Atonement

出版者:Vintage

作者:Ian McEwan

页数:384

出版时间:2002-4-2

价格:16.50美元

装帧:平装

isbn号码:9780099429791

具体描述

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

作者简介

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His other award-winning novels are The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize.

读后感

作者：xi 在电影行将结束的时候，我看到了历经重重劫难的恋人，赛西莉亚和罗比在一间廉价的公寓里深情拥吻，窗户开着，窗帘随风飘动。而在窗下的路上，身着白色披风的布里奥妮慢慢地走远了。那时我想，故事终于结束了，多么乏味的影片啊。但是这个念头还没有在内心消散，镜头...  

麦克尤恩是一个很难界定的作家。曾经偏向于将他定义为严肃作家，但他的作品中过于讨巧的情节设置以及迎合读者口味的题材选择使我动摇。但如果将他定义为大众作家，那么很明显，他与流行爱情小说作家或者故作深沉的部分日本作家又是不一样的。但麦克尤恩似乎并没有那么严肃...  

十三岁的布里奥妮雄心勃勃，立志成为一个优秀的小说家，却因为狂妄、嫉妒和误解拆散了自己的姐姐塞西莉亚和仆人的儿子罗比这对情人，致使后者蒙上强奸的罪名入狱三年，而后卷入第二次世界大战。布里奥妮成年后感到自己罪孽深重，放弃了进入剑桥学习的机会，成为一名护士照顾受...  

文章一开始，作者就以一种客观的近乎冷酷的笔调描写了布里奥妮对自己剧本的努力。之所以说“客观的近乎冷酷”，是因为对于这个只有十三岁的主人公的努力，作者以对待一个成年人的挑剔眼光，用一支充满着恶毒嘲讽的笔去描写布里奥妮的种种心理活动。于是，这样一个开头也就鲜明...  

用户评价

2010.8.20 本来想睡觉，后来还是想一鼓作气看完算了。虽然早就知道结局，看到最后一页仍是伤心不已，眼泪婆娑。电影改编算是很成功——除了结尾，我觉得电影里没有的书中结尾那个小孩演戏的一幕很好，虽然匠气太深，但是充满震撼，并且tie up the ends。中间战争的场面不是我的茶，看得有气无力的。整个小说缺乏杰作的气势，但是不乏一个当下优秀小说家的style & taste. 文笔可圈可点，虽然有的地方有点too mouthful. 我很喜欢这个主题，相当有深度。感觉写作上应该是把很多写作笔记段落piece together, 最终定下的选角度算是一个非常clever idea. 作家的自我剖析应该是写作圈的人比较爱看的东西，在写作上也是手法多变，有点像行内人写给行内人把玩的小品。受众应该在作家(or writers-to-be)圈。

one has to reach the last few pages to be satisfied

结构明晰，内容稍有冗长。爱又战胜一切，不是么？且让他们在自己的小说里团员并不是怜悯。

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