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Book Review; New fiction; Petalsof blood 书评;新小说;血色花瓣 David Grossman may have written his mostimportant novel yet; 大卫格罗斯曼或许创作了一部他目前最具影响力的小说。 To the End of the Land. By David Grossman. 《行至天尽头》，大卫格罗斯曼著。 It is no accident that the prologue to DavidGrossman s new novel, To the End of the Land, takes place in a fever ward. As the storiesunfold, the reader discovers that fever is not just a symptom of physical illness. It becomesa description of the existential state of Israel. Mr Grossman s characters are not so muchin possession of their experiences as possessed by them. They are gripped by a deepuncertainty about what will happen next: a terrorist bomb, the violent death of someoneclose, the overwhelming of their country by the enemies that surround it. It is next toimpossible to rest or be at peace. Some seek to withdraw from this situation, others toresist it. It pervades existence in ways that make a distinction between the personal andthe political something that is longed for and quite impossible to achieve. 大卫格罗斯曼的新小说《走向天尽头》以发烧病房作为开头并非偶然。随着小说情节的展开，读者发现发烧不只是身体病状。发烧成为了以色列生存状态的特征。大卫先生作品的人物与其说是具有了经验，不如说被经验缠住不得脱身。他们被不断要发生的种种深度不确定性事件引发了发烧症：恐怖分子的炸弹、至爱亲朋的死于非命、祖国四面受敌的严峻态势。 归于安定和平几无可能。一些人寻求躲之避之，另一些人则要斗之抗之。这个不确定性弥漫于存在状态的方方面面，其弥漫的方式却有截然不同的两种，各自代表了个人的或政治上极不可能实现的愿景。 | 
