《乳房故事集》内容简介
《乳房故事集》是印度孟加拉语作家玛哈丝维塔•黛维的代表作，也是国际底层研究分析的经典文本，由三个主旨鲜明的故事组成。
《德卢帕迪》中的多普迪是西孟加拉邦的无地劳工，因反抗地主的盘剥遭到追捕，其丈夫的尸体也被当局用作诱饵，为了不连累同伴，她只身遁入原始森林，但队友的背叛让她最终被捕，经历了残暴的侮辱后，她用自己的身体进行了骇人的反击。
《乳房给予者》中的孤女约舒妲，在身为婆罗门的丈夫康戈里被富家子弟撞伤、意外身残后，靠担任该富户家的乳娘来维持生计，一生怀孕二十多次，罹患乳腺癌的她却被家人和“雇主”双双抛弃，最终在愤懑中孤独死去。
《紧身胸衣后面》中，无地流动劳工甘格尔和部落的族人为躲避饥荒离开故土，因其哺乳时动人的身姿偶然赢得了新闻摄影师乌宾的关注，而她的美丽却给她和孩子带来了厄运，也让乌宾走上了悲哀的末路。
作者简介
玛哈丝维塔•黛维（MahaswetaDevi，1926—2016），印度孟加拉语作家，黛维并非父姓，而是女性尊称。生于达卡（今属孟加拉）的婆罗门家庭，成长于西孟加拉邦（今属印度），父母皆属于知识阶层，十岁起在加尔各答的近郊寂乡（Santiniketan）由泰戈尔创办的特殊学校接受教育，在印度国际大学和加尔各答大学获得英语学士和硕士学位，后成为记者、作家、一生著有100多部小说、20多部短篇小说集。
玛哈丝维塔1956年发表首部小说《占西的女神》，代表作有《森林的权利》（1970）、《1084号的母亲》（1974）、《乳房故事集》（1980）、《想象的地图》（1993）、《猎人书》（2002）等，有评论将其誉为“印度的托尼•莫里森”，曾两次获得印度政府颁发的国宝勋章，1997年获得有“亚洲诺贝尔奖”之称的拉蒙•麦格赛赛奖，2009年入选布克国际奖短名单。
A brief introduction to Breast Stories
Breast Stories is the representative work of Indian Bengali writer Mahasvita Devi and a classic text of international research and analysis. It consists of three stories with distinct themes.
In "Drupadi", Dhopdi is a landless laborer in West Bengal who is hunted for resisting the exploitation of landlords, and her husband's body is also used as bait by the authorities. In order not to harm her companions, she escapes into the primitive forest alone, but the betrayal of her teammates leads to her eventual arrest, and after enduring brutal insults, she fights back with her own body.
"Breast Giver" in the orphan girl Yoshida, as a Brahmin husband Kangori was injured by the rich family children, accidental disability, by serving as the rich family's nurse to make a living, life pregnant more than 20 times, suffering from breast cancer she was abandoned by the family and "employers", and finally died alone in anger.
In "Behind the Corset", the landless migrant Gangel and the tribal people leave their homeland to avoid famine, and accidentally win the attention of news photographer Ubin because of her moving posture when breastfeeding, but her beauty has brought bad luck to her and her children, and also let Ubin go to the end of grief.
About the author
MahaswetaDevi (1926-2016) was a Bengali writer, not a patronym, but a female title. Born to a Brahmin family in Dhaka (now Bangladesh), raised in West Bengal (now India) by intellectual parents, educated from the age of ten in a special school founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, a suburb of Kolkata, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the International University of India and the University of Kolkata. Later, he became a journalist and writer, and wrote more than 100 novels and more than 20 collections of short stories.
Mahasvita's first novel, The Goddess of Chansi, was published in 1956. Her works include The Rights of the Forest (1970), Mother No. 1084 (1974), Breast Tales (1980), Map of the Imagination (1993), and The Hunter Book (2002). Critics have called her the Toni Morrison of India. He has twice been awarded the Order of National Treasure by the Indian government, the Ramon Magsaysay Prize, the Asian Nobel Prize, in 1997, and the Man Booker International Prize shortlist in 2009.
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