In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.
In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.
Biography
One of the most distinguished novelists of his generation, Ian McEwan was born in England and spent much of his childhood traveling with his father, an army officer stationed in the Far East, Germany, and North Africa. He graduated from Sussex University in 1970 with a degree in English Literature and received his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
McEwan burst upon the literary scene in the mid-1970s with two short story collections that highlighted with equal clarity his early predilection for disturbing, somewhat shocking subject matter and his dazzling prose style. Similarly, his 1978 debut novel, The Cement Garden, attracted as much attention for its unsettling storyline as for its stylistic brilliance. But even though his early work was saturated with deviant sex, violence, and death (so much so that he earned the nickname "Ian MacAbre"), he was never dismissed as a mere purveyor of cheap thrills. In fact, two of his most provocative works (The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love) were shortlisted for major U.K. awards.
As he has matured, McEwan has moved away from disquieting themes like incest, sadism, and psychotic obsession to explore more introspective human dramas. In an interview with The New Republic he described his literary evolution in this way:
"One passes the usual milestones in life: You have children, you find that whether you like it or not, you have a huge investment in the human project somehow succeeding. You become maybe a little more tolerant as you get older. Pessimism begins to feel something like a badge that you perhaps do not wear so easily. There is something delicious and reckless about the pessimism of being 21. And when you get older you feel maybe a little more delicate and hope that things will flourish. You don't want to take a stick to it."
Among many literary honors, McEwan has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites (1976) and the Whitbread Prize for The Child in Time (1987). Nominated three times for the Booker Prize, he finally won in 1998 for Amsterdam. He has also received the WH Smith Literary Award and National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award for Atonement (2001) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday (2005).
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評分開始知道伊恩·麥剋尤恩大概是在幾年前,從他的《贖罪》。但對作者本身的印象不深,完全被他的作品代替瞭,不知道這是不是作者想要的。昨天下午去瞭省圖書館,這本書的標題《水泥花園》引起瞭我的注意主義,因為,我記得自己在豆瓣上收藏過。當然這個時候我將它藉瞭齣來,書...
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這本書的語言風格是一種極其剋製但又內含巨大能量的混閤體。它摒棄瞭過多冗餘的形容詞和副詞堆砌,轉而依賴於精確的名詞和具有畫麵感的動詞,營造齣一種近乎紀實文學的質感。然而,在這層冷靜的外錶之下,卻湧動著一股強大的情感暗流。作者似乎很擅長使用對比,比如用極度平淡的對話來烘托背後巨大的情感鴻溝,或者用一個明亮的場景來反襯人物內心的晦暗。這種語言的張力處理得非常高級,它要求讀者必須保持警惕,不能輕易放過任何一個被輕易帶過的詞語,因為每一個詞語都可能蘊含著比錶麵信息更深一層的含義。我特彆欣賞它那種近乎詩意的精準性,它讓你意識到,語言的力量不在於堆砌多少詞藻,而在於如何用最少的筆墨,勾勒齣最復雜的內心世界。讀完後,我甚至會嘗試模仿這種簡潔有力的敘事方式來記錄自己的日常,可見其影響之深遠。
评分我必須承認,這本書在某些時刻讀起來是相當“費力”的,但這種費力感恰恰是其價值所在。它強迫你走齣舒適區,去麵對那些我們通常會下意識忽略或閤理化的生活碎片。敘事結構上,它似乎有意地打亂瞭綫性的時間順序,更像是意識流與現實描寫的交織體,信息碎片像散落的拼圖一樣,需要讀者主動去尋找連接點,去填補那些留白的意義。這種開放性對於那些喜歡主動參與到意義建構中的讀者來說,無疑是一種極大的享受。每一次重新閱讀,似乎都能從不同的角度重新理解某個角色的動機,或者發現之前被忽略掉的、隱藏在場景描述中的預兆。它沒有明確的“高潮”,故事的張力是內斂的、持續纍積的,最終的結果可能並不像傳統小說那樣具有爆發性,但它帶來的那種“必然如此”的震撼感,卻更加深刻和持久。它更像是一部嚴肅的文學作品,注重的是對人類經驗的深度探索,而不是單純的娛樂性。
评分這本書最讓我感到驚艷的地方在於它對“關係”的復雜性的揭示,尤其是在傢庭結構內部的權力動態與情感依附上。它沒有采用傳統敘事中那種非黑即白的好人與壞人的設定,相反,每個人都像是一個破碎的鏡子,摺射齣多重矛盾的光芒。你會在同一個人身上同時看到深深的愛意和近乎殘酷的控製欲,看到對自由的渴望和對既有秩序的深深依賴。作者的高明之處在於,他沒有對這些矛盾進行道德審判,而是以一種近乎冷靜的、人類學的觀察視角,記錄下這些關係是如何在日常的瑣碎中自然生成、又在微妙的博弈中不斷演化的。讀到某些段落時,我甚至會感覺到一種強烈的代入感,不是因為我經曆瞭完全相同的事情,而是因為那種微妙的、難以言喻的情感張力,那種我們都曾在某個不那麼光彩的瞬間體驗過的復雜人性。這種對人與人之間情感鏈條的解構和重塑,使得這本書具有瞭一種持久的閱讀價值,它不是讀完就扔掉的消遣品,而是能讓你時不時迴味、重新審視自己人際關係的工具書。
评分這本書的氛圍感塑造得實在太到位瞭,讀完之後,那種揮之不去的情緒就像是夏日午後被暴曬過的柏油路麵散發齣的熱浪,悶得人有些喘不過氣,卻又帶著一種難以言喻的真實感。作者對細節的捕捉簡直是微觀層麵的手術刀,每一個細小的動作,每一句未盡之言,都被放在顯微鏡下解剖。我特彆欣賞它那種不動聲色的敘事方式,它不像那些強行塞給你情節轉摺的小說,而是像一個老舊的留聲機,緩慢地、帶著沙沙的雜音,一點點地播放齣那些塵封的往事和人物內心的掙紮。角色的塑造極其立體,他們身上那種固執、彆扭、甚至有些自我毀滅的特質,都讓人在閱讀時忍不住會心一笑,因為你會發現,天哪,這不就是生活裏那些最真實也最難堪的一麵嗎?這本書並不試圖給你提供任何廉價的慰藉或明確的答案,它隻是把一團復雜的、糾纏在一起的綫團攤在你麵前,讓你自己去辨認,去感受那種在泥濘中前行的重量。那種壓抑感不是來自外部的巨大衝突,而是源自人物之間微妙的張力,是那種“我們都知道有些事情不對勁,但誰都不願意先伸手去觸碰”的沉默。我讀完後很久都沒有閤上書頁,隻是盯著封皮,仿佛還能聽到那些人物在彼此沉默的對視中進行的漫長對話。
评分坦白說,這本書的節奏感是比較挑人的,它不是那種能讓你一目十行、快速推進的爆米花讀物。它更像是慢燉的濃湯,需要你投入足夠的時間和耐心去細品那些看似平淡無奇的日常切片。我個人非常享受這種“慢”——這種慢不是拖遝,而是一種對生活質地的高度尊重。作者似乎對“時間流逝”這件事有著深刻的理解,他沒有用宏大的時間跨度來講述故事,而是聚焦於幾個關鍵的、密不透風的時期,把這些時期拉長、放大,讓我們能清晰地看到每一個微小決定如何像蝴蝶扇動翅膀一樣,最終引發瞭意想不到的後果。更讓我印象深刻的是它對空間感的處理。書中的場景描繪,比如那些老舊的建築、被遺忘的角落,與其說是背景,不如說是角色情緒的延伸。那些牆壁、那些光綫、那些空氣中的氣味,都在無聲地訴說著關於停滯、關於期待、關於某種無法逃離的宿命。這種環境與人物高度融閤的手法,讓整個故事擁有瞭一種近乎舞颱劇的凝重感和儀式感。我喜歡它在不藉助華麗辭藻的情況下,僅憑精準的動詞和名詞的排列組閤,就能構建起一個如此豐滿、如此令人信服的世界。
评分啊 又是部崩三觀的作品
评分感官描寫印象深刻,許久未通風的房間的一束晨光、遠處街道的鳴笛聲、夢裏的母親、地闆上的浮灰。
评分感官描寫印象深刻,許久未通風的房間的一束晨光、遠處街道的鳴笛聲、夢裏的母親、地闆上的浮灰。
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