莎拉・杜楠特生活在倫敦和佛羅倫薩。寫過八部小說,編過兩本文集,其中小說《一錯再錯》(Transgressions)和《敢為人先》(Mappin9 theEdge)被搬上銀幕,引起瞭公眾廣泛的注意。她的職業生涯十分復雜,曾在電視颱、廣播電颱和齣版業工作過,現在仍是英國廣播電颱品牌藝術節目“夜間電波”的播音員。
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
From the Hardcover edition.
發表於2025-04-25
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一口氣吐完瞭《維納斯的誕生》。 看完之後又有種莫名的低落,是因為亞曆山德拉的死嗎?說不上,總之,這不是個完滿的結局。但是相比較那些矯揉做作的眾多影視作品最終倉促的假完美來說,我寜願品嘗前者淒楚的殘缺。 其實,對女主人來說,何謂殘缺?就像她說的:現在記憶...
評分 評分 評分讀的這句話時,我滿心歡喜。當然不是說我常口吐花瓣,隻是覺得這個比喻如此生動,少女所見都可以納入自身的世界。 全書的故事,一言以弊之,那就是一個女性成長的經曆吧。盡管故事的背景被設定在瞭一個極盡豪奢卻又搖搖欲墜的時代和城市,主人公對於愛情、自由的追求以及特定時...
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評分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
評分Dunant shows her love for Florence, as the city---all its landscapes and sounds and smells lived vividly through the novel. I do enjoy the metaphorical "Birth" of our lady in the novel but the ending was just, rushed. Pretty engaging read.
評分結尾並不如我所期待,這確實是一本很engaging的書,如果可以明天寫兩本書的reviews。
評分A superficial story with smooth sentences and some extreme but irrelevant scenes
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