蝴蝶

by Chen Xue, 陈雪

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她说，不能飞就不是蝴蝶了。是的，蝴蝶是我的名字。

禁锢的爱情，噬人的空虚，炽烈的情欲，邃密的孤独，仓皇的生活。我知道，相爱可以有很多方式，而我是注定要爱上你的，正如那个暗红色的胎记，形状像一只蝴蝶展开翅膀，这个记号将把你牢牢烙在我身上。

《蝴蝶》是台湾小说家陈雪执笔20年短篇小说代表作精选集，收入《蝴蝶的记号》等8篇短篇小说，题材风格多样，体现了完整的创作脉络，陈雪以细腻的笔法刻画出人的情感欲望，描写在主流价值观压抑下人的痛苦与悲哀。正因为有的爱是被禁忌的，有的人是伤痕累累的，人心之间的照映触动才显得弥足珍贵。

286 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Chen Xue (陳雪), born 1970, is a key figure in the development of a queer literature in Taiwan. Since 1995, she has produced 10 novels and short story collections. Her 2009 novel The Possessed was nominated for three Taiwanese literary prizes, and her 2004 work Child on the Bridge was published in 2011 in Japanese, with an English translation in preparation. The short stories "In Search of the Lost Wings of Angels" (tr. Patricia Sieber; tr. Fran Martin) and "Dust" (tr. Howard Goldblatt) are available in English-language anthologies. Her story "Butterfly"/《蝴蝶》, was made into a film by Hong Kong woman director, Yan Yan Mak, and won awards in Taiwan, 2004, and Hong Kong, 2005.

Reviews

[bobbu · Rating 5 out of 5]

chen xue's "hudie" (butterfly) is a collection of three short stories initially published in 1996 under the title "mengyou 1994" (sleepwalking 1994).

"marks of a butterfly" was the story that truly resonated with me; that's not to say the other stories in this collection are subpar in any sense, but this is considered to be her first realistic novella—and a fantastically done one at that. her prose is nothing short of beautiful, the rambling a fitting representation of the protagonist's inner turmoil as she juggles the love she's developed for a young woman while still being married to her husband. told from a first person perspective, a'tieh, the protagonist, is nothing short of contradictory and unreliable. truly a remarkable read.