The Superrationals
暫譯: 超有理數

Lacava, Stephanie

  • 出版商: Semiotext(e)
  • 出版日期: 2020-10-13
  • 售價: $810
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $769
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 192
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1635901324
  • ISBN-13: 9781635901320
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商品描述

An erotic and darkly comic novel about female friendship, set at the intersection between counterculture and the multimillion dollar art industry.

Over the course of a few days in the fall of 2015, the sophisticated and awkward, wry and beautiful Mathilde upends her tidy world. She takes a short leave from her job at one of New York's leading auction houses and follows her best friend Gretchen on an impromptu trip to Paris. While there, she confronts her late mother's hidden life, attempts to rein in Gretchen's encounters with an aloof and withholding sometime-boyfriend, and faces the traumatic loss of both her parents when she was a teenager.

Reeling between New York, Paris, Munich London, and Berlin, The Superrationals is an erotic and darkly comic story about female friendship, set at the intersection between counterculture and the multimillion dollar art industry. Mathilde takes short, perceptive notes on artworks as a way to organize her own chaotic thoughts and life. Featuring a bitchy gossip chorus within a larger carousel of voices, The Superrationals coolly surveys the international art and media worlds while exploring game theory, the uncanny, and psychoanalysis. Written in the "Young Girl" tradition of Michelle Bernstein's All The King's Horses, Bernadette Corporation's Reena Spaulings and Natasha Stagg's Surveys, The Superrationals confronts the complexity of building narrative in life and on the page and the instability that lies at the heart of everything.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本關於女性友誼、帶有情色色彩且黑色幽默十足的小說,故事背景位於反主流文化與數百萬美元藝術產業的交界。

2015 年秋季的幾天裡,成熟而笨拙、機智又美麗的 Mathilde 顛覆了自己井然有序的生活。她暫時離開紐約一家頂尖拍賣行的工作,跟著摯友 Gretchen 臨時起意前往巴黎。在那裡,她面對已故母親不為人知的人生;試圖控制 Gretchen 與一位冷漠疏離、時而交往的前男友之間的糾葛;也必須再次面對自己十幾歲時失去雙親所造成的創傷。

在紐約、巴黎、慕尼黑、倫敦與柏林之間來回奔波,《The Superrationals》是一則關於女性友誼、帶有情色色彩且黑色幽默十足的故事,背景位於反主流文化與數百萬美元藝術產業的交界。Mathilde 以簡短而敏銳的文字記錄藝術品,藉此整理自己混亂的思緒與生活。小說以一群尖酸刻薄的八卦評論者為合唱隊,並置於更大的多重聲音旋轉木馬之中;《The Superrationals》冷靜地審視國際藝術與媒體界,同時探索賽局理論、詭異感與精神分析。這部作品承襲 Michelle Bernstein《All The King's Horses》、Bernadette Corporation《Reena Spaulings》與 Natasha Stagg《Surveys》所代表的「Young Girl」傳統,正視在生活與書寫中建構敘事的複雜性,以及一切事物核心深處潛藏的不穩定。

作者簡介

Stephanie LaCava is a writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Vogue, and Interview.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Stephanie LaCava 是一位居住於 New York City 的作家。她的作品曾刊登於《Harper's Magazine》、《Artforum》、《Texte zur Kunst》、《New York Times》、《New York Review of Books》、《Vogue》及《Interview》。