When Lady Slane was young, she nurtured a secret, burning ambition: to become an artist. She became, instead, the dutiful wife of a great statesman, and mother to six children. In her widowhood she finally defies her family. Her children, all over sixty, have planned for her to spend her remaining days quietly, as a paying guest of each of them in turn. Much to their dismay, Lady Slane rents a small house in Hampstead and chooses to live independently, free from her past. She revels in her new-found freedom, living the life she forfeited seventy years earlier to the conventions of a Victorian marriage, and attracts an odd assortment of companions. Among them is Mr FitzGeorge, an eccentric millionaire who met her in India, when she was very young and very lovely?.?.?. First published in 1931, All Passion Spent is the fictional companion to her friend Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
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A widow of the gentry casting her mind back to the oldest dream of being a painter counterpoints a single old man moaning over a separation from his gay partner (in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man). The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Will I have the backbone to dig up the past in my declining years? Say No.
評分讀的是vintage2016年齣的版本。確是好書。譯書是精讀,因喜愛此書,已將其盡數自譯為中文,方得領略,其語言之流暢優美,恰如一首夕陽贊歌;意識流片段讀來毫不晦澀,似有一種力量,牽引著讀者與女主共同追憶。薇塔當是一位自知並知世甚深的女子,且明瞭兼深信自然之力,並不懷有影響或改變世界的雄心,不過安為自己,創造風景,也活成一道風景。
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評分忘記標注瞭,藉知己之力方能窺得此書深意,重復多讀不枉好友自譯。
評分讀的是vintage2016年齣的版本。確是好書。譯書是精讀,因喜愛此書,已將其盡數自譯為中文,方得領略,其語言之流暢優美,恰如一首夕陽贊歌;意識流片段讀來毫不晦澀,似有一種力量,牽引著讀者與女主共同追憶。薇塔當是一位自知並知世甚深的女子,且明瞭兼深信自然之力,並不懷有影響或改變世界的雄心,不過安為自己,創造風景,也活成一道風景。
All Passion Spent 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載