THE MAN WHO WALKED AWAY
Book ID/图书代码： 06840013B63611
English Summary/英文概要： In a trance-like state, Albert walks—from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia—all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he’s left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images.Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the hospital of St. André in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Walked Away imagines Albert’s wanderings and the anguish that caused him to seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain.
In a time when mental health diagnosis is still as much art as science, Maud Casey takes us back to its tentative beginnings and offers us an intimate relationship between one doctor and his patient as, together, they attempt to reassemble a lost life. Through Albert she gives us a portrait of a man untethered from place and time who, in spite of himself, kept setting out, again and again, in search of wonder and astonishment.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿尔伯特恍恍惚惚地走着，从波尔多到普瓦捷，从肖蒙到梅肯，甚至更远的地方，土耳其，奥地利，俄罗斯等，他在欧洲各地行走着。当他在行走的时候，他被称为一个无业游民，一个疯子。他被赶出城镇和村庄，被人嘲笑，受到监禁。当他的恍惚行走之旅结束后，他不知道自己在那，也不知道自己是怎么到这来的。他脑海中只有些稍纵即逝的画面。
《行走的男子》是以阿尔伯特.达拉斯的故事为蓝本创作的。他是19世纪波尔多圣安德烈医院的一民精神病患者。小说中描绘了阿尔伯特流浪的经历，使他精神失常的痛苦过往，他所遭受的一切磨难等。
在当时，精神健康诊断仍不发达，阿尔伯特寻求一位医生的帮助，他们之间建立了亲密的医患关系，并一起努力想要重组生活。作者为我们塑造的是一个不断出发，寻求答案，不受到时间地点束缚，不断行走的男子形象。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：Winner of the St. Francis Literary Prize. This was a $50,000 prize for which she competed against Paul Beatty, Stuart Dybek, David Gilbert, Marlon James, and Rene Steinke. -- As of Oct. 5, 2015
Kirkus Reviews gave the novel a starred review, too, and listed it in their "Most Overlooked Books" and "9 Novels Based on Extraordinary True Stories" lists!
The Washingtonian named The Man Who Walked Away a "Top Ten Book for March"!
The Man Who Walked Away was named a Publishers Weekly Book of the Week and received a starred review!
“Lyrical in its style and fascinating in its psychology, Casey’s narrative provokes a host of intriguing questions beyond those the Doctor raises, and Casey is wise enough as an author not to provide easy answers.” --Kirkus, starred review
“Haunting...unconventional and engaging...Though her plot is solidly rooted in the history of medicine...Casey’s true focus is human rather than clinical. Our need for stories, our relationship with time, the inevitability of loss, and our startling endurance all resonate through her beautifully crafted interweaving of image and observation, fairy tale and fact.” --Publishers Weekly, starred review
“If I were blurbing Maud Casey’s The Man Who Walked Away, I’d be hard pressed to avoid labeling it ‘luminous’ and ‘liminal,’ and maybe even ‘lyrical’ and ‘plangent.’ Casey is a consummate stylist, and her new book is so richly engaged with language, so profligate with glorious sentences, that at times the prose ascends to the level of poetry. This is a writer who pays a deep, sensual attention to the world...Poignant and touching.” --The New York Times Book Review
“Casey’s book is a vivid chronicle of the time, bringing alive the mysteries and joys of a fledgling science...Shucking the theme of contemporary angst, Casey evokes — with no shortage of verve and gusto — the romance of 19th-century Europe...The Man Who Walked Away is as compelling a portrait as you will find of the co-dependence between psychiatrist and patient.” --The Washington Post
“Intelligent, superb...Casey’s spectacular third novel...is a meditation on the elusive nature of time and life, the way they approach and leave us...Casey’s capable hands have elevated these ideas into a beautiful, poignant story worth considering and reconsidering...Her prose leaves rich morsels on almost every page, satisfying in both beauty and complexity of thought...Casey’s characters find companionship and anchors in one another, and we are fortunate to find such company in this treasure of a book.” --Washington Independent Review of Books
“If you’re listening closely enough, you might just hear [Casey] pull off a feat as graceful as it is clever...Casey handles the story expertly.” --National Public Radio
“Maud Casey’s The Man Who Walked Away is a haunting, deeply empathetic, and rigorously intelligent novel. It is also seamless marvel of construction and language. The Man Who Walked Away cast a spell from which I never wished to wake.” --Alice Sebold, internationally bestselling author of The Lovely Bones
“Pay attention, this lovely novel urges. As Maud Casey spins this mysteriously urgent tale of patient and doctor entwining, her quicksilver prose yields one astonishing image after another: each moment fleetingly beautiful, each character here—here!—and nowhere else. As this novel is like nothing else. Reading it is a singularly moving experience.” --Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever and Archangel
“The Man Who Walked Away is a book of enchantments of an extremely intelligent kind. Dreamlike and sharply real, the novel unfolds in a nineteenth-century asylum where all the inmates have their own poetry of delusion, fear turned to metaphor. Wildly original fiction, with a particular melancholy magic.” --Joan Silber, bestselling author of Ideas of Heaven and The Size of the World
About the Author/作者介绍： 莫德•凯西的小说《未来的形状》获“纽约时报著名图书”殊荣，她的作品还有《家谱》以及作品集《猛烈》。她曾获卡尔维诺奖，并已获得瓦尔帕莱索基金会，霍索恩登国际作家协会奖学金。她住在华盛顿特区，并任教于美国马里兰大学。Maud Casey is the author of The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable, and Genealogy, and a collection of stories, Drastic. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and has received fellowships from the Fundación Valparaiso, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, Chateau de Lavigny, and the Passa Porta residency at Villa Hellebosch. She lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches at the University of Maryland and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson.
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