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.
The most vivid and convincing reconstruction of ancient Greek life that I have ever seen. (Sunday Times)
I never learned Latin or Greek; I wasn't raised on the classics, even in translation. So all my sense of the ancient world - its values, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault. Her Theseus novels are perhaps the most exciting of her Greek fictions, and The Last of the Wine the most moving. I turned to writing historical fiction because of something I learned from Renault: that it lets you shake off the mental shackles of your own era, all the categories and labels, and write freely about what really matters to you. (Emma Donoghue)
Not since Robert Graves' I, Claudius has there been such an exciting, living image of the ancient world on this grand scale. It is a glowing work of art (New York Times Book Review)
Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us (Hilary Mantel)
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圖書標籤: MaryRenault 曆史小說 外國文學 ancient_Greek 英國 小說 曆史 Renault
雅典和斯巴達戰爭,各種哲學和政治派彆的碰撞,交織成瞭主人公的生活經曆。有意思的是,配角很多都是曆史上真實存在的人物,比如蘇格拉底,柏拉圖等等。Lysis死在這本書97%的地方,實在是太heartbreaking瞭。最後那個結局,也很有深意啊。
評分實在是太美瞭。看完Symposium之後看這個更百味交雜。最後一景是讖語,蘇格拉底飲鴆酒時身邊也是這些人... Alcibiades是此書中亞曆山大式的人物,難以想象柏拉圖會從練身館的男孩長成MoA中的哲學傢。 It is never a problem to be Demo or Oligarchy,so long as people are noble.For we know now what our hearts truly desire,and can only leave it to gods.
評分阿萊剋夏,邁倫的兒子,神聖的亞曆山大,馬其頓國王和希臘人的最高統治者的雅典騎兵隊長,師從蘇格拉底,曾與亞西比德並肩作戰,漂亮的邁倫,競技場的光榮,一生推崇民主,愛人利西斯在反叛斯巴達暴政中犧牲,阿萊剋夏在55歲狩獵中突然死去。/競技場篇太甜蜜瞭【但是我和利西斯都沒互相交談,我轉過去讓他在我胳膊上係上緞帶,我們看著對方。他的早晨為祭祀波塞鼕穿上的白鬥篷,前麵蹭滿塵土和油,他看上去那麼髒,我笑瞭起來。但是他在我耳邊輕聲說,他要把這鬥篷收起來保持原樣。我想,我現在可以死去瞭,因為諸神不會給我更大的歡樂瞭。】
評分阿萊剋夏,邁倫的兒子,神聖的亞曆山大,馬其頓國王和希臘人的最高統治者的雅典騎兵隊長,師從蘇格拉底,曾與亞西比德並肩作戰,漂亮的邁倫,競技場的光榮,一生推崇民主,愛人利西斯在反叛斯巴達暴政中犧牲,阿萊剋夏在55歲狩獵中突然死去。/競技場篇太甜蜜瞭【但是我和利西斯都沒互相交談,我轉過去讓他在我胳膊上係上緞帶,我們看著對方。他的早晨為祭祀波塞鼕穿上的白鬥篷,前麵蹭滿塵土和油,他看上去那麼髒,我笑瞭起來。但是他在我耳邊輕聲說,他要把這鬥篷收起來保持原樣。我想,我現在可以死去瞭,因為諸神不會給我更大的歡樂瞭。】
評分這套封麵都挺好看的,嘻
The Last of the Wine 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載