Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Laurie's schoolboy days, suddenly reappears in Laurie's life, and draws him into a tight-knit social circle of world-weary gay men. Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience.
Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature.
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當你在鋼筋水泥的建築中冥視那些歡快跳躍的小動物們,我的內心隻能不斷告誡自己寬容是一種能力。然而空氣中充滿腐爛的絕望,不論悲傷還是快樂。我這個充滿適應性的靈魂,為什麼卻沒有勇氣去照照鏡子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
評分當你在鋼筋水泥的建築中冥視那些歡快跳躍的小動物們,我的內心隻能不斷告誡自己寬容是一種能力。然而空氣中充滿腐爛的絕望,不論悲傷還是快樂。我這個充滿適應性的靈魂,為什麼卻沒有勇氣去照照鏡子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
評分當你在鋼筋水泥的建築中冥視那些歡快跳躍的小動物們,我的內心隻能不斷告誡自己寬容是一種能力。然而空氣中充滿腐爛的絕望,不論悲傷還是快樂。我這個充滿適應性的靈魂,為什麼卻沒有勇氣去照照鏡子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
評分當你在鋼筋水泥的建築中冥視那些歡快跳躍的小動物們,我的內心隻能不斷告誡自己寬容是一種能力。然而空氣中充滿腐爛的絕望,不論悲傷還是快樂。我這個充滿適應性的靈魂,為什麼卻沒有勇氣去照照鏡子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
評分當你在鋼筋水泥的建築中冥視那些歡快跳躍的小動物們,我的內心隻能不斷告誡自己寬容是一種能力。然而空氣中充滿腐爛的絕望,不論悲傷還是快樂。我這個充滿適應性的靈魂,為什麼卻沒有勇氣去照照鏡子呢?Should I find a wicked runt with congenitally short neck and receding...
圖書標籤: 瑪麗·瑞瑙特 小說 英國文學 LGBT 英國 外國文學 MaryRenault 文學
無與倫比地具象化瞭人的精神世界,筆下人物的情感如同看得見綫條的引力場,細膩哀傷。它無意展現時代全景,隻是時間洪流中某些特定時刻、特定人群的橫斷麵,確實像快照(snap shot)。Laurie這個角色是挺不討喜的,感覺跟她的寫法有關,也不全是設定問題,相較於幾乎彌漫全書的與Ralph之間那種濃墨而非重彩的情感張力,他和Andrew之間的感情反倒顯得朦朧而寡淡,也使他最終的選擇難免顯得缺乏情感邏輯,Ralph則完美得有些失真。全書看下來,最喜歡的人物竟是Alec,看到他最後對Laurie說“用用你的腦子,如果你還有的話”,竟感到莫名的解氣,最後就連Bunny都感覺壞得真實,我一定是沒有get到瑪麗奶奶的深意。
評分細膩充滿文藝範的作品。英倫風格語係讀起來感覺還是要花費些心神來領略其中的那些小情場、小糾結。過程雖然麯摺,可究竟結局時一切都歸於美好。
評分細膩充滿文藝範的作品。英倫風格語係讀起來感覺還是要花費些心神來領略其中的那些小情場、小糾結。過程雖然麯摺,可究竟結局時一切都歸於美好。
評分這篇真的很晦澀,看評論有提到這版有刪節,不知道是不是因此影響瞭閱讀
評分奶奶的文筆沒得說,很多不甚齣奇的場景在她的筆下都美好得如詩如畫。然而Laurie這個角色實在是越看越不討喜,後來甚至連Andrew也變得麵目模糊起來,到最後隻希望Ralph不要重新接受Laurie,因為覺得他根本就不值得。有意思的是,Laurie誤會Ralph故意挑釁瞭Andrew,而Ralph則誤會Alec把他的私事透露給瞭Bunny,人們會錯怪會傷害的果然還是自己不夠愛卻深愛自己的人啊。
The Charioteer 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載