《死于罗马》内容简介

　　《死于罗马》是德国著名作家沃尔夫冈·克彭“战后三部曲”收官之作，1954年出版之后曾引起巨大争议，现在已经成为当之无愧的德语文学经典，目前已被翻译为二十多种语言，是克彭被译介最多的小说。

　　小说讲述了“二战”后一个德国家族的不同成员在罗马交错重逢的故事。在这幅四分五裂的家族肖像中，有怀念战争的党卫军，有投机取巧的官僚，有纳粹时代的受害者，有逃避现实的后代。他们各怀心思，游荡在充满旧日神话和历史遗迹的罗马，试着用自己的方式来面对沉重的过往。

　　克彭在本书中再次展现了其独有的创作风格：精确的观察、细腻的描写、多重视角、内省式叙事。他以极强的洞察力捕捉人物的内心和道德困境，探讨了个人命运与社会变革的冲突，对一个民族的灵魂进行了深沉的拷问。社会变革的冲突，从战争、官僚、宗教、艺术四个角度拷问一个民族的灵魂。

　　作者简介

　　沃尔夫冈·克彭（Wolfgang Koeppen，1906—1996）

　　德国作家，战后德国文坛传奇。早年做过记者、演员、戏剧顾问、报刊编辑，20世纪30年代开始文学创作，著有长篇小说《伤心情事》等。1951年起发表的“战后三部曲”——《草中鸽》《温室》《死于罗马》以独特的现代主义风格完整呈现了战后德国的社会政治氛围，轰动当时的德语文坛，被公认为战后德语文学经典，奠定了克彭的大师地位。德国著名作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主君特·格拉斯称其为“当代德国最伟大的小说家”。后期著有一些游记以及回忆录《青春》。1962年荣获德语文学最高奖项“毕希纳奖”。

　　【译者简介】

　　赵洪阳

　　南京大学人文地理学硕士，德国哥廷根大学哲学院硕士，长居法国。曾在南京林业大学、法国高校以及联合国教科文组织巴黎总部任职。目前主要从事德语、法语、英语的翻译工作以及国际中文教育、中法文化交流等工作。

A brief introduction to Death in Rome

"Death in Rome" is the end of the famous German writer Wolfgang Koepen's "post-war trilogy", which caused great controversy after its publication in 1954, and has now become a well-deserved German literary classic, which has been translated into more than 20 languages, and is the most translated novel of Koepen.

The novel tells the story of a reunion of different members of a German family in Rome after World War II. In this fragmented family portrait, there are SS men nostalgic for war, opportunistic bureaucrats, victims of the Nazi era and escapist descendants. Each of them, with their own minds, wades around Rome, full of old myths and historical sites, trying to deal with the heavy past in their own way.

In this book, Koepen once again displays his unique style of writing: precise observation, delicate description, multiple perspectives, and introspective narration. With great insight, he captures the inner and moral dilemmas of his characters, explores the conflict between individual destiny and social change, and grills deeply into the soul of a nation. The conflict of social change interrogates the soul of a nation from four perspectives: war, bureaucracy, religion, and art.

About the author

Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996)

German writer, post-war German literary legend. In his early years, he worked as a journalist, actor, drama consultant, and newspaper editor. In the 1930s, he began to write literary works, including the novel "Sad Things". Since 1951, the "post-war trilogy" - "Pigeon in the Grass", "Greenhouse" and "Death in Rome" published in a unique modernist style, completely presented the social and political atmosphere of post-war Germany, which was a sensation in the German literature circle at that time, and was recognized as a classic of post-war German literature, laying the foundation of Keppen's master status. Gunter Grass, a famous German writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, called him "the greatest contemporary German novelist." Later, he wrote several travelogues and a memoir, Youth. In 1962, he was awarded the Beechner Prize, the highest prize in German literature.

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Zhao Hongyang

Master of Human Geography, Nanjing University, Master of Philosophy, University of Gottingen, Germany, lived in France. He has worked at Nanjing Forestry University, French universities and UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. At present, he is mainly engaged in German, French and English translation work, international Chinese education, Sino-French cultural exchanges and other work.