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2025-02-01
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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...
評分生老病死,人之常態。生命的循環,隨著年齡的增長,日漸看淡,但又愈加不捨。新生命的誕生令人欣喜,而舊生命的離去卻讓人傷心。舊生命隻是相對新生命而言,舊,可能是因為來到這世間有些許光陰瞭,生命無常,舊生命不一定是老人,有的可能恰是前一時你還覺著他/她健壯得讓你沒...
評分文/梁文道 古巴比倫史詩《吉爾伽美什》很可能是人類最早的一部文學作品,在這部史詩裏麵有一句話非常非常的動人,它說“既然你已經死瞭,於是我將披上(濕皮),在曠野中流浪”。那麼由此可見,大概是有文學開始,人類就開始用文學去做哀悼的作用,因此文學史上有這麼一種傳統...
評分牽手幾十年的老伴先行一步,唯一的愛女身染重病,曾經的幸福讓主人公無法專注於最後的人生之旅,在迴望和記錄傢庭瑣事中獲得安寜。 相同的命運和寫作背景讓很多人以為,美國瓊·狄迪恩的《充滿奇想的一年》和楊絳的《我們仨》是悼念亡者的姊妹篇。事實上,前者更著力於...
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“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." “We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
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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.
評分“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." “We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
評分Stop when you can't breath
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