ビリー・ザ・キッド全仕事 (文学の冒険) [単行本]

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

左利きの拳銃、危険な恋人、夢見る殺人者、西部の英雄ビリー・ザ・キッド。そのロマンスとヴァイオレンスに彩られた短い生涯を、詩、挿話、写真、証言、インタビューなどで再構成。略奪と逃走、銃撃戦、つかの間の平和、激しい愛、友人にして宿敵、保安官パット・ギャレットとの抗争…さまざまな断片が物語る、愛と生と死の物語。アウトロー伝説に材をとり、鮮烈な生の軌跡を描いた、ブッカー賞作家オンダーチェのアヴァンポップ・フィクション。

伝説のアウトロー、ビリー・ザ・キッド。そのロマンスとヴァイオレンスに満ちた生涯を、詩・挿話・写真・証言などで再構成。文学の新しい冒険とも言える作品を訳出。*

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth, about William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid, " a bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint. "Ondaatje's language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets."--Annie Dillard.
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“Moving and tragic. . . . Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic circular precision.” —The New York Times Book Review“The Collected Works of Billy the Kid strains one’s powers of description.... Ondaatje’s eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraint.”—Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post Book World“Wonderful.... Ondaatje’s language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art.” —Annie Dillard --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

Michael Ondaatje is a novelist and poet who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of The English Patient, Divisadero, In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and Anil's Ghost; three collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, Secular Love, and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. He received the Booker Prize for The English Patient. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。