A致X

In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity—an intimate dance, a shared meal—assume for A'ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.

信的正面，是她堅定的綿長情話，
　　信的背面，是他身陷囹圄卻遙望遠方的心靈紀錄──
　　有的是線條優美的插畫，有的只是一個靈魂熱切的低喃。

　　廢棄監獄的某間牢房裡搜出了三捆沒有標明日期的信件，全都是女子愛妲（A’ida）寫給獄中情人澤維爾（Xavier）的信。

　　愛妲的信中滿是對澤維爾的思念與渴盼。他們有共同的理想，卻只能藉文字共享，他們深愛彼此，但不得相見。愛妲也記述鎮上發生的每日瑣事──鎮民的聚會、樹上的蟲子、收音機裡的音樂、上週落下的飛彈……在看似稀鬆平常的日常瑣事裡，可以隱約嗅見人們對政治壓迫的焦慮，以及內心深處對動盪戰事的恐慌。同時，也能在字裡行間讀出人們義無反顧的理念，與對自由解放的無限想望。──沒有任何強權可以阻擋愛與信念，也沒有任何暴力能夠摧毀人類的心靈。

　　無論愛妲和澤維爾如今是生是死，無論他們是否仍住在那個不知位於何方的小鎮，約翰．伯格以觀照微物之眼繪出了一幅在苦難中斑斕綿亙的偉大風景。在生命的細節反覆被書寫之際，愛終於得以違抗一切。