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1988年4月，作家，激进女权主义者和安迪•沃霍尔的刺杀未遂者Valerie Solanas被发现死在旧金山一个肮脏角落的酒店房间里。她才52岁；孤身一人，身无分文，身旁散落着她打印出来的遗作。

在《梦想的力量》中，Sara Stridsberg重访了Solanas丧命的酒店房间，她被审判和被判意图谋杀Andy Warhol的法庭，她度过童年的乔治亚荒地，以及她被关押的精神病院。

通过想象的对话和独白，回忆和咆哮，Stridsberg重现了这个最有趣和最神秘的女性，说出了她在生活中努力想表达的思想和恐惧，并为臭名昭着的《人渣宣言》（SCUM Manifesto）的作者发出了强大而令人心碎的声音。


Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019

In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.

In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, and the mental hospitals where she was interned.

Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.