EEG
病にある主人公が、自身の記憶と20世紀の暴力の記録を往復しながら、歴史の残響を掘り起こしていく終章的な長編。個人史、精神医学的な回想、戦争と民族浄化の痕跡が断片的に重なり合い、忘却に抗うための執拗な言葉の力が前面に出る。
作品情報
記憶は慰めではなく、忘却に抵抗するために掘り起こされるものになる。
『EEG』は、アンドレアス・バンが自らの死の瀬戸際で、個人の回想と 20 世紀の暴力の記録を突き合わせていく小説だ。旅先の都市や記憶の断片、歴史の被害者たちの名前が次々に呼び出され、失われたものを記録することそのものが、作品の運動として立ち上がる。
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戦争とファシズム、そして集団的忘却に真正面から向き合う姿勢が強く支持されている。いっぽうで、断片を積み上げる構成や、重い歴史の負荷を負う長さを難しく感じる読者もいる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- New Directions
- 発売日
- 2019-04-30
- ページ数
- 394ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.72 x 2.79 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780811228480
- ISBN-10
- 0811228487
- 価格
- 4886 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
In this breathtaking final work, Daša Drndic reaches new heights. Andreas Ban’s suicide attempt has failed. Though very ill, he still finds the will to tap on the glass of history to summon those imprisoned within. Mercilessly, he dissects society and his environment, shunning all favors as he goes after the evils and hidden secrets of our times. History remembers the names of the perpetrators, not the victims—Ban remembers and honors the lost. He travels from Rijeka to Zagreb, from Belgrade to Tirana, from Parisian avenues to Italian castles. Ghosts follow him wherever he goes: chess grandmasters who disappeared during WWII; the lost inhabitants of Latvia; war criminals who found work in the CIA and died peacefully in their beds. Ban’s family is with him too, those already dead and those with one foot in the grave. As if left with only a few pieces in a chess game, Andreas Ban—and Daša Drndic—play a stunning last match against Death.
Dasa Drndic (1946-2018) wrote Trieste --"splendid, absorbing" ( The New York Times )--shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; Belladonna--"one of the strangest and strongest books" ( TLS )-- winner of the 2018 Warwick Prize; and EEG --"a masterpiece" (Joshua Cohen). She also wrote plays, criticism, radio plays, and documentaries. Celia Hawkesworth has translated The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic, Belladonna by Dasa Drndic--shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize--and Omer Pasha Latas by the Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andric.
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“The pits began to fill.” [174] What horrific images this brief paragraph-ending sentence rouses in the mind. If anything summarizes Daša Drndić’s powerful novel, this is it: The pits began to fill. It begins with a long overdue visit, Andreas Ban, the fictional protagonist of this story, to his old family home in Rovinj, Croatia, to see his sister, Ada Ban. Reflecting on the family and of times past soon spirals into a maddening journey of discovery from Rovinj to Zagreb, Belgrade, Riga, Paris; searching through history for the lives of her grandfather, mother, and father. The story sweeps across the decades, from the beginning of the Twentieth Century to the present, over the countless mass graves scattered through Bikernieki Forest in Latvia from the Nazi occupation; to the siege of Sarajevo and the remnants of genocide. I travel. I visit cities, people and memories corroded by time. [195] EEG reminded me of the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño: a mystery of sorts, a search for something or someone, midst an endless litany of corruption and degeneracy, murder, mass graves, genocide, the more horrific for the reality of it all. Like Bolaño, Drndić never flinches. This is serious, grim stuff. Like the novels of W.G. Sebald, with their themes of memory, the uncovering of past evils, the blending of fact and fiction, EEG is difficult to categorize: novel, mystery, travelogue, history, memoir? In parts, all the above. These works are unconventional, will not be to everyone's liking. EEG may not be a light summer beach read, but it is a gripping tale that will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.
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This book arrived quickly and in condition advertised.
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The specificity of the author's research and execution were astonishing. Most satisfactory read.
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I had to make several tries to finish this book. Got it only because it was on so many “best novel” lists and when it was hard to read I was sure it would be good for me to keep trying. Basically, it’s for people who want to marinate in obscure but prolific Nazi connections, chess master deaths, and Who want to spend some hours you’ll never get back, go ahead.
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