The American Trilogy, 1997-2000

The American Trilogy, 1997-2000
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美國牧歌:羅斯代表作「美國戰後三部曲」之第一部

  猶太裔的希謨.黎沃夫從中學時起便是運動健將,受封為三球明星,循規蹈矩的他在畢業後拒絕球探挖掘,選擇唸完大學並承繼家業,還娶選美皇后為妻,成為一個成功的手套工廠老闆。他愛他新進入的美國新大陸,到了一九六八年,他所鍾愛的年僅16歲的女兒梅瑞迪絲,卻在這動盪的反越戰時代,成了激進的炸彈客,最後毀了黎沃夫一家。一部以牧歌為名的「反牧歌」悲劇,探討美國夢的失去以及田園牧歌時代不復有的史詩故事。
  
  我嫁了一個共產黨員:羅斯代表作「美國戰後三部曲」之第二部
  
  描述艾拉.林格這位理想的共產黨員,經過自學苦讀與諸多努力成為家喻戶曉的廣播劇演員,身材六呎六吋,長得神似林肯總統的他,在從二次大戰全身而退之後,便熱衷於建造一個更美好世界的理想,並成為一名共產黨員,不料卻在戰後美國保守主義盛行(麥卡錫時期)被列為政治黑名單。因為他的共產黨身分,他連同其家族,被紐華克當地的「非美委員會」所整肅,而他的妻子伊芙.弗萊明,一個身為猶太人卻不想作為猶太人的前默片明星,在承受極大壓力之下,最後竟以一篇名為「我嫁了一個共產黨」的回憶錄,對他做了最致命的毀滅。
  
  故事透過林格的哥哥,如今是九十高齡的老者莫瑞,向他昔日的學生祖克曼,也就是貫穿三部曲的敘述者娓娓道出自己弟弟艾拉.林格悲慘的一生。
  
  人性污點:羅斯代表作「美國戰後三部曲」之第三部
  
  柯爾曼.西爾克作為一個淺膚色黑人,在當兵的那一刻選擇離棄血統與家族,隱姓埋名地過渡成為一個白種猶太人,憑藉著天分與努力他成就受人尊敬的學者事業,還使頹靡不振的雅典娜學院起死回生,無人得知他的祕密,包括他的妻子……直到晚年,柯爾曼因為在課堂上說了一句「幽靈」而被指控懷有種族歧視,隨後又和年紀小他一半的清潔工福妮雅有染,他所經營的完美人生也由此面臨崩解……

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  Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy, a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In American Pastoral (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquility of his domestic life and into the turbulent 1960s by his cherished daughter, an antiwar terrorist. I Married a Communist (1998), a story of betrayal set in America's anti-Communist 1940s, recounts the rise and fall of radio star Ira Ringold, exposed by his wife as "an American taking his orders from Moscow." The Human Stain (2000) is set in 1998, when America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president; in a small New England college town an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish his most virulent accuser.

  Philip Roth is the only living novelist whose works are being collected in the Library of America series. The nine-volume edition will be completed in 2013, for Roth's 80th birthday.

 

作者介紹

作者簡介

菲利普.羅斯(Philip Roth)


  1933年生於紐澤西州紐華克市一個中產階級猶太人家庭,1954年畢業於賓夕法尼亞州巴克內爾大學,隔年獲芝加哥大學文學碩士學位並留校教學,同時攻讀博士學位,後放棄研究而專事寫作。1959年以小說《再見,哥倫布》一舉成名(該書獲美國國家書卷獎)。

   1960年任教於愛荷華大學作家班,兩年後成為普林斯頓大學駐校作家,並曾在賓州大學指導過多年比較文學課程,1992年退休後仍筆耕不輟至今。羅斯的 作品廣受讀者和批評家青睞,並獲獎無數,包括普立茲文學獎、福克納文學獎、美國國家書評家協會獎、國家書卷獎,法國梅第西外國小說獎、古根海姆獎、歐亨利 小說獎和美國文學藝術獎,他本人也在1970年被選為美國文學藝術院院士。

  羅斯的小說語言華美恣肆、敘述縱橫自如,而創作風格多變, 主題選擇廣泛。其著名「祖克曼系列作品」,其中《美國牧歌》、《我嫁了一個共產黨》和《人性污點》被稱為「美國三部曲」,正是羅斯的代表作,描述戰後美國 從麥卡錫白色恐怖,歷經越戰到柯林頓性醜聞這段漫長過程的風俗誌和心靈史。

  近來羅斯在美國和世界文壇愈加獨領風騷,連續多年成為問鼎諾貝爾文學獎呼聲最高的作家,美國國家圖書館並於2005年正式將羅斯作品選編進「美國經典文庫」(The Library of America),是美國文學史上作家在世時最早被列為「正典」的當代作家。

   In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for ‘the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004’.

  Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award ‘for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship’ and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose ‘scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature’. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize.

   Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.
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