Girl with a Pearl Earring

出版者:Large Print Press

作者:Tracy Chevalier

页数:283

出版时间:2001-1-1

价格:USD 12.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781568951867

具体描述

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The Dutch painter Vermeer has remained one of the great enigmas of 17th-century Dutch art. While little is known of his personal life, his extraordinary paintings of natural and domestic life, with their subtle play of light and colour, have come to define the Dutch Golden Age. The mysterious portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has fascinated art historians for centuries, and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.

Girl with a Pearl Earring centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmoil as Vermeer and Griet become increasingly intimate, an increasingly tense situation that culminates in her working for Vermeer as his assistant, and ultimately sitting for him as a model. Chevalier deliberately cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style in homage to Vermeer, and the complex domestic tensions of the Vermeer household are vividly evoked, from the jealous, vain, young wife to the wise, taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic, but Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist in its tail. Chevalier acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study of the Dutch Golden Age, The Embarrassment of Riches, and the novel comes hard on the heels of Deborah Moggach's similar tale of domestic intrigue behind the easel of 17th-century Dutch painting, Tulip Fever.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, but how much more can novelists extract from the Dutch Golden Age? --Jerry Brotton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

作者简介

特蕾西·雪佛兰（Tracy Chevalier）1962出生于美国华盛顿，1984年迁居英格兰。1994年获得英国东安哥拉大学创意写作硕士学位。处女作《纯蓝》一举获得史密斯文学奖年度新人奖；《堕落天使》引起了世人的普遍关注。《戴珍珠耳环的少女》是雪佛兰备受赞誉的代表作，将她归入伟大作家的行列。其作品多以旧时女子试图突破环境限制、改变自身命运为主题，细腻敏锐，缠绵悱恻，意味幽远。

雪佛兰才一个心愿是要赏遍维梅尔存世真迹。她从欣赏《戴珍珠耳环的少女》真迹中得到灵感，以维梅尔创作此画为核心，巧妙地镶嵌进了画家另外重要名画，以细腻的笔触与独到的视点，刻画出画家与妻子及少女之间的复杂关系，将一出伤魂恨情幽幽展开……

读后感

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