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Hackenfeller's Ape (Faber Editions)

作者:Brophy, Brigid

出版社:Faber & Faber

年份:2023

ISBN:9780571381296

書號:20303846

裝訂:平裝

定價:$480

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內容簡介
倫敦動物園裡,Darrylhyde教授熱切盯著籠內,誘哄似地哼唱著莫札特,希望記錄下兩隻稀有猿猴的交配過程,然而受困籠中的猿猴Percy滿懷悲傷,無心理睬伴侶Edwina。
 
在連續的觀察、安撫與對話中,Darrylhyde教授逐漸對猿猴產生同理,並與Percy發展出一段奇妙的友誼。此時,一項機密任務,落到了Percy身上:政府準備在一項實驗計畫中,將牠送上太空!
 
這怎麼想都是一場有去無回的旅程,面對眾人對這隻猿猴命運的漠然,教授決定,他要想方設法幫Percy逃脫,還牠自由。
 
除了作家身分,更是人權與動物權鬥士的Brigid Brophy,於1953年出版了這部極具開創性的道德寓言,尖刻諷刺直指人類的愚昧與傲慢,及我們對非人類—甚至對人類自身—的殘酷與漠視。
 
An eccentric professor saves a London Zoo ape from a rocket experiment in this dazzling classic by a trailblazing animal rights activist, introduced by Sarah Hall.

''Pitch-perfect.'' Ali Smith
''So original.'' Hilary Mantel
''Stunning.'' Isabel Waidner
''There is nobody quite like her.'' A.S. Byatt
''Her beastly, risky best.'' Eley Williams


When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to start it all again.

In London Zoo, Professor Darrylhyde is singing to the apes again. Outside their cage, he watches the two animals, longing to observe the mating ritual of this rare species. But Percy, inhibited by confinement and melancholy, is repulsing Edwina''s desirous advances. Soon, the Professor''s connection increases as he talks, croons, befriends - so when a scientist arrives on a secret governmental mission to launch Percy into space, he vows to secure his freedom. But when met by society''s indifference, he takes matters into his own hands . . .

A trailblazing animal rights campaigner, Brigid Brophy''s sensational 1953 novel is as provocative and philosophical seventy years on. An electric moral fable, it is as much a blazingly satirical reflection on homo sapiens as the non-human - on our capacity for violence, red in tooth and claw, not only to other species, but our own.
作者介紹
Brigid Brophy (1929–1995) was a prize-winning British novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner, championing gay marriage, pacifism, vegetarianism, prison reform and Public Lending Right. Her celebrated debut novel, Hackenfeller’s Ape, was published in 1953. It was followed by many other acclaimed novels including The King of a Rainy Country, Flesh, The Finishing Touch, In Transit, and The Snow Ball (which Faber are reissuing with a new foreword by Eley Williams), as well as critical studies of Mozart, Aubrey Beardsley and Ronald Firbank, among other subjects. Brophy’s marriage to art historian Michael Levey encompassed a thirteen-year relationship with Iris Murdoch. She died in 1995.