确信的未知:美国人笔下的中国黑色喜剧 (The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China, simplified Chinese edition)

By Isham Cook

某外教艰难地学习着如何鞭打调教他的女学生,另一外教则让学生服下一种叫做LSD的神秘物质。在其他故事里,性机器人强奸主人,不穿内衣的女教授光顾各大咖啡馆“猎艳”,售货员用拳头对付小气的顾客,外国人太晚醒悟自己卷入的不是一次普通的家庭拜访而是一场骗局。

在这个毫无规则、叫做“中国”的大棋盘内上演的,无论是当地人与外国人之间,还是当地人彼此之间的冲突,在一名绝不循规蹈矩的外国人笔下发酵成比黑洞更为深邃的黑色喜剧,并凝结成这本让人不安却不失娱乐性的先锋故事集。

库克的情色怪诞故事集像是一面哈哈镜,映射出来华外国人最为荒诞的遭遇,堪称一部绝无仅有的作品。
——James Farrer, 《Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai》作者
破除了以往描写中国的作家们建立起的文学创作陈规,为我们提供了一杯新鲜调制的有关肉体和幻想的中国鸡尾酒,让人如痴如醉。
——Tom Carter, 《Unsavory Elements》作者
打破所有禁忌......让人想起韩邦庆的《海上花列传》
——Susan Blumberg-Kason, 《Good Chinese Wife》作者

• Language: 中文
• Publisher: Isham Cook
• Release date: Mar 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9780988744561

Isham Cook

American essayist and novelist based in China since 1994. Writing philosophy: downmarket, big concept, discriminating, provocative, outrageous. Ballard, Beckett, Borges, Dick, Kafka, Hesse, Melville, Mishima, Sade are influences.

Reviews for 确信的未知:美国人笔下的中国黑色喜剧 (The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China, simplified Chinese edition)

[chinaphotographer_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

At once reviled and respected by his contemporaries, underground blogger Isham Cook is an expatriate to contend with, covering sexy and sordid subject matter that not even the most cavalier Old China Hand would confess.His debut book, Lust & Philosophy, was a primal rampage largely set in Beijing (where Cook moonlights as a professor), though its experimental narrative ensured that it never reach a mass-market audience. In The Exact Unknown, Cook presents a more palatable read, but still manages to disregard all literary decorum that the old guard of China writers have put in place.Pieced together from his most outrageous blog posts, this collection is an intoxicating, and at times toxic, cocktail of freshly fashioned creations of flesh and of fantasy. Cook obviously delights in the ?distress (his writings) cause many Western readers, particularly on the subject of the Chinese having sex, or having sex with foreigners.?Several of the stories pruriently portray the narrator?s seduction of his female Chinese students (?You?re already a college senior and still a virgin? Oh, boy.?), though each encounter tends to conclude with the delirious if not hilarious surrealism that only happens in China: unsuspecting girl trips out on LSD? extortionate lover demands Apple products? State spy secretly videotapes a sexual escapade from afar?The book is disclaimed as fiction, though the details and dialogue are too precise to be purely imagined. Female expats will predictably be turned off if not outraged, but for worldly libertines this may become required bedtime reading.