CENTRAL PARK WEST TRILOGY: THE NIHILESTHETE, PENTHOUSE F, CHARLIE P
Book ID/图书代码： 14934114B72823
English Summary/英文概要： Central Park West Trilogy is destined to become a cult classic, pressed into the hands of friends with a promise, “You’ve never read anything like this before.”
To read Richard Kalich is to be plunged into an uncompromising world, to be exposed to dark deeds and strange thoughts, to be challenged.
The novels collected here tug at our concepts of civility, identity, truth and art. They are postmodern fables; dark, shocking, funny, astute, and compulsively readable.
They share a ferocious energy and break down standard notions of plot and character to form a body of work that is distinctive.
They are unsettling books, relentless in their demands on the reader – who must pay attention, question the narrator, and stare unflinching at the nightmarish visions unfolding before him or her. The works are written to provoke; the reader may want to recoil and turn away, and yet find themselves caught up in the galloping pace of the plot.
But there is also room for laughter, to find humour in the outlandish adventures of Charlie P in particular. Unsurprisingly, the humour is often a perverse, provocative kind. Kalich doesn’t want his readers getting too comfortable. As he would surely say, what is the value of a book that doesn’t question cosy notions of what it is to be human, to be civilised, to be cultured?
Instead of answers, we are given shattered fragments, from which we must try to piece together the whole. Kalich experiments with narrative form and characters, pulling us into a murky place where we are left to wonder: what is the difference between Kalich the author, Kalich the character and Kalich the man? Can we ever know what is going on inside the head of another human being?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《中央公园西部三部曲》注定将成为一部令人狂热不已的经典之作，你将将它按压进朋友的手中，郑重承诺：“你一定从未阅读过这样的书籍”。
阅读理查德•卡里池就犹如投身于一个永不妥协的世界，让自己暴露在黑暗的事件和奇怪的想法中，接受挑战。
本书中收集的小说故事撼动了我们对于文明、自我、真理以及艺术的概念。它们是一篇篇后现代童话；黑暗、惊人、妙趣、狡黠，同时令人欲罢不能地想要继续阅读下去。
这些故事都具有着极度强大的能量以及的破碎的情节和人物概念，从而形成这一独一无二的精彩之作。
他们是一系列令人不安的书籍，不屈不挠地骚扰着读者---作为读者，你必须更加谨慎注意，质疑叙述者，毫无畏惧地直视噩梦，看着梦中的景象在眼前一点一滴的展开与呈现。这些故事是为了激励而被创作出来的；身为读者的你或许想要退缩或许想要扭开头去，然而却总能在情节即将峰回路转的时刻再次发现自己沉迷其中。
但尽管如此，书中还是充满着欢笑，尤其是在查理•P的奇异之旅中，你将发现种种幽默。毫不意外的是，书中的幽默总是略带些变态与挑衅的那种。卡里池并不想让他的读者们在这一过程中太过于舒适。正如他总是信誓旦旦的宣称：如果一本书不会质疑像是“何为人性、如何才能变得有文化、有教养”这样的令人舒适到自然而然的观念，那么其价值又究竟何在？
我们并未获得任何的答案，相反的我们获得的是许许多多的碎片，从中我们必须努力拼凑出一个完整的答案。卡里池对叙述形式和人物角色进行了试验，将我们推入了一个阴暗浑浊的地方，在那里我们不由得思索：卡里池与作者之间究竟有何区别，作为书中人物的卡里池与作为男人的卡里池之间究竟有何不同？我们是否能了解到另一个人的脑海里究竟想着什么？（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•卡里池从小在纽约出生长大，现居纽约西北部地区。1987年，他的首部小说The “Nihilesthete”问世，该部小说作品为其赢得了国际上的广泛认可。因此他继续从事小说创作，并写下了其身处时代中的数部最具原创性的小说作品：“The Zoo”,“ Charlie P”, 以及“ Penthouse F”。人们将查理与卡夫卡、奥斯特、贝克特巴塔耶、加缪及贡布洛威茨等大家进行比较。他曾入围国家图书奖决赛，两次获得普利策奖提名，且其作品已被译为多种语言。
理查德•卡利池获得诸多好评：
“理查德•卡利池是一名成功的小说家，他不仅成功地持续为读者们创造出错综复杂的小说作品，并且这些作品并没有进行严格意义上的分类，从而逃脱了当下所谓的作者本人意图的歪曲影响。”---克里斯托弗•雷斯，《电子书评》
“他所追寻的是完全背离其身处的美国文化环境，却又同时对于美国梦的放弃不情不愿这一主题背后的真正涵义。”---布莱恩•依凡森
’卡利池代表了当代小说的巅峰。他明明拥有许多的机会---但又为何他没有如此行为呢？---一名活着的经典之作家。"----胡里根文学杂志，莫斯科
“一名极其重要的美国作家。”---查林罗马诺，《费城问询报》
Richard Kalich was born, grew up and lives in New York, on the Upper West side. In 1987, he published his first novel, The Nihilesthete, which won him international acclaim. He went on to write some of the most original American fiction in a generation: The Zoo, Charlie P, and Penthouse F. Kalich has been compared to Kafka, Auster, Beckett, Bataille, Camus and Gombrowicz. He has been finalist of the National Book Award, nominated twice for a Pulitzer, and his works have been translated into several languages.
Praise for Richard Kalich:
“Richard Kalich is a successful novelist, one who has succeeded in consistently producing perplexing fictions that fail to categorize themselves and escape the warping influence of authorial intent.” — Christopher Leise, Electronic Book Review
“He’s after what it means to be profoundly out of step with one’s culture yet still unwilling to let go of the American dream.” — Brian Evenson
“Kalich represents the best in contemporary fiction. He has every chance to become – why not? – a living classical author.” — Hooligan Literary Magazine, Moscow
“A major American writer.” — Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer
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