ABSTRACT

In 1997, Jerome Charyn published The Dark Lady from Belorusse. A Memoir, a recollection of his childhood in wartime Bronx focusing on a delightful evocation of his mother. If the text displays most of Charyn’s biographemes which are already well-known to his faithful readers (the Jewish neighbourhoods of the Bronx, his immigrant parents and his older brother Harvey, a childhood spent in poverty and acculturation …), it also reinvents the figure of his mother turned into a head-turning, mesmerising enchantress dealing with the local mafia. Charyn’s rewriting of his early years in a burlesque, vividly coloured narrative in which he paints himself as an ignorant child deeply in love with his mother allows him both to rewrite his mother’s failed American dream and to stage a comical version of his vocation as a writer.

摘要

1997 年，杰罗姆·查林 (Jerome Charyn) 出版了《来自白俄罗斯的黑暗女士》。回忆录，回忆他在战时布朗克斯的童年，重点是对他母亲的愉快回忆。如果文本显示了他忠实的读者已经熟知的大部分 Charyn 的传记（布朗克斯的犹太社区，他的移民父母和他的哥哥哈维，在贫困和文化适应中度过的童年......），它也重新塑造了这个人物他的母亲变成了一个令人头晕目眩的迷人女巫，与当地的黑手党打交道。Charyn 以滑稽、生动的叙事方式重写了他早年的生活，他将自己描绘成一个深爱母亲的无知孩子，这使他既可以改写母亲失败的美国梦，也可以上演他作为作家的职业的滑稽版本.