I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman

توضیحات

خلاصه‌ی کتاب:
داستان I Who Have Never Known Men در دنیای آخرالزمانی جریان دارد. شخصیت اصلی، زنی جوان که به سادگی “زن” نامیده می‌شود، در یک محیط زیرزمینی به همراه سی و نه زن دیگر نگهداری می‌شود. این قفس زیرزمینی تحت مراقبت مردان مسلحی است که هرگز صحبت نمی‌کنند و زنان زندانی در این فضای محدود، از جهان بیرون و حتی از یکدیگر جدا هستند.
زن جوان که از تاریخ و فرهنگ بی‌اطلاع است، زندگی روزمره‌اش را با رعایت قوانین سختگیرانه و روتین‌های محدود در قفس سپری می‌کند. او هیچ اطلاعی از هویت، گذشته یا آینده‌اش ندارد و تنها ارتباطش با دنیای بیرون از طریق یادداشت‌ها و کتاب‌های موجود در قفس است.

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قسمتی از کتاب:
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”

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درباره‌ی نویسنده:
Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family moved to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. After studying French literature she started training to be a doctor, but could not complete her medical studies when she contracted tuberculosis. She turned to writing in 1954 and her first work was published in 1958. In 1980 she qualified as a psychoanalyst. She had given up writing after her fourth book was published, and resumed her career as a novelist only some twenty years later. She wrote twelve novels and won several literary prizes, most recently the Médicis for the present novel. She was married to an architect and had two children.