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Great Days_Belief

唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
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Belief

A group of senior citizens on a bench in Washington Square Park in New York City. There were two female senior citizens and two male senior citizens.

"Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit," one of the women said suddenly. She turned her head to each of the four corners of an imaginary room as she did so.

The other senior citizens stared at her.

"Why did you do that?" one of the men asked.

"Its the first of the month. If you say rabbit four times, once to each corner of the room, or the space that you are in, on the first of the month before you eat lunch, then you will be loved in that month."

Some angry black people walked by carrying steel-band instruments and bunches of flowers.

"I dont think thats true," the second woman senior citizen said. "I never heard it before and Ive heard everything."

"I think its probably just an old wives tale," one of the men said. The other male senior citizen cracked up.

"Shall we discuss old men?" the first woman asked the second woman.

The two men looked at the sky to make sure all of our countrys satellites were in the right places.

"What about your daughter the nun?" the second woman, whose name was Elise, asked the first, whose name was Kate. "You havent heard from her?"

"My daughter the nun," Kate said, "you wouldnt believe."

"Where is she?" Elise asked. "Georgia or somewhere, you told me but I forgot. Going to school you said."

"Shes getting her masters," Kate said, "they send them. Shes a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech. I was going down to visit at Thanksgiving."

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

标签:Great Days唐纳德·巴塞尔姆

Great Days》最热门章节:
1Great Days2The Leap3On the Steps of the Conservatory4Morning5The Zombies6Concerning the Bodyguard7The Death of Edward Lear8The Abduction from the Seraglio9Tales of the Swedish Army10Belief
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