The Investigation: A Novel
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品牌: Philippe ClaudelJohn Cullen
基本信息出版社:Nan A. Talese (2012年7月10日)精装:240页正文语种:英语ISBN:0385535341条形码:9780385535342商品重量:413 gASIN:0385535341您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介A wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing thedarkly comic nature of the human condition.
The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every way. He has been assigned to conduct an Investigation of a series of suicides (twenty-two in the past eighteen months) that have taken place at the Enterprise, a huge, sprawling complex located in an unnamed Town. The Investigator's train is delayed, and when he finally arrives, there's no one to pick him up at the station. It is alternating rain and snow, it's getting late, and there are no taxis to be seen. Off sets the Investigator, alone, into the night, unsure quite how to proceed.
So begins the Investigator's series of increasingly frustrating attempts to fulfill his task. In the course of hours of wandering looking for the entrance to The Enterprise, he bumps into a stranger hurrying past and spills open his luggage, soaking his clothes. When he finally reaches the Enterprise, he is told he does not posses the proper authorization documents to enter after regular hours. Asking for directions to a hotel, he is informed "We're not the Tourist Office," and must set off to find one himself. Time and time again, regulations hamstring him, street layouts befuddle him, and all the while he senses someone watching him, recording his every movement.
In a highly original work that is both absorbing and fascinating, Claudel undertakes a sweeping critique of the contemporary world through a variety of modes. Like Kafka, Beckett, and Huxley, he has crafted a dark fable that evokes the absurdity and alienation of existence with piercing intelligence and considerable humor.媒体推荐Praise for
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“Arrives like a fresh, why-haven’t-we-known-him discovery, revealing Philippe Claudel to be as dazzling on the page as he is on the screen.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A haunting, intensely claustrophobic allegory about intolerance, trauma, and guilt.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Deeply wise and classically beautiful . . . It is a modern masterpiece.”
—The Daily Telegraph
“Original, brilliant, and disturbing . . . Claudel is a novelist of ideas, in the French tradition.”
—The Times(London)
“In John Cullen’s deft translation, Claudel’s writing is lucid and passionate. . . . An excellent novel.”
—The Guardian
