词条 | Fugitive Pieces |
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PlotThe novel is split into two sections: Book I and Book II. Book IJakob Beer is a 7-year-old child of a Jewish family living in Poland. His house is stormed by Nazis; he escapes the fate of his parents and his sister, Bella, by hiding behind the wallpaper in a cabinet. He hides in the forest, burying himself up to the neck in the soil. After some time, he runs into an archaeologist, Athos Roussos, working on Biskupin. Athos secretly takes him to Zakynthos in Greece. Athos is also a geologist, and is fascinated with ancient wood and stones. Jakob learns Greek and English, but finds that learning new languages erases his memory of the past. After the war, Athos and Jakob move to Toronto, where after several years Jakob meets Alexandra in a music library. Alex is a fast-paced, outspokenly philosophical master of wordplay. Jakob and Alex fall in love and marry, but the relationship fails because Alex expects Jakob to change too fast and abandon his past. Jakob dwells constantly on his memories of Bella, especially her piano-playing, and they end up divorcing. Jakob meets and marries Michaela, a much younger woman but one who seems to understand him, and with Michaela's help he is able to let go of Bella. Together they move to Greece into the former home of several generations of the Roussos family. Book IIThe second part of the book is told from the perspective of Ben, a Canadian professor of Jewish descent who was born in Canada to survivors of the Holocaust. In 1954 the family home in Weston, Ontario is destroyed by Hurricane Hazel. Ben becomes an expert on the history of weather, and marries a girl named Naomi. He is a big admirer of Jakob's poetry and respects the way he deals with the Holocaust, when Ben himself has trouble coping with the horrors his parents must have endured. At the end of the novel, Ben is sent to retrieve Jakob's journals from his home in Greece, where Ben spends hours swimming in Jakob's past. Main characters
Theme, style and structureFugitive Pieces contains themes of trauma, grief, loss, and memory, primarily in relation to the Holocaust, which Michaels explores via metaphors such as nature. The work is told in a poetic style, which has caused some critics to view it as an elegy,[5] and others, such as Donna Coffey, to feel that it re-imagines the literary telling of the Holocaust and also of nature.[6] The story is told through two narratives, in the first part, Jakob's, then in the second part, Ben's, which are connected through one main event that had an effect on both narrators.[7] John Mullan has stated that he feels that the book shows how the Holocaust and traumatic moments can impact generations of survivors and their family members.[7] Fugitive Pieces also contains mentions of the senses, which are shown through an emphasis of Jakob hearing what happened to his family, rather than seeing the event take place, which in turns adds to his trauma and his inability to gain closure. Similarly, Ben has only heard stories but never had first hand experience. Michaels uses this to convey a paradox between what we hear, the language, and then the silence that follows due to the suffering and trauma of others.[8]The title of the novel is taken from Fugitive Pieces, Lord Byron's first volume of verse, privately printed in the autumn of 1806.[9] ReceptionAlong with winning many awards, Michaels has received praise from multiple media outlets and academics such as University College London professor John Mullan and Michiko Kakutani.[10][7] Film adaptation{{main|Fugitive Pieces (film)}}The novel was made into a feature film produced by Robert Lantos through his Toronto-based Serendipity Point Films Inc. It opened at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.[11] It was directed by Jeremy Podeswa, based on his screenplay adaptation of Michaels's novel. It stars Stephen Dillane as Jakob Beer and Rade Šerbedžija as Athos. Sources
References1. ^Library of Toronto Profile {{s-start}}{{s-bef|before=Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter}}{{s-ttl|title=Orange Prize for Fiction2. ^BBC Michaels profile 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.annemichaels.ca/fugitive-pieces-1|title=Fugitive Pieces|website=Anne Michaels|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-17}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/02/interview-anne-michaels|title=Interview: Anne Michaels|last=Crown|first=Sarah|date=2009-05-01|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-11-17|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} 5. ^{{Cite journal|last=Horowitz|first=Sara R.|date=2016-08-16|title=The Geography of Memory: Haunting and Haunted Landscapes in Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/628728|journal=Studies in American Jewish Literature|volume=35|issue=2|pages=216–223|issn=1948-5077}} 6. ^{{Cite journal|last=Coffey|first=Donna|date=2007-04-17|title=Blood and Soil in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces: The Pastoral in Holocaust Literature|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/213317|journal=MFS Modern Fiction Studies|volume=53|issue=1|pages=27–49|doi=10.1353/mfs.2007.0020|issn=1080-658X}} 7. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/23/fugitive-pieces-anne-michaels|title=Guardian book club: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels|last=Mullan|first=John|date=2009-05-22|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-11-09|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} 8. ^Williams, Merle;Polatinsky, Stefan. "Writing at Its Limits: Trauma Theory in Relation to Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces." ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA, vol. 52, no. 1, 2009, p. 1. 9. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15368?msg=welcome_stranger|title=Fugitive Pieces|last=Byron|first=George Gordon Byron|date=2005-03-15|language=English}} 10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/07/books/surviving-the-past-through-the-power-of-words.html|title=Surviving the Past Through the Power of Words|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|date=1997-03-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-11-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 11. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/anne-michaels/fugitive-pieces/|title=FUGITIVE PIECES by Anne Michaels {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}} |years=1997}}{{s-aft|after=Carol Shields - Larry's Party}}{{end}}{{Guardian Fiction Prize}} 8 : 1996 Canadian novels|Novels by Anne Michaels|Novels set in Toronto|Debut novels|Novels about orphans|Orange Prize for Fiction-winning works|Canadian novels adapted into films|Guardian Fiction Prize-winning works |
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