商品簡介
Life is often experienced as a continuum fragmented by moments of intense feeling or excitement. In Cut Up On Copacabana, three sets of stories?Travel Notes, Boxing Rings, and Schoolboy Rites of Passage?explore such moments in terms of travel, sport, and youth recollected in later life. Travel notoriously confronts the individual with the Other in the form of a person, place, or unanticipated event, providing strange encounters that ask to be related as stories. Sports like boxing provoke and multiply enriching but unsettling experiences in which a shift of setting, time, or boxing mode enhances insight. Youth and adolescence is a period when the tedium of experience may be seen retrospectively to be punctuated by moments of unexpected intensity, rites of passage that find here kaleidoscopic expression in narrative fragments.
