唐纳德-安特里姆 作家

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Donald Antrim
Writer | Class of 2013
Composing works of fiction and nonfiction that are characterized by tightly controlled prose juxtaposed with absurd and surreal events.


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Title
Writer
Affiliation
Columbia University
Location
New York, New York
Age
55 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Website
arts.columbia.edu/faculty/donald-antrim
Published September 25, 2013
ABOUT DONALD'S WORK
Donald Antrim is a writer whose tightly crafted works of fiction and nonfiction are marked by a contrast between elegant, concise language and the disorienting chaos in which his characters find themselves. Antrim creates fictional worlds that are both commonplace and yet surreal, combining close observations of the banality of everyday life with the absurd.

The Verificationist (2000) recounts the ramblings of a group of psychoanalysts in an all-night restaurant through the eyes of Tom, who spends most of the book floating on the ceiling and whose tenuous grasp on reality is being destroyed by his dread of small, everyday decisions. In The Hundred Brothers (1998), Antrim creates a circumscribed, fantastical world in which a gathering of brothers at their ancestral estate (ostensibly to bury their father’s ashes) exposes the comical yet destructive manifestations of masculinity, sibling rivalry, and familial disintegration. As the night progresses and their task remains unfinished, the narrator both explicates and evokes in the reader the alternating feelings of love and hate that characterize his relationship with his brothers and lead to the novel’s inevitable, macabre climax.

Antrim’s first foray into nonfiction, The Afterlife: A Memoir (2007), is a series of essays in which he attempts to make peace with the legacy of his mother’s alcoholism. In lucid, tightly controlled prose, he synthesizes the overwhelming emotional chaos of life with his mother and distills painful experiences into a work of tenderness and beauty, moving past the particularity of his ordeal toward a more universal struggle with mortality and melancholy. Currently completing a new novel as well as his first collection of short stories, Antrim continues to compose works of fiction that astonish and captivate.

BIOGRAPHY
Donald Antrim received a B.A. (1981) from Brown University. He is an associate professor in the Writing Program at Columbia University, and his additional publications include Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World (1993).



唐纳德-安特里姆
作家 | 2013级
创作小说和非小说作品，其特点是严格控制的散文与荒诞和超现实的事件并列在一起。


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标题
作家
所属机构
哥伦比亚大学
工作地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时55岁
重点领域
小说和非小说写作
网站
arts.columbia.edu/faculty/donald-antrim
发表于2013年9月25日
关于唐纳德的作品
唐纳德-安特里姆是一位作家，他的小说和非小说作品制作严谨，其特点是优雅、简洁的语言与他的人物所处的混乱状态形成对比。安特里姆创造了既平凡又超现实的虚构世界，将对日常生活的平淡无奇的观察与荒诞相结合。

核实者》（The Verificationist）（2000年）通过汤姆的眼睛讲述了一群精神分析学家在一家通宵餐厅里的胡言乱语，他在书中的大部分时间都漂浮在天花板上，他对现实的脆弱把握正被他对日常小决定的恐惧所摧毁。在《一百个兄弟》（1998年）中，安特里姆创造了一个封闭的、幻想的世界，在这个世界里，兄弟们在他们的祖先的庄园里聚会（表面上是为了埋葬他们父亲的骨灰），暴露了男性气质、兄弟姐妹之间的竞争和家庭解体的滑稽而又破坏性的表现。随着夜幕的降临，他们的任务仍未完成，叙述者向读者阐述并唤起了爱与恨的交替感觉，这种感觉是他与兄弟们关系的特点，并导致小说不可避免的、可怕的高潮。

安特里姆首次涉足非小说领域，《来世》。回忆录》（2007年）是一系列散文，其中他试图与他母亲的酗酒遗产和平相处。他用清晰的、严格控制的散文，综合了与母亲一起生活时压倒性的情绪混乱，并将痛苦的经历提炼成一部温柔和美丽的作品，超越了他的苦难的特殊性，走向与死亡和忧郁的更普遍的斗争。目前，安特里姆正在完成一部新的小说以及他的第一部短篇小说集，他将继续创作出让人惊讶和着迷的小说作品。

个人简历
唐纳德-安特里姆在布朗大学获得学士学位（1981年）。他是哥伦比亚大学写作课程的副教授，他的其他出版物包括《为了一个更好的世界选举罗宾逊先生》（1993年）。