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.
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.”
發表於2024-12-22
The Year of Magical Thinking 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
* 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...
評分瓊·迪迪安(Joan Didion)的《奇想之年》。 2003年聖誕節期間,迪迪安的獨生女因不明原因陷入昏迷,幾天後,丈夫又心髒病猝發死亡,她看似堅強冷靜地安排後事,其實內心已陷入狂亂的奇想世界。 包括硃天文、吳念真、季季、張曉風、陳文茜、傅月庵、黃春明、詹宏誌、駱以軍...
評分這是她和自己心靈對話的記錄。在經曆喪夫、女兒病危等能讓一個女人完全崩潰的傢庭變故時,她把一切寫瞭下來。哀傷、誠摯。四十年共同生活的片斷迴憶,細膩而滿懷溫情:哀悼的同時還有許多對於生命的思考,關於死亡疾病,關於幸與不幸,關於婚姻、孩子和記憶,關於悲傷,以及生...
評分我們常常討論的死亡,往往是彆人的死亡,而自己的時間、生命卻從彆人的死亡中斷裂開來。那些對你來說至關重要的人,把你的生活分割成瞭擁有他或者失去他兩部分,你清晰的記得這個時間斷點前後每一件無關緊要的小事,並賦予它獨有的意義,但沒有人可以輕易接受那個事實。那些微...
評分【人生在一刹那間改變】 【那一刹那稀鬆平常】 2013年5月24日上午,我在教室上計量經濟學課,老頭兒在講颱上拿著粉筆講得正起勁,颱下有一半的學生已經主動放棄。老頭兒中氣十足的聲音,老電風扇嗡嗡的轉動聲,背後室友小聲的說話聲……所有聲音糾纏到一起,像一團解不開的耳機...
圖書標籤: JoanDidion 美國 死亡 美國文學 英文原版 文學 外國文學 英文
無感。作者自我意識過剩,分析傷痛,分析迴憶,完瞭還在一直不停分析自我。文章各種意義上的流水賬,充滿瞭我完全無法引起任何共鳴的細節,讀的時候老感覺這本書其實就是作者為瞭發泄感情而寫,如同日記。不知道magical thinking到底magical在哪兒。還不如叫做《喪夫日記》比較確切一些。我懂迴憶是由碎片構成,也不是說我反感細節,但是沒有強烈的、讀者熟悉的情感支撐,陌生的細節隻會更陌生。像死亡這樣宇宙通用的話題,卻被作者埋在一堆過於細節化的流水賬裏,對於悲傷的科學研究裏,對於自我的分析裏。但也不是完全找不到同感,讀的時候常常思緒一飄萬裏,覺得我認識的有些人雖然沒死,但是我們之間的關係基本上就像他死瞭一樣……不過話說迴來,沒有經曆過失去(甚至得到?!)的我可能從最開始就沒有跟作者站在一起。
評分看得憋屈死,不斷自我剖析的文風在米國人裏很少見麼……把自己的非正常精神狀態解剖瞭讓讀者分擔我真的欣賞不來啊
評分這書太矯情瞭,喪夫之痛轉換成事無巨細地記敘與丈夫生活四十年來之事,還不斷穿擦老太細讀各大科學研究及心靈雞湯式慰藉之片段。哪怕傷痛初時,總愛迴憶瑣屑往事,每日過得失魂落魄,其實結尾還不是應瞭那句老話,時間會淡忘一切的!
評分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.
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The Year of Magical Thinking 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載