Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

格雷戈里·马奎尔（Gregory Maguire，1954年6月9日－）一直致力于推广儿童文学，并从1978年开始为儿童创作童话故事。1995年，马奎尔以经典童话《绿野仙踪》里的反派人物“西方坏女巫”为主角，创作了他第一本面向成年人的小说《魔法坏女巫》。“我们现在所看 到的历史，都是胜者写的。”马奎尔以“西方坏女巫”为契机，为长大成人的我们创作了一系列以经典童话中的“坏人”为主角的奇幻小说，挑战“胜者”视角下早已为人所熟知的故事。《魔法坏女巫》在出版8年后被改编为音乐剧，在纽约百老汇与伦敦西区热演至今，获奖无数；《魔法坏女巫》小说也已跻身世界级畅销书行列，成为20世纪经典奇幻小说之一。◇◇“魔法坏女巫”四部曲◇魔法坏女巫女巫之子人群里的狮子离开奥兹国

出版者:Regan Books

作者:Gregory Maguire

页数:448

出版时间:06 November, 1996

价格:$15.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780060987107

图书标签:小说美国女性fiction文学当代文学奇幻外国文学

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If you can find a better bang for the buck than Wicked, please let me know. I picked up Wicked, knowing nothing except that its subject matter was the Wicked Witch of the West, to be drawn immediately into Maguire's splendidly imagined world of sentient animals, multiple societies, and unique physical laws. Wicked is an enthralling, great read, hugely entertaining. On top of all this, Maguire has Bradbury's gift for creating atmosphere. The pages are heavy with dark, mysterious magic; its moral laws are ultimately incomprehensible.

Apparently doomed at conception, Elphaba is a truly terrifying infant. Razor-toothed and preternaturally intelligent, she is shunned from birth as a freak and a curse. She is nonetheless the tale's most complex, human, and compelling character, possessed of high moral sense and great courage. But neither of these qualities enables a single one of her brave, ethical actions to succeed. What are we to conclude from this?

How is it that Dorothy, the sturdy little nobody from nowhere who committed manslaughter as she landed in Oz, skips down the Yellow Brick Road impervious to danger while Elphaba strives and plots to reap only negative results?

Why is one protected while the other is doomed? Read Wicked and you will learn how the witch's monkeys became winged, where the rubies for those slippers came from, and, indeed, why the witch's skin was green. But you will wrestle, long afterward, with Maguire's moral pessimism and the snarl of grace and doom that underlies this novel. I know I will.

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