介绍:
“小说不像一条道路，它更像一座房子。你走进里面，待一小会儿，这边走走，那边转转，观察房间和走廊间的关联，然后再望向窗外，看看从这个角度看，外面的世界发生了什么变化。”——爱丽丝·门罗
爱丽丝·门罗（Alice Munro 1931），加拿大女作家，被誉为“加拿大的契诃夫”。1968年发表第一部短篇小说集《快乐影子之舞》，并获得加拿大总督文学奖。2013年10月10日，艾丽斯·门罗获得2013年诺贝尔文学奖，瑞典学院给出的颁奖词是：“当代短篇文学小说大师”。由此艾丽斯·芒罗也成为了诺贝尔文学奖历史上的第13位女性。
今天我们为大家播放的是她朗诵自己的作品Friend of My Youth 中的片段：
Of course it’s my mother I’m thinking of, my mother as she was in those dreams, saying, It’s nothing, just this little tremor; saying with such astonishing lighthearted forgiveness, Oh, I knew you’d come someday. My mother surprising me, and doing it almost indifferently. Her mask, her fate, and most of her affliction taken away. How relieved I was, and happy. But I now recall that I was disconcerted as well. I would have to say that I felt slightly cheated. Yes. Offended, tricked, cheated, by this welcome turnaround, this reprieve. My mother moving rather carelessly out of her old prison, showing options and powers I never dreamed she had, changes more than herself. She changes the bitter lump of love I have carried all this time into a phantom – something useless and uncalled for, like a phantom pregnancy.
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