Marie Vieux-Chauvet的惊人的长篇小说三部曲首次以英语出版,是一个了不起的文学事件。《爱、愤怒、疯狂》由Rose-Myriam Réjouis和Val Vinokur出色地翻译,对统治海地的种族、阶级和性的斗争做出了尖锐的回应。这部重要作品在1968年首次出版时被压制,成为地下经典,最终于2005年在法国发行了授权版本。
Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti. Suppressed upon its initial publication in 1968, this major work became an underground classic and was finally released in an authorized edition in France in 2005.
In Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet offers three slices of life under an oppressive regime. Gradually building in emotional intensity, the novellas paint a shocking portrait of families and artists struggling to survive under Haiti s terrifying government restrictions that have turned its society upside down, transforming neighbors into victims, spies, and enemies.
In Love, Claire is the eldest of three sisters who occupy a single house. Her dark skin and unmarried status make her a virtual servant to the rest of the family. Consumed by an intense passion for her brother-in-law, she finds redemption in a criminal act of rebellion.
In Anger, a middle-class family is ripped apart when twenty-year-old Rose is forced to sleep with a repulsive soldier in order to prevent a government takeover of her father s land.
And in Madness, René, a young poet, finds himself trapped in a house for days without food, obsessed with the souls of the dead, dreading the invasion of local military thugs, and steeling himself for one final stand against authority.
Sympathetic, savage and truly compelling with an insightful introduction by Edwidge Danticat,Love, Anger, Madness is an extraordinary, brave and graphic evocation of a country in turmoil.
作者简介
Marie Vieux-Chauvet是占领后海地的一位开创性作家,1916年生于太子港,1973年在纽约去世。她是五部小说的作者,包括《火山之舞》、《Nègres之池》、《海地之女》和《Les Rapaces》。
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, a seminal writer of postoccupation Haiti, was born in Port-au-Prince in 1916 and died in New York in 1973. She is the author of five novels, including Dance on the Volcano, Fonds des Nègres, Fille d'Haiti, and Les Rapaces.
Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur have translated two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Solibo Magnificent and Texaco, the latter of which won the American Translators Association Galantière Prize for Best Book. Their translation of Love, Anger, Madness was supported by a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is the author of Brother, I'm Dying; Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!; The Farming of Bones; and The Dew Breaker. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters.
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