The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She's best known for her novels and her literary journalism.Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.

出版者:Knopf

作者:Joan Didion

页数:227

出版时间:2005-10-11

价格:GBP 13.29

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781400043149

图书标签:JoanDidion美国死亡美国文学英文原版文学外国文学英文

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year’s Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”

读后感

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用户评价

A book about loss and grief. Too sad.

Stop when you can't breath

无感。作者自我意识过剩，分析伤痛，分析回忆，完了还在一直不停分析自我。文章各种意义上的流水账，充满了我完全无法引起任何共鸣的细节，读的时候老感觉这本书其实就是作者为了发泄感情而写，如同日记。不知道magical thinking到底magical在哪儿。还不如叫做《丧夫日记》比较确切一些。我懂回忆是由碎片构成，也不是说我反感细节，但是没有强烈的、读者熟悉的情感支撑，陌生的细节只会更陌生。像死亡这样宇宙通用的话题，却被作者埋在一堆过于细节化的流水账里，对于悲伤的科学研究里，对于自我的分析里。但也不是完全找不到同感，读的时候常常思绪一飘万里，觉得我认识的有些人虽然没死，但是我们之间的关系基本上就像他死了一样……不过话说回来，没有经历过失去（甚至得到？！）的我可能从最开始就没有跟作者站在一起。

For once in your life, let it go. -- Finished reading them on one of the stay-up nights. Couldn't get sleep because of some stupid allergy. It's so damn easy for me to understand the feelings between the words. Feeling like I experience everything with Didion for the long yesteryear. We fall in love and we depart. Thank you for everything.

Through the trivial recollection of memories, there would be a line of epiphany strikes like thunder.