陶瓷碎片：侯麥短篇小說集

by Éric Rohmer, 艾力克·侯麥, 蔡孟貞 (Translator)

侯麥最早的夢想是成為作家，而他這些未多加修飾、完全出自他手筆且契合他們那個時代的小說，等於是故事、諺語和喜劇輪替上陣的一部視覺佳作。

本書搜羅了八篇侯麥從一九四〇年到一九五〇年間寫就，但從未出版過的短篇小說，這些小說成為他後來攝製電影的原型：
〈一天〉是《飛行家的妻子》的骨幹，〈求婚〉則是部分的血肉；〈蒙日街〉就是《穆德家一夜》的雛形，〈手槍〉則是「六個道德故事」裡的《蘇珊的生涯》；〈誰像上帝？〉是《克萊兒之膝》，〈香妲，或試煉〉則是《女收藏家》的部分。〈溫柔的女人〉後來被羅伯．布列松（Robert Bresson）拍成《溫柔的女人》。

本書之所以冠上《陶瓷碎片》一名，原因無它，只因為這是作者自己選的，源自他年輕時相當喜愛的作家喬治．梅瑞狄斯的小說《利己主義者》，這是他在讀這本書時印在腦中的一個詞。這個書名百分百精確，而且自嘲意味濃厚地刻畫出侯麥筆下的女主人翁形象。

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2014

About the author

Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer) was a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cinéma. He was also the brother of philosopher and pedagogist René Schérer.

Scherer fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: actor and director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series.

Rohmer was the last of the French New Wave directors to become established. He worked as the editor of the Cahiers du cinéma periodical from 1957 to 1963, while most of his Cahiers colleagues, among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, were making their names in international cinema.

Reviews

[Becky]

看書的時候常常想著過去曾看過的侯麥電影，看起來簡單卻不簡單，各種瑣碎繁雜還往往遊走在道德邊緣的心思有點煩又有點好看，最喜歡《手槍》和《地鐵站的瘋子》。