苍白的国王
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace、Michael Pietsch · 初版 2011 年
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为什么值得读
- 精准捕捉现代人在职场官僚制下的枯燥与挫折
- 深入探索无聊感背后沉重的精神重力
- 细腻描摹税务与会计行业内部的真实工作状态
在这部作者逝世时尚未完结的小说中，角色 David Foster Wallace 被引介走入伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚市 IRS Regional Examination Center 的平庸世界，以及在那里工作的形形色色的奇特人物。
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大卫·福斯特·华莱士（David Foster Wallace）那部未完成的21世纪小说《苍白之王》（The Pale King）里有好几段独白，把会计这一行当以及从业者必备的心性刻画得入木三分。比如一个在IRS（美国国税局）工作的角色说道：“我明白了，当今人类所处的世界……
There are several saliloquies in the 21st century unfinished novel "The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace that do the accounting profession and its requisite temperament plenty of Justice. E.g., from a character working for the IRS: “I learned that the world of men as it exists today…
大卫·福斯特·华莱士写过一本很棒的书叫《苍白之王》，探讨了现代写字楼职场生活中的无聊与挫败感。我不确定是不是从那本书里看到的，但我很喜欢他的一句名言：“官僚体制最底层的关键在于……
David Foster Wallace wrote a great book entitled The Pale King that wrestles with the boredom and frustration of our modern office-work related lives. I’m not sure if I grabbed it from that book, but one of his quotes I enjoy is: "The underlying bureaucratic key…
……喝酒”的阅读时间，不过在年头年尾的冬天我都挤出了点时间看书。我觉得总体上最好的一本是我在年初读的尼采的《善恶的彼岸》。大卫·福斯特·华莱士的《苍白之王》我之前一直当作“紧急情况请敲碎玻璃”的应急储备藏着，因为我实在舍不得把他所有的作品都读完，而最近我终于忍不住把玻璃敲碎了。我读得超级过瘾……
…drink" reading time, but I've gotten some in during the winters at each end. I think best overall was one of the ones I read way early in the year, Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche. I had been saving The Pale King by David Foster Wallace for an "in case of emergency break glass" book because I couldn't bear to finish all his writing and I just had to break the glass recently. I've been enjoying that thoroughly…
……大卫·福斯特·华莱士几乎是着了魔一般去追问这些问题、做这些思考，尤其是在他晚年。你或许能从他最后那部未完成的小说《苍白之王》中找到共鸣，这本书主要探讨了他认为无聊本身所蕴含的巨大精神重负——也就是我们这么多人不得不在现代商业社会中忍受的可怕枯燥。并不是说，像是……
…that these questions, these considerations, were pursued almost maniacally by David Foster Wallace, especially later in his life. You may find satisfaction especially in his last, unfinished novel, The Pale King, which purports especially to treat the immense spiritual gravity that he thought pertained to boredom itself, the awful tedium that so many of us have to suffer in the modern marketplace. Not, like,…
想要更全面地了解IRS内部运作的话，强烈推荐读读大卫·福斯特·华莱士的《苍白之王》。这是一本未完成的作品（他在写完前就自杀了），但里面详尽记录了他成为IRS雇员的真实经历。
To get an even better picture of the internals of the IRS, highly recommend reading The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. It's an unfinished book (he committed suicide before completing it) but details his real-life journey to becoming an IRS employee.
我超级喜欢《苍白之王》，觉得要是写完了它绝对会是我最爱的书之一。里面讲大卫·华莱士在IRS那个部门的章节_真的_太搞笑了。
I really enjoyed The Pale King, and felt that had it been finished it would have been one of my favorite books. The chapters with the David Wallace section in the IRS are _really_ funny.