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

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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

她失去了挚爱一生的丈夫。 她有力的哀恸。却没有夸张。没有虚饰。没有。 而这几日猛然发现，起码我所接触到的圈子里包括自己，都曾一度或仍然容易夸大情绪。那种"虚假的甜蜜的想像"。用了大量的形容词来描绘荣耀，获得，爱情，和失去。 我仔细的阅读八月...  

* Note: This is an assignment essay for the course of 'British and American Essays', edited by the course instructor. -------------- I felt like I had been punched in the stomach reading the dedication page of The Year of Magical Thinking: “This book is f...  

当初买下它，也是因为看了《三联生活周刊》的一篇书评介绍。本书开头的那段文字，打动了我：“生活改变很快。生活瞬间改变。你坐下来吃饭，而你熟知的生活结束了。” 作者是位美国著名的女作家。就在她的女儿因流感病情加剧而住院后五天，丈夫却因为心脏病突发而意外身亡。而...  

在她给《生活》杂志写的第一篇专栏里，琼·狄迪恩透露，她和他的丈夫，作家约翰·格雷戈里·邓恩正在檀香山的皇家夏威夷酒店里，准备申请离婚。这时他们已经结婚五年，婚姻正在经历一段严重的危机，邓恩也经常在派对上半开玩笑地对朋友说，这段婚姻就是一周一周的外遇（week-to...  

用户评价

老爷子翻成“随思年”很棒啊

让我想到了杨绛的《我们仨》...喜欢那段对grief的心理学描述：“波状产生的躯体痛苦，每次持续20分钟到一个小时，感觉喉咙发紧，气短，想叹气，腹部有空感，肌肉乏力，强烈的主体压抑。”

这书太矫情了，丧夫之痛转换成事无巨细地记叙与丈夫生活四十年来之事，还不断穿擦老太细读各大科学研究及心灵鸡汤式慰藉之片段。哪怕伤痛初时，总爱回忆琐屑往事，每日过得失魂落魄，其实结尾还不是应了那句老话，时间会淡忘一切的！

想起聂华苓的Paul...

时而把至亲的生命的离去当成科学命题去剖析，又时而闪回到无限次的记忆中，是为努力与挣扎。许多遭遇无法求解，只能在岁月里学会接纳。