与丑陋男人的简短访谈
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 初版 1999 年
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David Foster Wallace将带领读者涉足其他作家甚至无法企及的领域锤炼成了一门艺术。在他备受赞誉的短篇小说集《BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN》中，他将诙谐幽默与逐步升级的焦灼不安融为一体，故事令人惊叹、引人入胜，拓展了我们对小说所能带来的愉悦体验的认知。
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回复主楼（GP），《Brief Interviews with Hideous Men》（与怪竭者的短暂访谈）是一本很棒的短篇小说集，如果不想一上来就死磕《Infinite Jest》（无尽的玩笑）这种大部头，读它可以很好地入门 Wallace。话虽如此，我个人也非常喜欢他的第一部……
For the GP, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a great collection of short stories and a nice way to get introduced to Wallace without having to go whole hog into something like Infinite Jest. That being said, I also very much enjoyed his first…
……对于很多（困惑迷茫的）人来说，在深刻、基础的人性层面上极具共鸣。（不可否认，我最喜欢的还是他的非虚构作品——《A Supposedly Fun Thing》里的每篇散文都堪称神作——不过《Oblivion》、《Brief Interviews with Hideous Men》、《Infinite Jest》同样是极具力量的作品，尽管有时在很多层面上都带着悲剧色彩。）
…are relevant in a deep, basic human sense for lots of (confused, lost) people. (Granted, his nonfiction pieces are what I like best -- every essay in A Supposedly Fun Thing is gold -- still, Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Infinite Jest are powerful books, though sometimes tragic on many levels.)
我真的超级超级喜欢 David Foster Wallace，但我也从来没读完过《Infinite Jest》。如果有人对读 DFW 感兴趣，要是《Infinite Jest》让你望而却步（这完全合情合理），我建议去看看他的短篇小说（《Brief Interviews with Hideous Men》）或者非虚构作品（《A Supposedly Fun Thing》）:)
I really, really love David Foster Wallace and I've also never gotten through Infinite Jest. If anyone is interested in reading DWF I'd recommend checking out his shorter fiction (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men) or non-fiction (A Supposedly Fun Thing) if Infinite Jest (rightfully) seems intimidating :)
如果你想感受一下他的黑色幽默小说风格，《Brief Interviews With Hideous Men》也是一个极佳的切入点。不过，他在非虚构作品里添油加醋、凭空捏造的东西也多得很，简直都在虚实之间反复横跳……
"Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" is also a great starting point if you want to get a sense of his darkly humorous fiction. Although, he embellishes and invents so many things in his non-fiction pieces that they straddle the line pretty…
……Gracq；胡安·埃斯拉瓦·加兰的《Historia De España Contada Para Escépticos》；皮埃罗·博伊塔尼的《Diez Lecciones Sobre Los Clásicos》；J. M. 库切的《等待野蛮人》（Waiting For The Barbarians）；埃马纽埃尔·卡雷尔的《97,196 Words》；戴维·福斯特·华莱士的《Brief Interviews With Hideous Men》；卡洛·埃米利奥·加达的《麦鲁拉纳大街的惨案》（El Zafarrancho Aquel De Via Merulana）
…Gracq Historia De España Contada Para Escépticos by Juan Eslava Galán Diez Lecciones Sobre Los Clásicos by Piero Boitani Waiting For The Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee 97,196 Words by Emmanuel Carrere Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace El Zafarrancho Aquel De Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
……这说法有一定道理，但你忽略了人在经历这事的同时所产生的自我意识（self consciousness）。我记得戴维·福斯特·华莱士在《Brief Interviews with Hideous Men》里有篇短篇小说好像就是写这个的。
…there’s a grain of truth to this, you’re neglecting the simultaneous experience of self consciousness of this at the same time. I believe there’s a David Foster Wallace short story about this somewhere in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.