商品簡介
Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. The story of falling in love is the greatest tale ever told, repeated through centuries and across continents, as captivating and mysterious in contemporary London pubs as in Petrach's Renaissance Italy. Caroline's Bikini reinvents the narrative of unrequited love as experienced by a middle-aged financier and filtered through his amanuensis. How does the lover imagine and idealise the loved one? In her mischievously intelligent novel about Petrach and Laura, Dante and Beatrice, Evan and Caroline, Kirsty Gunn explores the abstract nature of courtly love in the modern world. Ready. Steady. Go!
作者簡介
Kirsty Gunn is an internationally awarded writer who published her first novel with Faber in 1994 and since then eight works of fiction, including short stories, as well as a collection of fragments and meditations, and essays. She is Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee and lives in London and Scotland with her husband and two daughters.
