Sad Tiger
幼少期から受けた性暴力の記憶を、断片的な語りと文学的思索でたどる。被害の事実を直視しながら、沈黙がどのように作られ、言葉がどこまで届くのかを問い続ける、厳しくも精密な自伝的作品。
作品情報
語ることそのものが、沈黙に抗う行為になる。
幼いころから受けてきた性暴力と、その後に続く長い影を、作家自身の視点と文学作品の読解を交差させながら描く。記憶、沈黙、証言の限界に触れつつ、語ることの意味を切実に掘り下げる。
レビュー要約
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圧倒的な率直さと、被害の経験を文学的な思索へ開いていく構成が高く評価されている。いっぽうで、断片化された語りの強さが重く、読む側にも強い負荷を残すという受け止めもある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Seven Stories Press
- 発売日
- 2025-04-01
- ページ数
- 224ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.9 x 1.5 x 20.9 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781644214671
- ISBN-10
- 1644214679
- 価格
- 3801 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Biographical
Winner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with Sad Tiger, a book that took France by storm and is an international phenomenon. “Reading Sad Tiger is like descending into an abyss with your eyes open. It forces you to see, to really see, what it means to be a child abused by an adult, for years. Everyone should read it.” —Annie Ernaux WINNER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE, FINALIST Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was seven years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her. At 19, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather and Sinno started a new life in Mexico. Through the construction of a fragmented narrative, Sinno explores the different facets of memory—her own, her mother’s, as well as her abusive stepfather’s; and of abuse itself in all its monstrosity and banality. Her account is woven together with a close reading of literary works by Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Christine Angot, and Virginie Despentes among others. Sad Tiger —the title inspired by William Blake’s poem “The Tyger”—is a literary exploration into how to speak about the unspeakable. In this extraordinary book there is an abiding concern: how to protect others from what the author herself endured? In the midst of so much darkness, an answer reads crystal clear: by speaking up and asking questions. A striking, shocking, and necessary masterpiece. Winner of the Le Monde Literary Prize, 2023 Winner of the European Strega Prize, 2024 Winner of the Prix Femina, 2023 Winner of the Goncourt des Lycéens, 2023 Winner of the US and UK Goncourt Prizes, 2024 Winner of the Le Monde Literary Prize, 2023 Winner of the Inrockuptibles Prize, 2023 Shortlisted for the Medicis Prize, 2023 Shortlisted for the Decembre Prize, 2023 Winner of the Goncourt Prizes in Belgium, Slovakia, India, Turkey, Tunisia, and South Korea, 2023
NEIGE SINNO is a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, Le Camion and La Vie des rats . Born in France, she has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years. Her 2023 book, Triste tigre , won several of France’s top literary prizes and became the publishing sensation of the year. It is published in English as Sad Tiger by Seven Stories Press, in a translation by Natasha Lehrer. NATASHA LEHRER is a prizewinning writer and translator. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement , the Observer, and The Guardian among many others and translated works by Chantal Thomas, Vanessa Springora, Amin Maalouf, Victor Segalen, Robert Desnos, and Georges Bataille. In 2016 she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff prize for Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger. She lives in France.
レビュー
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I can’t say I truly enjoyed this book. But I couldn’t put it down. It demands that we read, and try to understand. The realization that “ nobody wins” is a difficult conclusion. This should be required reading for so many of us.
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Incredibly well written, compelling and moving.
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Raw and searingly honest - a brave and real account that touches the soul in an important way. Powerful and sad at the same time. Unforgettable.
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It was well written but a very uncomfortable read.
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Of course the subject matter is intriguing and heartbreaking. But I also learned so much as a writer from reading this exquisite book.
関連する文学賞
- Prix Femina（プリ・フェミナ） 第120回（2023年） ・Winner