《黑铁时代》内容简介

　　独自生活在南非的柯伦太太，被确诊为癌症，生命进入倒计时。

　　她给远在美国的女儿写信，告知女儿她正经历的生活和内心的一切，是倾诉也像喃喃自语。

　　作为白人知识女性，她被政体保护，却亲眼目睹着身边人因为种族隔离制度遭受的惨剧，在自己临近的死亡和制度的罪恶导致的他者的死亡面前，她陷入了深深的无力、愤怒、悲伤和耻辱中……

　　在对女儿的诉说中，她揭开了另一个自己，也毫无保留地宣泄了她对自我和对这个时代的质问、鞭策与反思。

　　有读者评价说：“《黑铁时代》是一本极其黑暗的书，甚至比库切的其他作品还要黑暗。不过，这里需要浓重的黑暗。一个人还能如何应对即将到来的死亡和人类同胞的严重退化呢？”

　　“我想象，就像我现在所做的那样，库切坐在种族隔离的南非的床上，试图想象一个白人可以做什么，真正可以做什么，以帮助结束白人至上主义暴力政权。我认为他所想到的所有困难、矛盾和常常无力的想法都融入到了这本书中。太多的话无法写下，太多的场景无法讲述。我们这个时代的故事；衰败与反抗、罪恶与救赎的时代。”

　　南非开普敦300周年基金会将1995年的奖颁给库切，“不局限于单一的时间或国家。仔细地观察压迫、残酷和不公正，并教会读者如何看待自由以及试图表达自由的困难。”

　　在这本书中，有一个“沉重”的库切呈现。

　　作者简介：

　　J.M.库切（J.M.Coetzee）

　　享誉世界的南非作家、批评家，第一位两次获得布克奖的作家，2003年荣膺诺贝尔文学奖。还荣获耶路撒冷奖、费柏纪念奖、布莱克纪念奖、法国费米那奖、美国普利策奖、爱尔兰时报国际小说、2000年英联邦作家奖等。

　　1940年生于南非开普敦，荷兰裔移民后代，成长于南非种族隔离政策逐渐成形并盛行的年代。现居澳大利亚。

　　库切关注种族隔离下人的生存状态，享有世界声誉。

　　译者简介：

　　李青长

　　英法双语译者，毕业于浙江大学，文学学士，哲学硕士。

　　Introduction to the Black Iron Age

Living alone in South Africa, Mrs. Curran was diagnosed with cancer and entered the countdown to life.

She wrote to her daughter in the United States, telling her daughter about the life she was going through and everything in her heart, which was also like a mumble.

As a white intellectual woman protected by the regime, she witnessed the suffering of those around her because of apartheid, and was deeply powerless, angry, sad and humiliated in the face of her own near death and the death of others caused by the SINS of the system...

In the story to her daughter, she revealed another self, and unreservedly vented her questions, challenges and reflections on herself and this era.

One reader commented: "The Black Iron Age is an extremely dark book, even darker than Coetzee's other works. But there needs to be heavy darkness. How else can one cope with the impending death and severe degradation of one's fellow human beings?"

"I imagined, as I do now, Coetzee sitting on his bed in apartheid South Africa, trying to imagine what a white man could do, really could do, to help end the violent white supremacist regime." I think all the difficult, contradictory and often powerless ideas that he had in mind are incorporated into this book. Too many words cannot be written, too many scenes cannot be told. The story of our time; The age of decay and rebellion, of sin and redemption."

The Cape Town Tercentennial Foundation in South Africa awarded the 1995 prize to Coetzee "not limited to a single time or country." Take a close look at oppression, cruelty, and injustice, and teach the reader how to view freedom and the difficulties of trying to express it."

In this book, there is a "heavy" Coetzee present.

About the author:

J.M.Coetzee

World-renowned South African writer and critic, the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. He has also won the Jerusalem Prize, the Faber Memorial Prize, the Black Memorial Prize, the Fermina Prize in France, the Pulitzer Prize in the United States, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940, the son of Dutch immigrants, he grew up during the formative years of apartheid in South Africa. He lives in Australia.

Coetzee gained a worldwide reputation for his concern about the conditions of people living under apartheid.

About the Translator

Li Qingchang

English and French translator, graduated from Zhejiang University, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Philosophy.