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博尔赫斯曾说,每一种写作无论形式,都可以看作是一种自传。这对于初入文坛的作家尤其适用。在从事文学写作之前,美国人凯文·鲍尔斯是一名士兵,17岁时在伊拉克前线度过了惊心动魄的一年。那段岁月在他的人生中烙下重重的一记,此后呼吸、回忆满满都是硝烟的气味。《黄鸟》是他的小说处女作。通常处女作在谋篇布局上都难免带着几分青涩。但鲍尔斯偏偏是初生牛犊不怕虎,他下笔老到成熟,自成一派,把战争对人和人性的伤害写了个淋漓尽致。大凡战争题材的小说,总免不了涉及对人性的摧残。反思常常是这一类型小说的终极命题。《黄鸟》也不例外。小说有一个海明威式的开头:“战争企图在春天杀死我们。”这句话简明扼要地
Borges said that every type of writing, regardless of its form, can be regarded as an autobiography. This is especially true for writers entering the literary arena. Before engaging in literary writing, the American Kevin Bowers was a soldier who, at the age of 17, had a thrilling year in front of Iraq. That time in his life, burned a heavy note, then breathing, memories are full of smoke smell. “Yellow Bird” is his novel debut. Usually the debut layout in the plot are inevitably with a bit Sentimental. However, Bowers happens to be a newborn calf who is not afraid of the tiger. He penned a mature, self-contained geniuses and wrote the most serious injury to human beings and humanity. No matter what the fiction of the war, the total will inevitably involve the destruction of human nature. Reflection is often the ultimate proposition of this type of novel. “Yellow Bird” is no exception. The novel has a Hemingway beginning: “The war attempted to kill us in the spring.” The phrase concisely