Human Traces人类的踪迹

2006-7  

，Sebastian Faulks，，  

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What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces. The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria. If The Girl at the Lion d’Or was a simple three-movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera.

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SebastianFaulks的又一力作，虽是虚构作品，但是从心理分析的角度对人类精神疾病作探究，延续Faulks作品一贯的戏剧性、强烈的冲突，以及英法两国场景之间的串换。小说背景为维多利亚时代末期，对这个时期整体感兴趣或对psychoanalysis有研究的人不妨一读。另推荐Faulks最近的作品Engleby，当当不知有货否。