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Tainted love;Dirtby DAVID VANN. 堕落的爱;《丑事》大卫范恩著。 DAVID VANNs first short-story collection, Legend of a Suicide, was an arrestingmeditation on life after his father killed himself,seen through the prism of fiction. His 2011 novel, Caribou Island, similarly retraced the Alaskanlandscape of his youth to consider thedisintegration of a family in the wake of a parents suicide. Though informed by fact, thosetwo extraordinary books highlighted the power of fiction and the role of the imagination inthe unceasing struggle to explain a tragedy. 《自杀传奇》，大卫范恩的第一部短片小说集，是作者的父亲自杀后作者对生活的深沉反思。大卫范恩2011年的小说《卡布里岛》也是一样的调调，里面有作者的出生地，阿拉斯加的美景，还有自杀的父亲，以及父亲自杀后那支离破碎的家庭。小说虽然基于事实而作，但是在这两部非比寻常的小说里，虚构和幻想的力量不容忽视，因为在描述悲剧的过程之中，虚构和幻想在推动小说的持续发展上起了重要作用。 There is no suicide in Mr Vanns new novel, Dirt. But this work makes it clear thatbroken families, and the violence and destruction that love can wreak, continue to be hisabiding themes. 范恩先生的新作，《丑事》，并没有自杀这一回事，但是这本书讲得很清楚，爱可能导致家庭破碎，暴力还有破坏。这也是范恩先生不变的主题。 | 
