The Virgin Suicides

出版者:Grand Central Publishing

作者:Jeffrey Eugenides

页数:256

出版时间:1994-06-01

价格:USD 13.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780446670258

具体描述

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter's spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates 'the year of the suicides.'

作者简介

Jeffrey Eugenides is a novelist. His first book, The Virgin Suicides, earned him comparisons to such writers as William Wharton and Alice McDermott. The book's first chapter, which describes a teenaged girl jumping out of a window and impaling herself on a fence, won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides also received a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Eugenides was named by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best American novelists under forty.

读后感

不過前面的序真的寫得有夠爛，完全不明白他到底想表達什麽。哪怕就算陳腐地拖出一套“資本主義腐朽思想毒害青少年靈魂導致五個姐妹毀滅”的調調至少還説明你有個想法。這篇序完全就是口胡啊。  

有不少的哲学家谈到过死亡，很少一部分认为，人活着，是为承担责任而痛苦，而死亡也是一种面对痛苦的勇气，因为大部分人选择了生存。《折翼天使》无疑给“自杀”镀上了神秘色彩，而又给青春的迷茫带来了悲剧色彩。自从塞西莉亚的自杀，五姐妹相继歩尘而去，作者用带着浓郁抒情...  

最近把这本书又读了一遍，前前后后其实也只读了三遍而已。前两遍是粗读，这一遍是精读，除了从前很熟悉的印象之外，精读过程中发掘出了许多细节和新的东西。温故而知新，道理是这个道理，虽然古老，可我就是个怀旧的人吧。有的书的确是值得不断地去回顾的，开学这一段时间以来...  

读着尤金尼德斯的处女自杀。每次听到这个字眼，都忍不住要哼出一声Keren Ann的Suicide is Painless，5个花蕾般的姐妹相继用最极端的方式剥夺了没有理由的生，她们的美丽、难懂，被隔绝在那栋逐渐破败、散发着湿漉漉的臭味的房子里面。透过夜晚的灯光和她们圣龛中的烛火，恋慕着...  

李斯本家的姑娘们接踵死去，灵感来自于排行老幺的塞西莉亚，这个十三岁的女孩开创了家族自杀的传统，走的决绝而勇敢。先是割腕未遂，随即跳楼，少女的身躯永远停留在李斯本家草坪的栏杆头上，幽灵般召唤着她的姐妹们前赴后继，继往开来。 故事开头是比较常见的倒叙手...  

用户评价

Much better than the movie, truly dark and depressing,

那种doom的空虚感。主角的感觉很生动。画面描写很vivid，像电影镜头。

这是一本令我惊叹到愿意去读原版的书。

Much better than the movie, truly dark and depressing,

越讀越難過。猶如bleak house 的房子。