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《戰爭與和平》俄國文豪托爾斯泰逝世100週年紀念！
透過最偉大的文學心靈，我們得以更了解愛的真諦！
●改編電影，由奧斯卡影后海倫米蘭、「真善美」克里斯多夫普拉瑪、「贖罪」詹姆斯麥艾維主演！
●榮獲奧斯卡、金球獎最佳女主角、最佳男配角雙料提名！美國獨立精神獎最佳影片等5項提名！
他的熱情，讓愛失控，也讓愛自由！
愛讓人狂熱，他們曾視彼此為無可取代的唯一；愛也讓人窒息，時間的流逝彰顯了兩人價值觀和個性的差異。當托爾斯泰聲稱他的創作屬於全國大眾，蘇菲亞卻以死相逼，欲獨占丈夫的所有作品。兒女、秘書、醫生、朋友無法袖手旁觀，周旋於兩人之間，無可避免地也被捲入這場風暴之中……
蘇菲亞幾近瘋狂的愛讓托爾斯泰喘不過氣，他的生活越來越混亂，他的身體越來越虛弱。然而所有的爭執、虛偽、猜忌卻強化了他的信念，他決定要放手一搏，因為唯有如此，才能解放愛的枷鎖，讓生命得到真正的救贖！
傑伊．帕里尼用《為愛起程》帶領我們回到俄國文豪托爾斯泰的一九一○年，那是他生命的尾聲，卻也是他用愛與熱情印證生存價值的關鍵時刻。在帕里尼優雅細膩、充滿詩意的筆下，精神與實體的矛盾、愛與恨的分際、正義與偽善的掙扎……都如同萬花筒般以對稱鮮活的鏡像展現在我們眼前，讓我們從托爾斯泰孤注一擲的勇氣，找回那分永不衰老的熱情！
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoy
In 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the master's legacy. Sofya Andreyevna fears that she and the children she has borne Tolstoy will lose all to Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan movement, which preaches the ideals of poverty, chastity, and pacifism.
As Tolstoy seeks peace in his final days, Valentin Bulgakov is hired to be his secretary and enlisted as a spy by both camps. But Valentin's loyalty is to the great man, who in turn recognizes in the young idealist his own youthful struggle with worldly passions.
Deftly moving among a colorful cast of characters, drawing on the writings of the people on whom they are based, Jay Parini has created a stunning portrait of an enduring genius and a deeply affecting novel.
★本書中譯本《為愛起程》由「皇冠」出版
作者簡介
傑伊．帕里尼(Jay Parini)
生於1948年，在美國賓州長大，越戰期間曾旅居蘇格蘭。
身兼學者、詩人、小說家及傳記作家等多重身分的他，作品包括小說《班雅明的逃離》、《學徒情人》，和詩集《減法的藝術》，另著有約翰．史坦貝克、羅伯．佛洛斯特與威廉．福克納等知名文豪的傳記小說。
他亦擅長政治與文學評論，著有《教學之藝術》一書。此外他也曾擔任《牛津美國文學百科全書》的編輯，並定期為《衛報》等報刊撰文。目前他在佛蒙特州的密德柏里學院擔任英語文學教授
JAY PARINI, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. His novels include The Apprentice Lover and Benjamin’s Crossing. His fifth volume of poetry was The Art of
Subtraction: New and Selected Poems (2005). He has written biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner, in addition to such nonfiction works as The Art of Teaching
(2005), Why Poetry Matters (2008), and Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America (2008). Parini’s reviews and essays appear frequently in major periodicals, including The Chronicle
of Higher Education and The Guardian. He lives in Vermont.
