《伐木》简介:

○ 托马斯·伯恩哈德是20世纪最伟大的德语作家之一,厄普代克、卡尔维诺、桑塔格、帕慕克、耶利内克推崇的文学大师。

○ 以批判的方式关注人生和社会现实,揭示出不同于卡夫卡的荒诞与悖谬。

○ 我的生活,我的存在,都是在演戏,总是在表演给人看,从来不是我的真实生活。

20世纪80年代,奥地利维也纳,奥尔斯贝格尔夫妇在家举办“艺术家晚宴”。

晚上11点半,所谓的“艺术家晚宴”还没有开始,所有人都在等待晚宴贵宾——那位著名的城堡剧院演员——的到来。我坐在带头靠的沙发椅上,一边等待一边观察晚宴现场的人们,回想几十年来接近又疏离艺术世界的经历,回想艺术人的种种境遇,回想今天白天乔安娜的葬礼。

在我的眼中,他们早在几十年前,在艺术上,或者说在精神方面,甚至可以说整个心灵都垮掉了。音乐室所有的人,听到我说艺术世界、艺术精神这些词语,好像我在说,如奥尔斯贝格尔夫妇那样,关于“艺术家晚宴”,他们只注意我说的这些词语的声响,至于这些词语在我说它们时对我具有何等意义,他们则无从理解。

《伐木》摘录:

We adapt ourselves to the mentality and temperament of a person like Jeannie, and for a time we take in only what this person's mentality and temperament have to offer us, and when we think we've taken in enough--when we've had enough – we simply sever the connection, just as I severed my connection with Jeannie. We spend years sucking all we can out of someone, and then, having almost sucked them dry, we suddenly say that we ourselves are being sucked dry. And for the rest of our lives we have to live with the knowledge of our own basements, I now reflected. We respect somebody – we respect them for years – and then suddenly come to hate them, without first knowing why. And we find it quite intolerable that this person, whom for so long we respected and perhaps even loved, who as it we...

《伐木》目录:

特立独行的伯恩哈德——伯恩哈德作品集总序
伐木——一场情感波澜
残酷的灵魂拷问——代译后记
托马斯·伯恩哈德生平及创作
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