深入黑暗:探讨杀人犯电影中的心理与犯罪动机

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  一转眼,盛夏已经到来,气温逐渐攀升,即将迎来暑假的你,是否还在继续着自己的阅读计划呢?

  今天小U就带大家来盘点一下,BBC Culture推荐的2018年不可错过的20本书~

  01

  White Houses

  《白宫》

  

  Amy Bloom

  艾米·布鲁姆

The book reveals the real-life relationships between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, the former Associated Press reporter who secretly lived down the hall from Eleanor when she was the First Lady to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  本书揭示了白宫第一夫人埃莉诺·罗斯福和前美联社记者洛琳娜·希科克之间的真实关系。

  With her heart heavy over FDR's passing, and already bruised from the death of her baby and brotheryears earlier, Lorena turns to the one who knows her best, the only person who can calm and comfort her.

  由于多年前孩子的夭折、兄弟的亡故,埃莉诺的心早已伤痕累累。总统罗斯福去世后,洛琳娜成了唯一能够理解她、安慰她以及给她力量的人。

  Their relationship had been a source of whispers, gossip and debate for decades, but there was no disputing their bond. In Bloom's distinctive first-person voice,a tale of lovewas presented to the readers — a kind of love so deep that it transcends gender roles and social acceptance.

  两人的关系数十年以来都是人们茶余饭后的谈资,从未淡出过人们的流言蜚语以及争辩猜测。但对于二人的亲密,人们从未有过质疑。作者通过第一人称的叙述,将一部关于爱的故事——爱之深沉超越了性别以及社会对其的接纳,展现给读者。

深入黑暗:探讨杀人犯电影中的心理与犯罪动机

  

艾米·布鲁姆引人深思且温柔的文笔像是有种魔力。在这部历史题材的小说中,布鲁姆刻画了埃莉诺·罗斯福和记者洛雷纳·希科克之间的风流韵事。她的文字给你带来的温暖像是阳光洒在沙滩上,让人忍不住一个章节又一个章节地翻下去。独特的洛琳娜第一人称视角、不同时间地点人物性格的描写带给你的想象以及字里行间的幽默和智慧保证令你一拿起这本书便放不下。

  

  02

  Feel Free

  《感到自由》

  

  Zadie Smith

  扎迪·史密斯

  35 essays in her new collection were written in the US and UK. The new collection poses questions we immediately recognize: our failure to address global warming, the matter of social network, and the definition of the term “soul”and so on.

  在《无拘无束》这本散文集中,史密斯的35篇文章都是在美国和英国写的。这本集子中,不少文章都提出了当下社会上大家都认识到的问题,比如应对全球变暖问题的失败、社交网络问题以及对于灵魂的定义等等。

  She crafted dozens of essays positioned at the intersection of “uncertain elements: language, the world, the self.” She opens with a piece about taking her daughter to visit her mother and discovering her treasured Willesden Green bookshop is endangered.

  她的写作方式汇集了三个不稳定的因素:语言、世界、自我。她开篇写到带女儿去看自己的母亲,途中发现自己深爱的Willesden Green书店即将关张。

  

  Feel Free这本散文集给我们展现了当前社会中文化和政治等方面的重大事件以及值得深思的问题。扎迪·史密斯除了出众的写作能力,还是个敢言善论的评论家、流行文化的关注者、针砭时弊的通讯作者,这三点在这本散文集中均有体现。

  

  03

  Happiness

  《幸福》

  

  Aminatta Forna

  阿米娜塔·福纳

  In London, a fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide — Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave, bringing disparate lives together.

  故事发生在伦敦,一只狐狸突然穿过滑铁卢桥。两个行人的注意力被它吸引走的同时,撞到了彼此。女主角珍是一位野生生物学家,正在研究生活城市中的狐狸的习性;而男主角阿提拉是一位加纳的心理学医生,正在伦敦参加创伤后应激障碍的专题演讲。因为这个意外,两个本不相干的人发生了一系列联系。

  In this delicate tale of loveand loss, of crueltyand kindness.Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness.

  这篇故事有关爱和失去,残酷与善良,作者福纳呼吁我们在生活中多多思考自己与他人以及其他生命联系和幸福的真实内涵。

  一篇引人深思的故事,创伤是否代表我们已经受到伤害,还是我们只是在改变?我们的生活是否只有自己,和他人以及其他生命的联系又会将我们带去何方?这本书是一场关于幸福意义的探索。

  04

  See What Can Be Done:

  Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

  《我们能做什么:文章、批判和评论》

  

  Lorrie Moore

  洛丽·摩尔

  The book is a collection of 60 lucid and erudite cultural essays by the award-winning fiction writer, which is a treasure to the world. She makes commentson many writers in this book, such as John Cheever, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood and so on.

  这本书收录了美国短篇小说家洛丽·摩尔的60篇易懂且博学的文化散文,可以说是送给世界的珍宝了。这本书中记录了她对历史上许多文学大佬的评价,比如约翰·契弗、爱丽丝·芒罗、玛格丽特·阿特伍德等等。

  

  在小说和文学届多次获奖的洛丽·摩尔以其作品内容广度、情感深度和黑色幽默及语言力量深受大家的喜爱。在这本See What Can Be Done中,字里行间处处闪耀着她标志性的黑色幽默和尖锐。喜爱摩尔的筒子们,这本新书将于4月3日上线,mark下日子吧!

  05

  Florida

  《佛罗里达》

  

  Lauren Groff

  劳伦·格勒夫

  The stories in this collection offer a sensual, ambivalent portrait of Florida. The stories span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida – its landscape, climate, history and state of mind — becomes their gravitational center. The greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotionaland psychological nature.

  这本新故事集描写刻画了一个感性又矛盾的佛罗里达。这些故事描绘了一个又一个角色、一个又一个城镇在数十年甚至上百年的变化。但是佛罗里达是这本书的中心。其中最扣人心弦的还属情感与人性。

  佛罗里达是个能引起很多人强烈感情的州,对作者格勒夫也是一样。她的这本短篇小说集就将聚焦在这片她称之为家的土地上。

  06

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

《美人鱼的慷慨》

  

  Denis Johnson

  丹尼斯·约翰逊

  The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, who just passed away. The title story follows a downwardly mobile ad man from New York to San Diego, where his perspective changes. And in an equally unpredictable tale, an injured young writer is given a knee exam after ingesting LSD.

深入黑暗:探讨杀人犯电影中的心理与犯罪动机

  这本书是作者丹尼斯·约翰逊的新小说集,同时也是遗作。标题故事讲述了一个境遇每况愈下的男人从纽约到圣地亚哥路途中观念思想的转变。以及一位受伤的年轻作家在服下“麻醉剂”后进行膝盖测试的难以预料的故事。

  美国国家图书奖得主,小说家丹尼斯约翰逊于2017年5月去世,这部The Largesse of the Sea Maiden是他的遗作。书中包含5个非常生动有趣的短篇。距离他的上一本短篇故事集《耶稣之子》已有整整25年,Johnson的终曲之作,是献给世界的最后一份礼物。

  07

  An American Marriage

  《一段美国婚姻》

  

  Tayari Jones

  塔亚莉·琼斯

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together, but found his life had also been changed.

  男女主人公是美国梦的代表,男主角是一个年轻的总裁,女主角是一位艺术家。当他们结婚准备一起生活的时候,男主角被一个莫须有的罪名判处12年监禁。五年后男主角被提前释放,他回到亚特兰大准备继续他的生活,却发现生活已经完全被颠覆。

  琼斯在这部令人心碎的新作中讲述了一对年轻黑人夫妇的故事,这对夫妻意气风发,雄心勃勃,但是丈夫却因没有犯过的罪被逮捕入狱,被判12年监禁,此后夫妻二人的生活彻底脱轨。当正义不复存在,爱要如何维持?这是这本新书细致入微讨论的问题。

  08

  The Incendiaries

  《纵火犯》

  

  R.O. Kwon

  Three undergraduates, Phoebe, Will and John Leal meet at Noxhurst College. Phoebe is a once aspiring piano virtuoso. Will is a transfer student from a religious college in California. John Leal has returned to Noxhurst after living in Yangi, a Chinese city next to North Korea.

  三个本科生福伯(Phoebe)、威尔(Will)和约翰·莱亚尔(John Leal)相遇于诺克斯赫斯特大学(Noxhurst College)。福伯曾是一个有理想的钢琴演奏家。威尔是加州一所宗教学院的转学生。约翰·莱亚尔曾经居住在毗邻朝鲜的中国城市扬吉,已经返回诺克斯赫斯特。

  They have their own stories and experiences. As the three classmates gather for parties, and drinks, Will is drawn to Phoebe, but John Leal is pulling her away, toward something sinister.

  他们各自有各自的故事和过往的经历。三个同学在一起聚会潇洒的过程中慢慢了解彼此。威尔逐渐被菲比吸引,而约翰·莱亚尔则将他拉向险恶。

  友谊、爱情、暴力、狂热、宗教充斥着这部由Kwon精心创作的第一部小说,读到最后这本书必定带给你深入的思考。

  09

  No Immediate Danger

  《没有迫在眉睫的危险》

  

  William Vollmann

  威廉姆·沃尔曼

  The book is an important primer on global warming and reportage about the effects of nuclear power in Japan, incorporating his multiple visits after the tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

  沃尔曼的这本新书是有关全球变暖环境问题的初级读物,报道了作者多次在海啸和核能泄露后到日本的实地访问中所得到的日本核能对人类的影响。

  To tell his tale, he “hiked up strip-mined mountains, sniffed crude oil, and occasionally tanned his face with gamma rays.”

  为了编写这本书,他“爬上了开采山,闻了原油的气味,偶尔还会被伽马射线晒黑。”

  The book raises complicated questions about the influence of the power consumptionand the environmental problemto us now and in the future.

  这本书提出了许多关于能源消耗和环境问题给我们当前以及将来带来的影响。

  这本书的标题“没有迫在眉睫的危险”是日本当局在福岛核泄漏后使用的官方语句。书中提出了对核泄漏以及其他环境问题的思考,你又是怎么看的呢?

  10

  Grist Mill Road

  《磨坊路》

  

  Christopher Yates

  克里斯托弗·耶茨

  Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plottedRashomon-styletale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. Three friends―Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah―are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again―with even more devastating results.

  《磨坊路》是一个黑暗曲折的、完美编排的罗生门式故事。1982年,在一个距离纽约大约90英里的伊甸园般的小村庄里,三个好朋友帕特里克、马修和汉娜因为一桩看似无厘头的罪行联系在一起。26年后,他们都没有想到会再次见面,这一次他们又将面临怎样的结局?

  作者耶茨的这本新书写了一个复杂、富有推动力的犯罪故事,道德、责任、真相、记忆以及我们行为的后果将带给主人公们一个怎样的影响?

  

  小U精选

  

  11

  Lincoln in the Bardo

  《林肯在中阴界》

  

  George Saunders

  乔治·桑德斯

  Saunders, a masterful short story writer, takes a well-known tragedy in the life of one of the most honoured US presidents as the jumping-off point for his first novel.

  亚伯拉罕?林肯是最负盛名的美国总统之一,2017年布克文学奖得主桑德斯以他广为人知的悲剧故事作为其长篇小说的起点。

  Abraham Lincoln's son Willie died of typhoidat the age of 11 in 1862. The president mourned as the Civil War raged, its outcome unclear, and with daily reports of rising casualties.

  林肯的儿子威利1862年时死于伤寒,年仅11岁。就在林肯沉浸在丧子之痛之时,美国内战爆发,战局未定,每日伤亡报告不断攀升。

  

  Saunders uses the Tibetan Buddhist concept of 'the bardo' - that netherworld between life and death - to center his mosaic of voices within a vision of grief captured at the cemetery where Willie is buried. Saunders delicately reveals a connection between a father's grief and Lincoln's strategic decision to "be brave and resolve the thing."

  作者桑德斯桑德斯通过藏传佛教里的“中阴界”这一概念来呈现威利墓地上的悲伤幻象。桑德斯细腻地揭示了林肯作为父亲的悲伤和他决定“勇敢面对,解决问题”的关键决定之间的联系。

  桑德斯曾在访谈中说,之所以写这个故事,是因为听朋友说林肯曾经跑回公墓很多次去拥抱小威利的身体——这个画面在他的脑海中生根发芽了近20年,直至他动笔写成小说。由此,我们看到了在桑德斯笔下,在橡树山公墓,林肯独自向小威利倾诉内心的感人一幕。这本书关于死亡、悲伤、痛苦与压力,能够让你接受灵魂的感召,思考死亡的和解,你自己的,以及挚爱至亲之人的。

  12

  Pachinko

  《弹珠机》

  

  Min Jin Lee

  李敏金

The historical relationship between countries is usually a good theme of a novel. Pachinko, the new book was written by Min Jin Lee, tells a story of four generations of a Korean family from 1910, when Japan annexed Korea, through most of the 20th Century. Min Jin Lee explores some core problems of identity, motherland and the sense of belonging.

  国与国之间的历史关系常常是进入小说的好题材,韩国作家李敏金新作《弹球盘》(Pachinko)也是如此,这部作品讲述了一个韩国家族四代人的大事记,从20世纪初日本占领下的韩国开始,尔后是二战前一直到1980年代末的日本。李敏金以这本书探索了身份、故乡和归属感等核心问题。

一本朴实的长篇,讲述了女性对生活的苦难的忍受能力之高。主人公Sunja的一生似乎没有什么欢愉却充满了贫穷与苦难,甚至是各种生离死别。书中探讨的归属感、故乡等等一系列核心问题发人深省。但作者开头的一句“历史辜负了我们,但没有关系。”又像是对这些问题的宣告。

  13

  You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

  《你不必说你爱我》

  

  Sherman Alexie

  谢尔曼·亚力克西

  The Instant New York Times Bestseller

  One of the most anticipated books of 2017— Entertainment Weekly and Bustle

  纽约时报畅销书

  被娱乐周刊和美国女性网络杂志《Bustle》评为2017年最值得期待的一本书

A searing, deeply moving memoirabout family, love, loss and forgivenessfrom the critically acclaimed and bestselling National Book Award-winning author.

  一本能够将你深深打动的有关家庭、爱情和原谅的回忆录。作者亚历克斯是美国畅销书作家,受到多方的高度赞扬。

  家庭关系向来不简单,但作者与其母亲的关系更是复杂。看看这本书中一个立体又多面的亚历克西是怎样经历生活的种种考验的吧!

  14

  Difficult Woman

  《挑剔女人》

  

  Roxane Gay

  罗克塞纳·盖伊

Difficult Women tells of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail.

  关于贫困的生活、激情之爱、离奇又令人为难的人际关系。书中的女人们过着贫困的生活,爱恨交杂的婚姻以及经历着一系列情感的问题。

  这本书收录了盖伊21篇优秀短篇作品,一贯的女性主义视角。看看作者在书中对人性的弱点及自身会有怎样的探讨。

  15

  Here in Berlin

  《在柏林》

  

  Cristina Garcia

  克里斯蒂娜·加利西亚

Garcia's new novel is ingeniously structured, veering from poignant to shocking. The Visitor, her Cuban-American narrator, comes to Berlin in 2013 in search of stories. And she finds them in unexpected places – parks, museums, outdoor cafes, the aquarium, along with the Spree River.

  Garcia这部新小说构思巧妙,风格从尖锐到令人震惊。本书的叙述者是一个古巴和美国的混血儿,在2013年来到柏林寻找故事。她惊讶地发现很多故事就藏在柏林这个城市很多意想不到的角落里--公园,博物馆,咖啡屋,水族馆还有施普雷河的公共公园的河边。

  Here in Berlin has echoes of WG Sebald, but its vivid, surprising images of wartime Berlinare Garcia's own.

  在柏林,回荡着德国诗人泽巴尔德的声音,但是诗中那生动的,令人震惊的柏林战争的形象却是Garcia笔下所独有的。

  巧妙构思、尖锐的文笔,生动的柏林风景一幕幕通过Garcia的文字展现在你的眼前。

  16

  Manhattan Beach

  《曼哈顿海滩》

  

  Jennifer Egan

  珍妮弗·伊根

  Manhattan Beach is a multi-layered noir-tinged novelset in 1940s Brooklyn. With intimate focus, Egan follows Eddie Kerrigan, a tough Irishman who survives the Depression by taking a job as a bagman to mobster Dexter Styles, and his daughter Anna.

  《曼哈顿海滩》是一部多层次的小说,背景是上世纪40年代的布鲁克林。Egan笔下的主人公Eddie Kerrigan是一个坚强的爱尔兰人,他在大萧条中通过加入以Dexter Styles为头头的暴徒帮勉强存活下来并且结识了Dexter的女儿。

  Egan crafts unforgettable scenesand builds to an explosive endingthat blends submarine attacks on a US warship off the African coast with a domestic crisis that threatens Anna's future.

  Egan创造了很多令人难忘的场面,制造出一个爆炸性的结局,将在非洲海岸遭受潜艇攻击的美国军舰与危及安娜未来的国内危机混合在一起。

  作者对各种大场面的描写以及流畅的故事叙述非常引人入胜。战争、萧条、坚强是这本书的基调。

  17

  Sing, Unburied, Sing

  《歌唱不朽的歌唱》

  

  Jesmyn Ward

  杰西敏·沃德

Ward won the National Book Awardfor this haunting novel whose troubled souls include 13-year-old JoJo, who is at a crucial crossroads. His growing awareness of mortality and injusticeare mixed with love for his grandparents, fatherand motherand his three-year-old sister Kayla.

  作家Jesmyn Ward凭借这部令人难以忘怀的小说获得了国家图书奖。书中包括13岁的主人公JoJo在内的彷徨的人们正处在人生最关键的时候,他日益增长的对道德和公平的认知和对祖父祖母的爱,对父母的爱还有对三岁的妹妹Kayla的爱交织在了一起。

  沃德采用华丽的纹理语言揭开了层层历史,又以神秘的和弦般的方式结束全文。书中关于亲情、尊严、道德和公平公正的探讨以主人公Jojo的生活为背景,简单易懂、生动有趣。

  18

  A Kind of Freedom

  《一种自由》

  

  Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

  玛格丽特·威尔克森·塞克斯顿

Sexton's powerful first novel, which made the longlist for the National Book Award, traces the complex downward spiral of a black family in New Orleans from World War Two through to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

《一种自由》是塞克斯顿的处女作,同样入围了美国国家图书奖长篇小说名单。他讲述了新奥尔良地区的一个黑人家庭从二战到卡特里娜飓风灾难期间复杂的衰落史。

Despite struggles, we can see a kind of freedom glimmers with hopein this book.

哪怕书中的主人公经历动荡与不安,但我们最终还是会看到希望在向我们招手。

  虽然每个人在生活中都会经受挫折甚至绝望,但是生命中的自由与希望之光永远不会熄灭。

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  Future Home of the Living God

《永生神的未来之家》

  

  Louise Erdrich

  路易斯·厄德里克

  In this book, Erdrich turns to dystopian fiction. She creates a nightmarish regressive world in which evolution reverses, leading to ladybirds the size of cats, lizard-birds and stillborn babies.

  厄德里克转型创作了一部反乌托邦式的小说。她塑造了一个退化的噩梦般的世界,里面只有猫一样大的瓢虫、“蜥蜴鸟”以及夭折的婴儿。

  Erdrich pulls the net tight with surveillance, torture-induced betrayals, and hair-raising escapes.

  她同时讨论严密的监控系统、刑讯逼供下的背叛以及惊心动魄的潜逃等严肃的主题。

  这本书很像《使女的故事》,但同时又有厄德里克自己的风格。“未来是萦绕于我们心头的噩梦。” 厄德里克在书中写道。

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  Improvement

  《提升》

  

  Joan Silber

  琼·西尔珀

  The much celebrated Silber creates yet another artfully structurednew novel, in which stories of a multitude of characters ricochet in cunning ways, crossing generations and continents.

  西尔珀又一次创作了一本构思精巧的小说,人物众多、情节安排巧妙,时间跨越几个时代,地点遍布各个大洲。

  Kiki heads to Istanbul in 1970, and marries Osman, a carpet seller. The marriage falls apart after she follows Osman to his isolated home village, where she's tempted to take off with a trio of young Germans who are smuggling antiquities.

主人公Kiki在1970年出发去伊斯坦布尔,在那里她嫁给了一个地摊商Osman。她随后跟他回了老家,一个与世隔绝的村庄,之后他们的婚姻陷入绝境。最终她和当地走私古董的三个德国人一起离开了村庄。

  这是一部有趣的当代编年体小说,情节引人入胜。读完这本书后,你便会深入地了解其中的每个人物。

  

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