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"Boy" Author: [France] Marcus Malte Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
"Boy" Author: [France] Marcus Malte Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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▷A wild child's journey of awakening begins in 1908 | A novel that looks at the whole world.
▷Marcus Malte’s ambitious work | Poetic and restrained writing | The Chinese version is translated and published for the first time.
▷Between human madness and civilization, the boy has a vague sense of what survival is: countless disasters and a few joys; this is a young soul's deep and hopeless love for the world.
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【Content Introduction】
"The Boy" is a novel by French writer Marcus Malte, which won the 2016 Femina Prize.
The boy has no name and grew up in the forest in southern France. After his mother died, the boy embarked on a journey driven by his nature. He met many people: Joseph, who was disheartened after losing his lover, Brabette, a wandering artist, a half-armed knight with great literary talent, and Emma, the boy's lover who was like a sister and a mother. During the journey, the boy began to vaguely understand what life is made of: some joy, some twists and turns; some reunions, many separations.
As the First World War breaks out, the boy experiences the utter madness of humanity, the Holocaust, and what we call civilization. This is a journey for a young soul; in his ignorance, the boy experiences events that shape history and begins to awaken...
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【Hot reviews from the media】
A great epic, this novel brilliantly tells the story of a wild child discovering civilization. It is a wonderful story about learning and growing up, and also a parable about the cruelty of war.
—Mona Ozouf, Chairperson of the Femina Prize Jury
Marcus Malte is a man of extraordinary courage and ambition. The narrative language of the novel changes according to the situation: sometimes poetic, sometimes circuitous; sometimes sharp, sometimes violent. The novel tells us about the chaos of the world and the complexity of human nature.
——French magazine "Reading"
“A shocking work…Marcus Malte is definitely a writer who makes people’s eyes light up. His works are somewhere between poetic, mysterious and epic, which brings people a strong sense of pleasure in reading.”
--Alexandra Schutzbord, Liberation
"This is an experiment in discovering the world that will make you laugh first and then cry with sadness."
--Yves Violier, Life Newspaper
“Although he doesn’t speak, the boy’s authenticity and temperament strongly infect everyone he knows, including the readers.”
--Genevieve Simon, Reading Newspaper
About the Author
Marcus Malte
French writer, born in 1967 in La Seyne-sur-Mer, a port city on the Mediterranean coast in southern France. He has loved literature since childhood, and the works of writers such as John Steinbeck, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Giono accompanied him through his childhood. He began writing in elementary school, studied film after graduating from high school, and became a film projectionist at the age of 23. In the 1990s, his works began to be known to more readers. His representative works include "Garden of Love", "Harmony", and "Boy". Among them, "Garden of Love" won more than ten literary awards, including the ELLE Reader Award, "Harmony" won the French Reasoning Criticism Award, and "Boy" won the Femina Literary Award. The Femina Literary Award is a prestigious and important literary award in France, and the jury is composed entirely of women.
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