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.
发表于2025-02-24
The Year of Magical Thinking 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
* 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...
评分当初买下它,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...
评分什么东西是你拼了命去珍惜,却还是留不住的?是亲人的生命。什么事情是你死磕都无法阻挡其发生的?是死别之后的丧恸。-莲花素手 经历过至爱亲人离世的人,也许都有过一种对于死亡的感知,从混沌到拒绝,从避讳到接受,都是一场巨大的心理世界的动荡,用海啸和地震来形容都不为...
评分琼·迪迪安(Joan Didion)的《奇想之年》。 2003年圣诞节期间,迪迪安的独生女因不明原因陷入昏迷,几天后,丈夫又心脏病猝发死亡,她看似坚强冷静地安排后事,其实内心已陷入狂乱的奇想世界。 包括朱天文、吳念真、季季、張曉風、陳文茜、傅月庵、黃春明、詹宏志、駱以軍...
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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.”
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.
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评分回忆浓浓
评分让我想到了杨绛的《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。”
评分Acquisition of information and self-analysis would go a long way, but actully one can not get through of the pain and loss, just day by day live with it.
The Year of Magical Thinking 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书