is his first book.
Jonathan Wright studied Arabic at Oxford University in the 1970s and has spent 18 of the past 30 years in the Arab world, mostly as a journalist with the international news agency Reuters. His first major literary translation was of Khaled el-Khamissi’s best-selling book Taxi, published in English by Aflame Books in 2008.
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