Wide Sargasso Sea

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

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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.

读后感

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...  

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...  

极爱极爱这本后殖民主义时期小说，喜爱程度大大超越简爱。作者里斯是在英属殖民地长大的克里奥白人，据说青少年时第一次读到简爱里的克里奥疯女人便十分吃惊，想要有一天能够还原这个克里奥疯女人。里斯想要表达的内容繁杂，但是融合穿插得巧妙，把克里奥人介于有色人种和英国...  

《茫茫藻海》（又译《藻海无边》）是比较有名的名著前传/续篇之一。小时候就见过这本书的概要，买它来读的冲动却源于几年前一则小新闻。 《盗墓笔记》的作者南派三叔在2013年春，忽然在微博承认出轨，骂自己“人渣”，称将要离婚。这是用杀敌一万自损三千的法子逼妻子离婚啊。...  

用户评价

梦回藻海

另类视角阐述边缘人的凄苦与无助

没读完就讨论/剧透了。还好吧。写得很精致+构思精巧，但不是很有意思...而且缺乏感情上的认同。缺点诗意⋯⋯

简爱同人文。个人认为基督教和Obeah的冲突，或者说Antoinette对原信仰的抛却背离也是男主敌意的原因之一，这样一来双方的对立感越显讽刺了。

我还看过这个书呢