内容简介

　　与摄影师路易吉·吉里于1980年代初沿波河平原的旅行启发了切拉蒂的写作，作者以考古学家的目光收集和重述倾听到的故事，它们如莫兰迪的静物，没有宏大的景观而专注于发现日常的奇异。借用约翰·伯格的话，其中充满“阳光在建筑物之间反射的孤寂”。

　　本书不是一般意义上的短篇作品集合，而是以30个短篇故事构成的一幅完整图景。

　　作者简介

　　贾尼·切拉蒂（Gianni Celati，1937—2022），卡尔维诺赞誉的意大利小说家，也是一位批评家、翻译家和导演，活跃于同意大利“新先锋”关联的文学刊物，也是斯威夫特、麦尔维尔、司汤达、罗兰·巴特等英语和法语作家的意大利文译者。贾尼·切拉蒂（Gianni Celati，1937—2022），卡尔维诺赞誉的意大利小说家，也是一位批评家、翻译家和导演，活跃于同意大利“新先锋”关联的文学刊物，也是斯威夫特、麦尔维尔、司汤达、罗兰·巴特等英语和法语作家的意大利文译者。

　　译者：崔鹏飞，四川外国语大学意大利语教师，译有《一切为时已晚》《恶意镇》（将出）等。

　　精彩书评

　　在这些故事中，我们会读到和善却不拘常规的思想者、忧郁却精于生活的人、思想幽微的哲学家。这些奇妙的冒险故事发生在日常生活中，读来令人愉悦，也会时常使人震惊。——《法兰克福汇报》

　　意大利作家贾尼·切拉蒂是一位出色的幽默家。他冷静的幽默几乎无法与严肃区分，也就更具颠覆性。他笔下简洁而时有寓言气息的故事源自民间，自称真实可信，而它们隐秘的魅力就在于，这些故事也完全可能纯属虚构。——德国《时代》周报

　　切拉蒂所讲的故事包含了个人和集体记忆的片段，带我们去重新发现口述的传统。三十个故事，或滑稽或古怪，或悲伤甚至惊悚，就像一本老相册，每一页都打开了现实扭曲的一角。——弗拉马利翁出版社

　　[在1960年代以降的意大利文学中，]无论贾尼·切拉蒂是作为作家还是理论家，都必须为他保留一席之地。——伊塔洛·卡尔维诺

　　无论谁说起波河，都会说起浓雾。那是波河性格的一部分，有如她肌肤的味道。波河是第一条[…]装设雷达的河流，因为她浓雾重锁。浓雾淹没整个波河平原，造成某种特殊的氛围与张力，像切拉蒂和更早的帕维塞等作家都曾对此有过成功描述。——约翰·伯格

　　切拉蒂总是先倾听，再讲述，对我来说那是讲故事的人的美好品质：知道如何倾听世上的声音。——安东尼奥·塔布其

　　本书的核心不仅在于对可见世界的再现，更在于对最不可能激发想象力的日常景观的接受。——伊塔洛·卡尔维诺

Content introduction

A trip along the Po Plain with photographer Luigi Giri in the early 1980s inspired Chellatti's writing, in which the author gathers and retells listened stories with the eye of an archaeologist, like Morandi's still life, focused on discovering the everyday strangeness rather than the grand landscape. In the words of John Berger, it is filled with "the solitude of the sunlight reflecting between the buildings."

This book is not a collection of short works in the ordinary sense, but a complete picture composed of 30 short stories.

About the author

Gianni Celati (1937-2022), an Italian novelist acclaimed by Calvino, was also a critic, translator and director, active in literary publications associated with the Italian "New Avant-garde", and translator into Italian of Swift, Melville, Stendhal, Roland Barthe, and other English and French writers. Gianni Celati (1937-2022), an Italian novelist acclaimed by Calvino, was also a critic, translator and director, active in literary publications associated with the Italian "New Avant-garde", and translator into Italian of Swift, Melville, Stendhal, Roland Barthe, and other English and French writers.

Translator: Cui Pengfei, an Italian teacher at Sichuan Foreign Studies University, is the author of "It's Too Late" and "Malicious Town" (Coming Soon).

Wonderful book review

In these stories, we will read of kind but unconventional thinkers, of melancholy but well-versed in life, of philosophers with obscure ideas. These wonderful adventures take place in everyday life and are both enjoyable and often shocking to read. -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Italian writer Gianni Ceratti is an excellent humorist. His cool humor, almost indistinguishable from seriousness, is all the more subversive. His succinct, sometimes allegorical stories are folkloric and claim to be true, but their secret charm is that they might as well be pure fiction. -- German weekly Die Zeit

The stories told by Ceratti contain fragments of individual and collective memory that take us on a journey to rediscover oral traditions. Thirty stories, funny or weird, sad or even scary, are like an old photo album, each page opening a twist on reality. -- Flamalion Press

[In Italian literature since the 1960s,] a place must be reserved for Gianni Ceratti, both as a writer and as a theorist. -- Italo Calvino

Whoever talks about the Po River will talk about the fog. It was part of Po's character, like the smell of her skin. The Po River is the first [...] Installed radar on the river, because she heavy fog lock. The dense fog that inundate the whole plain of the Po River creates a certain atmosphere and tension that writers such as Cerati and earlier Pavese have successfully described. -- John Berg

Ceratti always listens before he tells, and to me that's the beautiful quality of a storyteller: knowing how to listen to the world. -- Antonio Tabucci

At the heart of this book lies not only the reproduction of the visible world, but also the acceptance of everyday landscapes least likely to excite the imagination. -- Italo Calvino