《我桌旁的天使》内容简介

　　自传三部曲从作者的童年、青少年时期，一直写到1963年，旅居欧洲七年后回到新西兰。作者通过一种浑然天成的叙述语调，叙述了其成长及创作的全部生活，包括遭误诊为精神分裂症的经历。她独一无二的天赋，在于揭示自我脆弱性时的坦诚态度与触及的深度，无论书写伤痛、屈辱还是成功，都能泰然处之、波澜不惊。

　　在第一部《到实岛去》中，作者讲述了她高中之前的生活，“混合了事实、真相和对真相的记忆”。她其貌不扬，一头红发、满脸雀斑的小女孩，不受大家注意。在她的笔下母亲记性好、健谈，哥哥患有癫痫症，对家庭氛围产生了很大的影响。为了吸引同学注意，她偷了她爸爸的钱买口香糖而被老师发现，被罚站。

　　第二部《我桌旁的天使》讲述了在达尼丁师范学院上学，以及她随后的崩溃及被送入精神病院的经历。她在大学里很孤独，越来越退缩到自己的文学世界里。在一年的见习教学结束时，她在学校督察访问期间走出房间并消失了。

　　在一次自杀未遂之后，她被送往精神病院。她从未想过竟然存在这样一个世界。在她的描述下，是精神错乱恐怖的高强度疗程。她接受了两百多次电击治疗，并被安排进行脑白质切断手术，只因小说集获得了享有盛誉的奖项而取消。在出院前获准外住期间，在知名作家萨吉森的小屋里居住写作。散文和诗集被接受出版后，她获得资助而出国旅行。

　　第三部《镜之城的信使》，讲述了她在英国、西班牙旅居写作的经历。镜之城是支撑她的拯救世界。她继续写作，后得知她一直背负的精神分裂症的诊断是误诊。凭借一些生活经验和明智的心理治疗，她终于写下她在精神病院的生活经历。因为父亲去世，七年后终于决定重新回到新西兰。

　　著者简介

　　珍妮特·弗雷姆（JanetFrame，1924—2004），二战之后最有天赋、最有特点、影响最大的新西兰作家，她以前所未有的新颖风格突破了传统现实主义，领导了小说创作新潮流。弗雷姆共创作了十二部长篇小说、五部短篇小说集、两部诗集和三部自传。

　　弗雷姆生于新西兰南岛东南部的达尼丁郊区的一个工人家庭，父亲是铁路工人，母亲为人帮佣。1943年入达尼丁师范学院，后任教于一所中学。之后接受过精神治疗，在精神病医院休养近十年。20世纪80年代起撰写三部自传，记述其成长及生活经历。

　　但凡有资格角逐的新西兰文学奖项，弗雷姆均收入囊中，如休伯特·彻奇纪念奖、新西兰文学基金奖、罗伯特·彭斯奖等。此外，她获选美国艺术暨文学学会荣誉会员，亦斩获英联邦文学奖。鉴于其对文学事业的贡献，于1983年荣获大英帝国高级勋位（CBE）、1990年荣获新西兰国家勋章，此外还获得三所大学授予的名誉博士学位和奖章。

　　译者简介

　　吴文权，毕业于南京大学外国语学院，后留学德国，现任教于广东外语外贸大学。译作包括《幽默》《文学的读法》《中国叙事：批评与理论》，《呼吸秋千》（与余杨合译）、《看得见风景的房间》（与高韵合译），《中国文化精要》《西方文化精要》英译本（主译之一）等。

The Angel at My Desk

The trilogy covers the author's childhood and teenage years until 1963, when he returned to New Zealand after seven years in Europe. With a natural narrative tone, the author recounts his entire life of growing up and writing, including his misdiagnosis as schizophrenic. Her unique gift is the frankness and depth with which she reveals her vulnerability, and the ease with which she writes about pain, humiliation and success.

In the first book, To the Real Island, the author recounts her life before high school, "mixing facts, truths, and memories of the truth." She was a plain-looking, freckle-faced little girl with red hair and no one noticed her. In her works, her mother has a good memory and is talkative, and her brother suffers from epilepsy, which has a great influence on the family atmosphere. In order to attract the attention of her classmates, she stole her father's money to buy gum and was found out by the teacher and made to stand.

The second, An Angel at My Desk, tells the story of her time at Dunedin Teachers College and her subsequent breakdown and placement in a mental hospital. She was lonely in college, withdrawing more and more into her own literary world. At the end of a year of probationary teaching, she walked out of the room during a visit by the school inspector and disappeared.

After a suicide attempt, she was sent to a mental hospital. She had never thought that such a world existed. She described it as an intense course of insanity terror. She underwent more than two hundred electroshock treatments and was scheduled for a leukotomy, which was cancelled only after her collection of stories won a prestigious award. Before being discharged from the hospital, he was allowed to live and write in the cabin of the famous writer Sargison. After her essays and poems were accepted for publication, she received funding to travel abroad.

The third book, The Messenger in the City of Mirrors, tells the story of her writing experiences while living in England and Spain. The City of Mirrors is what sustains her and saves the world. She continued to write, only to learn that the diagnosis of schizophrenia she had been carrying was a misdiagnosis. With some life experience and wise psychotherapy, she finally wrote about her experiences living in a mental hospital. Because of the death of his father, he finally decided to return to New Zealand after seven years.

Author profile

JanetFrame (1924-2004), the most gifted, most characteristic and most influential New Zealand writer after World War II, broke through the traditional realism with an unprecedented novel style and led the new trend of novel creation. Frame wrote twelve novels, five collections of short stories, two collections of poetry, and three autobiographies.

Frame was born in the suburb of Dunedin, in the southeast of New Zealand's South Island, to a working family, his father was a railway worker and his mother a domestic. He attended Dunedin Teachers College in 1943 and later taught at a secondary school. He then underwent psychiatric treatment and was convalescing in a psychiatric hospital for nearly a decade. Since the 1980s, he has written three autobiographies, describing his growth and life experiences.

Frame has won every New Zealand literary award for which he is eligible, such as the Hubert Church Memorial Prize, the New Zealand Literary Fund Award, and the Robert Burns Award. In addition, she was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature. For his services to literature, he was awarded a CBE in 1983 and a National Order of New Zealand in 1990, as well as honorary doctorates and MEDALS from three universities.

Translator's introduction

Wu Wenquan graduated from the School of Foreign Languages of Nanjing University, then studied in Germany, and now teaches at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. His translations include Humor, The Reading of Literature, Chinese Narration: Criticism and Theory, Breath Swing (co-translated with Yu Yang), A Room with a View (co-translated with Gao Yun), Essentials of Chinese Culture and Essentials of Western Culture (one of the main translations), etc.