2008 - 德尼罗的游戏

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2008 – De Niro’s Game
Author: Rawi Hage
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The Judges’ Citation
When asked what he thought the most important quality a writer should posses, Rawi Hage is reputed to have replied, “Luck”!  Luck was not a factor in his winning the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2008, but the brilliance of his first novel, De Niro’s Game , a powerful, stark yet lyrical and compassionate book.

In this remarkable novel, however, luck is a central element.  The title refers to the game of chance – to the death-defying game of Russian Roulette played by DeNiro in the film The Deer Hunter. Hage’s characters find themselves in a very different yet equally extreme situation – caught in the civil war raging in Beirut in the 1980’s. Hage’s writing allows the reader a shocking intimacy with the personal impact of such conflicts. Through the fate of his anti-heroes, George and Bassam, he shows how war can envelope lives – how one doesn’t have a choice in such situations. Concepts of guilt and innocence are left to flounder in the hail of bombs and the struggle for survival.  Life itself becomes a game with no real winners, only scarred survivors whose estrangement is deeper than any bullet wound, and whose future seems darker than their blacked out city.

De Niro’s Game is also a compassionate novel of friendship and betrayal, of love and loss. The war-torn city of Beirut plays host to the bravura of the young men- a city full of marauding militia, cleverly compared with the mad dogs that also haunt its precincts – a city that gradually drags its inhabitants into the blood-red sands of extreme situations and heart-breaking betrayal.

En-route Hage employs an almost filmic prose style, a truly imagistic style that is both immediate and exciting, This produces a page-turning tour de force as the narrator, Bassam, dodges ten thousand bombs, enjoys ten thousand kisses, and eventually moves ten thousand miles from any sense of security or home.

In recounting Bassam’s struggle to escape Hage offers an explosive plot that is also effective as a meditation on war and its psychological cost. There is no easy resolution, no redemptive ending in this visceral account. There is, however, an uplifting and original lyricism to the writing, one where Hage’s imaginative flair fuses the present horror into passages of poetic intensity, The cadences of the Old Testament are there, as are angry Ginsbergian litanies as well as strong European echoes, especially of Camus’ The Outsider.  Remarkably, a dark but rich sense of humour also surfaces in the narrator’s self-deprecating reflections.

This is a magnificent achievement for a writer writing in a third language. Luck has nothing to do with this novel’s selection. Its originality, its power, its lyricism, as well as its humane appeal all mark De Niro’s Game as the work of a major literary talent and make Rawi Hage a truly deserving winner.

Judges: Helon Habila, Eibhlín Evans, Aamer Hussein, José Luis de Juan, Patricia Dunckler. Non-voting Chair, Judge Eugene R. Sullivan
About the Book
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

In Rawi Hage’s astonishing and unforgettable novel, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon’s civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in wartorn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: Obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. Meanwhile, George builds his power in the underworld of the city and embraces a life of military service, crime for profit, killing, and drugs.

Told in the voice of Bassam, De Niro’s Game is a beautiful, explosive portrait of a contemporary young man shaped by a lifelong experience of war.

Rawi Hage brilliantly fuses vivid, jump-cut cinematic imagery with the measured strength and beauty of Arabic poetry. His style mimics a world gone mad: so smooth and apparently sane that its razor-sharp edges surprise and cut deeply. A powerful meditation on life and death in a war zone, and what comes after.

(From Publisher)

About the Author
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of the
Lebanese civil war. He immigrated to Canada in 1992.

He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator. His writings have appeared in Fuse Magazine, Mizna, Jouvert, The Toronto Review, Montreal Serai, and Al-Jadid. His visual works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world. Rawi Hage is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. He resides in Montreal.

Librarian’s Comments
This is a timely novel. Hage’s style and vivid imagery powerfully convey the brutality of war and its dehumanizing effects.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author       
Rawi Hage

Country       
LB

Nominating Library       
Canada, Winnipeg Public Library

Publisher       
Canada, House of Anansi Press

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2008 - 德尼罗的游戏
作者。拉维-哈吉
获奖者! - 观看拉维-哈吉的获奖感言
2008年入围名单 2008年长名单
评委们的评语
当被问及他认为一个作家应该具备的最重要的品质是什么时，据说拉维-哈吉回答说："运气"！他说："运气"。 运气不是他赢得2008年都柏林国际IMPAC文学奖的因素，而是他的第一部小说《德尼罗的游戏》的辉煌，这是一本强大的、严酷的但又抒情的和富有同情心的书。

然而，在这部杰出的小说中，运气是一个核心因素。 书名指的是机会的游戏--指德尼罗在电影《猎鹿人》中扮演的那场挑战死亡的俄罗斯轮盘游戏。哈吉的人物发现自己处于一个非常不同但同样极端的情况中--陷入了20世纪80年代在贝鲁特肆虐的内战。哈吉的写作让读者对这种冲突的个人影响有了惊人的亲近感。通过他的反面人物乔治和巴萨姆的命运，他展示了战争是如何笼罩生命的--在这种情况下人们是如何没有选择的。罪恶和清白的概念在炸弹的呼啸声中和为生存而战的斗争中被抛在一边。 生活本身变成了一场没有真正赢家的游戏，只有伤痕累累的幸存者，他们的隔阂比任何枪伤都要深，他们的未来似乎比他们黑漆漆的城市更黑暗。

德尼罗的游戏》也是一部关于友谊和背叛、爱情和损失的富有同情心的小说。饱受战争摧残的贝鲁特市为这些年轻人的英勇行为提供了舞台--这座城市充满了掠夺性的民兵，巧妙地与在其辖区内出没的疯狗相提并论--这座城市逐渐将其居民拖入极端情况和令人心碎的背叛的血色沙场。

在途中，哈吉采用了一种几乎是电影般的散文风格，一种真正的想象力风格，既直接又令人兴奋。这产生了一种翻页的力量，叙述者巴萨姆躲避了一万颗炸弹，享受了一万个吻，最终远离了任何安全感或家园。

在叙述巴萨姆的逃亡过程中，哈吉提供了一个爆炸性的情节，同时也是对战争及其心理代价的有效沉思。这部作品没有简单的解决办法，没有救赎性的结局。然而，在写作中却有一种令人振奋的原创性抒情，海格富有想象力的天赋将目前的恐怖融合到了诗意盎然的段落中，《旧约》的腔调也在那里，还有愤怒的金斯伯格的诗篇以及强烈的欧洲回声，尤其是加缪的《局外人》。 值得注意的是，在叙述者自嘲的反思中，一种黑暗但丰富的幽默感也浮现出来。

对于一个用第三语言写作的作家来说，这是一个了不起的成就。这部小说的入选与运气毫无关系。它的原创性、它的力量、它的抒情性以及它的人文吸引力都标志着《德尼罗的游戏》是一位重要的文学人才的作品，并使拉维-哈吉成为真正当之无愧的获奖者。

评审员。赫伦-哈比拉、艾布林-埃文斯、阿默尔-侯赛因、何塞-路易斯-德胡安、帕特里夏-邓克勒。无投票权的主席，尤金-R-沙利文法官
关于这本书
只有一个真正严肃的哲学问题，那就是自杀。

在拉维-哈吉令人惊讶和难忘的小说中，加缪的这句名言成为两个陷入黎巴嫩内战的年轻人的试金石。巴萨姆和乔治是儿时的好朋友，他们在战乱的贝鲁特长大成人。现在，他们必须选择自己的未来：是留在城市，通过犯罪巩固权力；还是流亡国外，脱离他们唯一知道的生存环境。巴萨姆选择了一条道路。他痴迷于离开贝鲁特，开始了一系列的小规模犯罪，以资助他离开。与此同时，乔治在这个城市的黑社会中建立了自己的势力，并接受了服兵役、为盈利而犯罪、杀人和吸毒的生活。

德尼罗的《游戏》以巴萨姆的口吻讲述了一个由一生的战争经历塑造出来的当代年轻人的美丽而富有爆炸性的形象。

拉维-哈吉出色地将生动的、跳跃式的电影图像与阿拉伯诗歌的力度和美感融合在一起。他的风格模仿了一个疯狂的世界：如此平滑和表面上的理智，其锋利的边缘让人惊讶并深深割裂。这是一部关于战区生与死，以及之后发生的事情的强有力的沉思。

(来自出版社)

关于作者
拉维-哈吉出生在黎巴嫩的贝鲁特，经历了九年的黎巴嫩内战。
黎巴嫩内战。他于1992年移民到加拿大。

他是一位作家，一位视觉艺术家，也是一位策展人。他的文章出现在Fuse杂志、Mizna、Jouvert、The Toronto Review、Montreal Serai和Al-Jadid。他的视觉作品已在世界各地的画廊和博物馆展出。拉维-哈吉获得了加拿大艺术委员会和魁北克艺术与文学委员会的资助。他居住在蒙特利尔。

图书管理员的评论
这是一部及时的小说。哈吉的风格和生动的图像有力地表达了战争的残酷性及其非人性的影响。

其他信息
作者       
拉维-哈吉

国家       
雷曼

提名图书馆       
加拿大，温尼伯公共图书馆

出版商       
加拿大，阿南西出版社

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