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Great Days_Great Days

唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
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-- When I was a little girl I made mud pies, dangled strings down crayfish holes hoping the idiot crayfish would catch hold and allow themselves to be hauled into the light. Snarled and cried, ate ice cream and sang "How High the Moon." Popped the wings off crickets and floated stray Scrabble pieces in ditch water. All perfect and ordinary and perfect.

-- Featherings of ease and bliss.

-- I was preparing myself. Getting ready for the great day.

-- Icy day with salt on all the sidewalks.

-- Sketching attitudes and forming pretty speeches.

-- Pitching pennies at a line scraped in the dust.

-- Doing and redoing my lustrous abundant hair.

-- Man down. Center and One Eight.

-- Tied flares to my extremities and wound candy canes into my lustrous, abundant hair. Getting ready for the great day.

-- For I do not deny that I am a little out of temper.

-- Glitches in the system as yet unapprehended.

-- Oh that clown band. Oh its sweet strains.

-- Most excellent and dear friend. Who the silly seasons named for.

-- My demands were not met. One, two, three, four.

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作品简介：

Donald Barthelme's new book of stories, Great Days, is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days, which introduce a new aspect of his work. In these restless, possibility-haunted colloquies, stripped of everything save voices, changing pairs of women and pairs of men range an emotional terrain whose poles are hope and memory. Extravagant, profane, and comic, the dialogues are a considerable achievement, testing the possibilities of form and extending our engagement with the world.

In other stories Barthelme explores the tragic, ambiguous relationship between Cortés and Montezuma, uncovers units of the Swedish army on maneuvers in Manhattan, offers a country-music version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, describes a heroic cutting contest between a king of jazz and a young challenger, and provides an account of a group of zombies out on a wife-buying expedition.

As Philip Stevick wrote in The Nation, Donald Barthelme's stories stand as touchstones for narrative art of the last two decades. Great Days is an important addition to an already impressive body of work.

作者:唐纳德·巴塞尔姆

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《Great Days》最热门章节：
1、Great Days2、The Leap3、On the Steps of the Conservatory4、Morning5、The Zombies6、Concerning the Bodyguard7、The Death of Edward Lear8、The Abduction from the Seraglio9、Tales of the Swedish Army10、Belief
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