标题: 2004年--这刺眼的无光 法语 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-9-30 23:48 标题: 2004年--这刺眼的无光 法语 2004 – This Blinding Absence of Light
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Translated from the original French by Linda Coverdale
Winner of the 2004 Award
2004 Shortlist 2004 Longlist
The Judges’ Citation
This Blinding Absence of Light is a masterpiece among novels, told with searing simplicity and the sparest of language (due credit to the translator, Linda Coverdale).
It tells one man’s story of twenty years in appalling conditions of deprivation, brutality, inhumanity, silence –
” the silence of absence, the blinding absence of life”.
Based on facts, it takes this true story and transforms it into a powerful novel.
The story about the hellholes and the survivors – the living cadavers – is a moving description of both unlimited evil and the power of human spirit to survive.
Once you open Tahar Ben Jelloun’s book about this underground prison in the deserts of Morocco you will not emerge before you have explored it, with him, in the pure and lucid language that he employs and that acts like a steadfast candle in the darkness.
We admire the novel’s beauty and clarity of language, its formal restraint which gives it subtle power, its commitment to its terrible subject, its passionate evocation of the human soul and the will to survive.
Tahar Ben Jelloun’s novel is graphic and philosophical, intensely interior and fully political, a literary and metaphysical journey into an Islamic-based humanism that alone secures the tortured individual’s sanity and existence against an otherwise overwhelmingly meaningless suffering endured in the condition of a ‘blinding absence of light’.
This novel is important for many reasons. It is that marvelous modern invention – the trans-national and cross-cultural novel – composed by a writer with a keen instinct for the stories that absolutely must be told.
It is a story read against a continuing background of deprivation and inhumanity in today’s headlines.
All of us on the jury recognise that this is a book of another order, covering the widest range of human potential for good, evil and redemption. It reiterates, as only once in a while a book does, the true purpose of literature.
Judges: Anita Desai, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, John Quinn, Knut Ødegård, Michèle Roberts. Non-voting Chair, Judge Eugene R. Sullivan
About the Book
An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the 1994 Prix Mahgreb. Ben Jelloun crafts a horrific real-life narrative into fiction to tell the appalling story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies under the most harrowing conditions. Not until September 1991, under international pressure, was Hassan’s regime forced to open these desert hellholes. A handful of survivors – living cadavers who had shrunk by over a foot in height – emerged from the six-by-three-foot cells in which they had been held underground for decades.
Working closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun eschewed the traditional novel format and wrote the book in the simplest of language, reaching always for the most basic of words, the most correct descriptions. The result is a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.
About the Author
Winner of the 1994 Prix Maghreb, Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1961. A novelist, essayist, critic and poet, he is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Répubblica, El País, and Panorama. His novels include The Sacred Night, which received the Prix Goncourt in 1987, and Corruption.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Country
MA
Nominating Library
Deichmanske Bibliothek, Norway, Oslo
Publisher
The New Press
Translation
Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
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关于该书
盲目无光》是1994年马格里布奖得主塔哈尔-本-杰隆（Tahar Ben Jelloun）的最新作品，在法国立即成为广受好评的畅销书，他是第一个获得马格里布奖的北非人。本-杰隆将可怕的现实生活叙述变成了小说，讲述了摩洛哥国王哈桑二世在沙漠集中营中以最严酷的条件关押政敌的骇人故事。直到1991年9月，在国际压力下，哈桑的政权才被迫开放这些沙漠地狱。少数幸存者--身高缩水超过一英尺的活尸--从六乘三英尺的牢房中走出来，他们在地下被关押了几十年。
本-杰隆与其中一名幸存者密切合作，摒弃了传统的小说格式，用最简单的语言来写这本书，始终坚持用最基本的词汇，最正确的描述。其结果是一部令人震惊的小说，探讨了非人道的无限性和人类意志的不可能耐力。
关于作者
塔哈尔-本-杰隆（Tahar Ben Jelloun）是1994年马格里布奖得主，1944年出生于摩洛哥非斯，1961年移居法国。他是小说家、散文家、评论家和诗人，是《世界报》、《共和国报》、《国家报》和《全景报》的定期撰稿人。他的小说包括1987年获得龚古尔奖的《神圣的夜晚》，以及《腐败》。