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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories 她的身體與其它派對

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In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.

A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.

Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
 

 
在《她的身體與其它派對》(Her Body and Other Parties) 中,卡門·瑪麗亞·馬查多 (Carmen Maria Machado) 輕快地拆除了心理現實主義與科幻小說、喜劇與恐怖、幻想與幻象主義的反覆無常的界限。雖然她的作品已經贏得了她與凱倫·羅素 (Karen Russell) 和凱莉·林克 (Kelly Link) 的比較,但她有一個意見想表達,這是她自己的發自內心的想法。在這個令人震驚和刺激的處女作中,馬查多將寫作風格塑造成驚人的敘事,描繪女性生活的現實和加諸在他們身體上的暴力。
 
妻子拒絕丈夫的懇求,要求從脖子上取下綠絲帶。一個女人講述了她的性遭遇,就如同瘟疫慢慢消滅人類一般。商場裡的店員在商店舞會禮服的接縫中發現了一個可怕的秘密。一名女性的手術引起的體重減輕招致了一個不受歡迎的過夜房客。在大膽的短篇小說《特別令人髮指》(Especially Heinous) 中,馬查多重新構想了《法律與秩序:特殊受害者單元》(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) 的每一集,我們天真地認為這個節目已經證明了這一切,產生了一個幻想的警察程序,充滿了幽靈、鬼魂和有銅鈴眼般的女孩。
 
樸實又世俗,古怪又性感,怪異又刻薄,滑稽又極度嚴肅,《她的身體與其它派對》(Her Body and Other Parties) 這本書的內容從凶殘的暴力擺盪到最精緻的情感。這些故事具有爆炸性的獨創性,擴大了當代小說的可能性。

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