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The Pole

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內容簡介 ✰關於頑強愛情和不可預測的人心探索，是一本讓人忍不住讀下去的小說！ ✰諾貝爾獎得主、《屈辱》作者柯慈J. M. Coetzee新書！ 主角Wittold Walccyzkiecz是一位精力充沛、有醒目白髮的波蘭鋼琴家，在巴塞隆納音樂會相遇了時尚的藝術贊助人Beatriz，並愛上了他。 儘管Beatriz已婚且對Wittold不感興趣，但他很快就發現Wittold的積極追求和愛慕，在Wittold造訪他丈夫在馬略卡島的避暑別墅時，兩人看似不可能的關係有了意外的發展！ 他們之間的感情糾葛愈演愈烈——難道是Beatriz透過控制自己的情緒來限制他們的熱情嗎？還是Wittold試圖將他的愛情、夢想帶入生活？ 《The Pole》讓人想起愛爾蘭作家喬伊斯的《往生者》，是一部令人難忘的作品，喚起了Coetzee最優秀小說的典型特徵，「從盲目的愛到同情心，彷彿無窮無盡。」（El País）。A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability of human relationships―from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Disgrace.Exacting yet maddeningly unpredictable, J. M. Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, “extravagantly white-haired” Polish pianist who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into the world of the journeyman performer. As he sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband’s summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though, it seems, only on her terms. The power struggle between them intensifies―Is it Beatriz who limits their passion by controlling her emotions? Or is it Wittold, trying to force into life his dream of love? Evocative of Joyce’s “The Dead,” The Pole is a haunting work, evoking the “inexhaustible palette of sensations, from blind love to compassion” (El País) typical of Coetzee’s finest novels.

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作者介紹 J. M. CoetzeeBorn in Cape Town, South Africa, J. M. Coetzee is the author of twenty books, including Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Award; The Life and Times of Michael K, for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983; Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life, a memoir; and several essay collections. With Disgrace, Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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最佳賣點 : A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability of human relationships