Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys, original name Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, (born August 24, 1890, Roseau, Dominica, Windward Islands, West Indies—died May 14, 1979, Exeter, Devon, England), West Indian novelist who earned acclaim for her early works set in the bohemian world of Europe in the 1920s and ’30s but who stopped writing for nearly three decades, until she wrote a successful novel set in the West Indies. ean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and postcolonial writing. Elaine Savory's study, which incorporates and modifies previous critical approaches, is a critical reading of Rhys's entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by Rhys's own manuscripts. Designed both for the serious scholar on Rhys and those unfamiliar with her writing, Savory's book insists on the importance of a Caribbean-centred approach to Rhys, and shows how this context profoundly affects her literary style. Informed by contemporary arguments on race, gender, class and nationality, Savory explores Rhys's stylistic innovations - her use of colours, her exploitation of the trope of performance, her experiments with creative non-fiction and her incorporation of the metaphysical into her texts. This study offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of this most complex and enigmatic of writers.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Jean Rhys

页数:176

出版时间:1992-08-19

价格:USD 13.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393308808

图书标签:Jean_Rhys小说女性JeanRhys英国文学英文原版简爱前传外国文学

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Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839–45. Textual notes illuminate the novel’s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wealth of material on the novel’s long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys’s biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica. Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays.

Jean Rhys 's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. A sensual and protected young woman, Antoinette Cosway grows upin the lush natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold intomarriage to the coldhearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbsto his need for money and his lust. Yet he will make her pay forher ancestors' sins of slaveholding, excessive drinking, and nihilistic despair by enslaving her as a prisoner in his bleak English home. In this best-selling novel Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.

读后感

读简爱，那个歇斯底里的女人让人觉得可憎而多余，我们没有想过她是谁，从哪里来，又为什么来到这里，与身俱来的命运，无法决定自己的归属，她平静地承受仇恨和死亡，没有童年，没有天真的希望，血液里疯狂的爱和疯狂的恨让她在无尽的折磨中烧毁了一切，那是她爱的红和热。 那个...  

这本诞生在《简·爱》之后的书是前篇故事，讲述的是被幽禁在顶楼的疯女的故事。有家族的精神病史，前半生在印度过着寄人篱下的日子，继父的疼爱使她有了一笔丰厚的嫁妆，婚后的生活变成了灾难的开始。书中的罗切斯特不是个正人君子，妻子发疯他有不可推卸的责任。  

作为<简爱>的前传，看的时候十分的痛心，很心疼Antoinette这个小姑娘。她就是<简爱>中人见人恨的疯女人。在这里成了女主角，童年的孤单与小小的欢乐，刚获得微小的幸福即被排山倒海的痛苦淹没，一遍一遍在梦境与现实间转换，十几年的囚禁生涯，的都化作熊熊的烈火，这一生，比...  

非常精妙的文本，后半部分，他和她以及他和老女佣的对话语带双关，充满了弦外之音，读者可自行解读成其它关系。 在有关男人和女人，殖民者和被殖民地，强者和弱者的故事里，there's always the other side, always。 书里对西印度群岛的风光描写充满魅力，美，孤独，灵性。故...  

用户评价

英文版的封面真好看啊。这本书96年后没有出过新的翻译版本，网络上也没有中文版……感觉期末会……

太悲剧了 再读简爱的话可能会觉得无比虚伪吧

不戳我的点啊，优点是比爱玛薄好多 提前两礼拜读完了呢~~~

Power relations everywhere. 疯癫多于诗情。在心理和文化分析上有一定意义

晚上读时觉得后背凉飕飕的，作者应该是很擅长制造气氛吧！悲剧到底是谁造成的呢？社会中一个阶级的陨落？无信任基础的婚姻？文化差异？流言妒忌虚荣？跟着这本书在阳光明媚的加勒比海岛国间阴暗，看陷入无比藻海里的人。