虚构世界中的真实——俄语布克奖新书《图书管理员》初论

On Yelizarov's Librarian

长篇小说《图书管理员》是俄罗斯年轻作家叶利扎罗夫的新作,于2008年获俄语小说布克奖。作为一位70后作家,他经历了苏联解体的历史巨变,不得不接受新旧社会交替的巨大落差,并在茫然困惑中反思过去、重构自我。透过他在小说中创造的虚构世界,我们看到一个年轻作家对苏联时代的印象和他对苏联历史与现代俄罗斯社会现实的思考。

Librarian is the masterpiece of Mikhail Yelizarov,winner of the 2008 Russian Booker Prize.As a writer born in the 1970s,he experienced the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union.He had to accept the change,reflect on the past and to reconstruct the self.Through the imaginary world in his fiction,we find a young writer's impression of the Soviet Russia and his contemplation over history and reality in Russia.