AGRIGENTO
Book ID/图书代码： 08008012B56206
English Summary/英文概要： What might not happen when a series of people, for whom ordinary life is not enough, meet and join their lives in modern-day Agrigento? A town in southern Sicily which not only has a very ancient history, but also a particular bearing on everything that constitutes modern-day Sicilian culture.
These people, the main characters in the novel, are an eccentric elderly doctor, Pausanias Anchite, who immerses himself in the story of ancient Agragas, following in the footsteps of Empedocles, the city’s ancient philosopher; his daughter Isabella, a painter looking for redemption, not through art, but in an unlooked for personal fate; an outlaw, Gaetano, who is in hiding and ponders his life, while shooting down popular myths concerning organized crime; a Greek, Linos, who chooses to run away from Greece and return to his first love, hoping to save himself from boredom and from his homeland’s collapse, and an unfrocked Catholic priest, who together with his brother remembers people and events from another, unknown Sicily.
The story develops and moves to a climax on multiple levels, initially following the parallel lives of its subjects, which unfold step by step in the opening chapters. Doctor Anchite recalls how he began to immerse himself in the past, not only to forget his wife Bianca’s premature death, but also to get to know himself, and to wrest a little more out of life, sensing that his time is running out. With this aim, feeling that death is approaching, he writes a chronicle of ancient Akragas, which revolves around the life and ideas of the ancient philosopher Empedocles, and refers also to Luigi Pirandello, Agrigento’s other, more recent hero.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当不甘于平凡生活的一群人在现代阿格里真托相遇相知，还有什么是不可能发生的呢？阿格里真托，西西里岛南部的一座小镇，历史悠久，却又同时洋溢着西西里当代风情。 书中有着一群性格迥异的人物形象：性格古怪的老医生--波西尼亚斯•安西特，他总是自我沉浸在古阿格拉加斯的文化之中，追随着先贤恩培多克勒的足迹；她的女儿伊莎贝拉--一名寻求救赎的画家，然而她的救赎途径不是艺术，而是期待着命运带给她的意外惊喜；亡命之徒加埃塔诺一边四处逃亡一边思索人生，并时而反驳一些有关于罪行的神话传说；希腊人李纳斯，选择了逃离希腊并重新投入初恋的怀抱，幻想着能够拯救自己虚无空洞的人生，并脱离日益败落的希腊；而另一名被免去了圣职的天主教牧师则是和他的兄弟一同缅怀着人们所不知道的另一段段西西里往事。
故事从不同角度拉开帷幕，层层推向高潮，而主人公们相似的命运随着第一章节的展开也一步步走向了各自新的发展。从安西特医生的回忆中，我们可以了解他活在过去的原因，不仅仅是为了遗忘妻子比亚卡的早逝，更是因为他深深地感到生命流逝，而人需要更深入了解自我，以便更好的与命运奋力一搏。然而壮志未酬，他便已深切地感受到死亡的逼近，于是他写下了一篇古阿格拉加斯年志，这部作品紧紧围绕古哲学家恩培多克勒的生平与思想展开，同时涉及了包括路伊吉•皮兰德娄等在内的众多阿格里真托近代英雄形象。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：版权已售意大利，阿尔巴尼亚，保加利亚，克罗地亚，捷克共和国，马其顿。 2011年荣获欧洲文学奖。WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2011
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About the Author/作者介绍： Kostas Hatziantoniou was born in 1965 in Rhodes, where he also grew up. He studied political sciences and public administration at the Law School (University of Athens), and made his first appearance in literature in 1990, as a publisher of the literary magazine Remvie. Since then, he has collaborated with all of Greece’s notable literary magazines, as well as with encyclopaedic publications, writing literature, critical essays and historical articles. He has received awards from the Greek PEN Club, the Company of Christian Letters, and the P. Foteas prize for essays. In 2009, he was selected as a committee member of the National Literature Awards. His narrative works during the last decade include the The Book of Black Bile (Parousia Publications, 2001) and the novel Agrigento (Ideogramma Publications, 2009).
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