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

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

有多少人对简爱追求幸福的苦难历程上的那个障碍——疯女人有丝毫同情的，恐怕为数不多。在《简爱》中对她的描述共有5处，作者夏洛蒂勃朗特无一处使用褒笔，她通过简爱的眼睛和耳朵描写了疯女人“魔鬼的笑声”、“野兽般的嗥叫”、“蓬乱地似马鬃的头发”，又借罗切斯特的口...

不做标题党，因为此书本身并不吸引我，高中时的闲暇佐料，甚至不能满足我的基本温饱~ 写评语是因为发现看过这本书的人少到个位数，出于半吊子的自豪感，来抹个字~ 给的评价是在豆瓣的第一个四星，或者我们都比较苛刻，对那些不在正统路上的都不给正眼。 我不知道作者构思写作...  

I should have given a 5 but due to the horrible translation presented.... honestly I hate Jane Eyre for its both realistic and fantasy. But IT IS these features that also presented in this book attracts me. I read it about three years ago so I don't really...  

转一篇很好的引 邊緣女性的愛生與死恨 ─Jean Rhys的「克里奧反殖」文學」 我必須保留我身上最貴重的東西：我對自由的興趣 西蒙•波娃(Simone de Beauvoir)，《回憶錄》 女性必須把自己寫進本文，通過自己的奮鬥把自己嵌入世界和歷史 埃萊娜·西蘇(Hélène Cixo...  

用户评价

太悲剧了 再读简爱的话可能会觉得无比虚伪吧

发不出声音的悲哀。

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~~~

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