《米兰女孩》内容简介
幻想成为诗人的那不勒斯男孩米米,终日看着窗外——在对面楼的阳台上,“米兰女孩”像八音盒上的芭蕾舞女一般跳着舞。美好得如同神话。为了爱,一个小男孩可以完成极端的壮举:和伙伴进行“生死决斗”,甚至抛弃方言,像米兰女孩那样说意大利语。
多年后,已经进入大学的米米和童年伙伴再次相遇。我们的叙述者,那个曾经做梦的少年,却必须诚实面对他的记忆,追寻米兰女孩真正的身份。
斯塔尔诺内向《神曲》致敬,用简单、直接、现实而强烈的方式向我们讲述了童年结束的时刻:发现爱的那一刻,发现死亡的那一刻,而这二者密不可分,相互追逐。
作者简介
多梅尼科·斯塔尔诺内,意大利著名作家、编刷和记者。1943年生于那不勒斯,目前住在罗马。斯塔尔诺内在为多家意大利报纸工作前做过高中教师。目前除了写小说和剧本,他仍是多家意大利报刊的专栏作家。
2001年,他以小说《杰米托路》获得意大利文学最高奖斯特雷加奖。斯塔尔诺内已出版二十多部作品,有多部小说被改编成电影。《米兰女孩》是他的近作,出版于2021年。现今年逾八十的他仍笔耕不辍,2024年4月出版最新小说《海边的老人》。
"Milan Girl" content introduction
Mimi, a Neapolitan boy who dreams of becoming a poet, spends his days looking out of the window - on the balcony of the opposite building, the "Milanese girl" dances like a ballerina on a music box. As good as a myth. For love, a young boy can perform extreme feats: fight a "duel to the death" with a partner, and even abandon dialects and speak Italian like a Milanese girl.
Years later, Mimi, now in college, meets her childhood friend again. Our narrator, the teenager who once dreamed, must be honest with his memory and search for the true identity of the Milanese girl.
Paying homage to the Divine Comedy, Starnone tells us in a simple, direct, realistic and powerful way about the moment when childhood ends: the moment when love is discovered, and the moment when death is discovered, and the two are inseparable and chase each other.
About the author
Domenico Starnone is a famous Italian writer, editor and journalist. Born in Naples in 1943, he currently lives in Rome. Starnone worked as a high school teacher before working for several Italian newspapers. In addition to writing novels and plays, he is currently a columnist for several Italian newspapers.
In 2001, he won the Strega Prize, the highest prize in Italian literature, for his novel "Jaime Toro". Starnone has published more than twenty works, and several of his novels have been adapted into films. Milan Girl is his most recent book, published in 2021. Now over 80 this year, he is still writing, and his latest novel, The Old Man by the Sea, will be published in April 2024.