Ilustrado
Miguel Augusto Gabriel Jalbuena Syjuco
フィリピン系作家ミゲル・シフーコを思わせる語り手が、亡命作家クリスピン・サルバドールの死と失われた原稿を追ううちに、家族史、国史、文学史が絡み合う迷宮へ入り込んでいく。政治風刺とメタフィクションの要素を重ねながら、移民としての記憶とアイデンティティをめぐる物語が展開する。
作品情報
失われた原稿の行方を追ううちに、ひとつの国とひとつの家族の記憶が、何層にも重なって立ち上がる。
失踪した作家クリスピン・サルバドールの足跡を追う若い語り手が、フィリピンの家族、政治、文学の断片をつなぎ合わせていく。大胆な構成と多声的な語りで、国家の記憶と個人の帰属意識を同時に描き出すデビュー長編。
レビュー要約
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政治風刺と家族小説、文学ミステリーを重ねた複層的な構成が高く評価される一方で、密度の高さを重く感じる読者もいる。鋭いユーモアと歴史意識の強さが、読み応えのある長編として支持されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Picador
- 発売日
- 2011-05-24
- ページ数
- 336ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 1.83 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780312572938
- ISBN-10
- 031257293X
- 価格
- 4285 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
WINNER OF THE 2008 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone, too, is the only manuscript of his final book, a work meant to rescue him from obscurity by exposing the crimes of the Filipino ruling families. Miguel, his student and only remaining friend, sets out for Manila to investigate. The result is a rich and dramatic family saga of four generations, tracing one hundred and fifty years of Philippine history forged under the Spanish, the Americans, and the Filipinos themselves. Exuberant and wise, wildly funny and deeply moving, Ilustrado is a daring and inventive debut novel that "begins as a murder mystery and develops into an ambitious exploration of cultural identity, ambition, and artistic purpose." ( The New Yorker ).
Miguel Syjuco received the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize and the Philippines' highest literary honor, the Palanca Award, for the unpublished manuscript of Ilustrado . Born and raised in Manila, he currently lives in Montreal.
レビュー
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Enjoyable
I read this book over a long period of time. This usually ruins some books for me but with Ilustrado, I was just able to enjoy it at different points in that span of time.
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The book is a gateway to know Phillipines
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Really thought provoking insight into a usually silenced voice in the Philippines - requires full attention and perseverance but really worthwhile!
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Takes a while before you get the hang of the different story lines. Eventually it will get easy and you start to enjoy it. Love the ending.
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I found it difficult to connect with the story or uncover the soul of this book. The narrative felt scattered, with timelines and characters lacking cohesion. There were frequent quoted passages that often disrupted the flow rather than enhancing it, and the prose leaned heavily toward verbosity without adding much to the reading experience. Despite my efforts, I had to stop around page 80 out of sheer frustration. It simply didn’t work for me.
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I ordered 12 different books simultaneously, including this one, from the seller BOOK LAB, and at least half of them seems to be the pirated copies. I am quite disappointed.
関連する文学賞
- マン・アジアン文学賞 第2回（2008年） ・Winner