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...
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這個新版多瞭Simon Russell Beale的導言(而且把ralph比作alexander嚶嚶嚶我的兩大男神=_=)~封麵很符閤想像;不知何時可以把53年的未刪節版收瞭,網上看到刪減片段還是覺得53原版情節更飽滿閤理=_=
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Ralph撩人,劇情狗屎。
評分little bit more like a daydream.
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。
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