Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
發表於2024-03-28
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1. 從費城迴Providence,坐火車五個小時,剛好可以讀完瞭My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 正是2000年,不具名的女主角年輕、美麗、富有、哥大畢業,然而她決定要休眠一年。讀完有一點想到Taipei:都關於alienation,都trippy而冷淡、幾乎不帶情緒,像是磕high瞭看到的世界與人...
評分1. 從費城迴Providence,坐火車五個小時,剛好可以讀完瞭My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 正是2000年,不具名的女主角年輕、美麗、富有、哥大畢業,然而她決定要休眠一年。讀完有一點想到Taipei:都關於alienation,都trippy而冷淡、幾乎不帶情緒,像是磕high瞭看到的世界與人...
評分1. 從費城迴Providence,坐火車五個小時,剛好可以讀完瞭My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 正是2000年,不具名的女主角年輕、美麗、富有、哥大畢業,然而她決定要休眠一年。讀完有一點想到Taipei:都關於alienation,都trippy而冷淡、幾乎不帶情緒,像是磕high瞭看到的世界與人...
評分1. 從費城迴Providence,坐火車五個小時,剛好可以讀完瞭My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 正是2000年,不具名的女主角年輕、美麗、富有、哥大畢業,然而她決定要休眠一年。讀完有一點想到Taipei:都關於alienation,都trippy而冷淡、幾乎不帶情緒,像是磕high瞭看到的世界與人...
評分1. 從費城迴Providence,坐火車五個小時,剛好可以讀完瞭My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 正是2000年,不具名的女主角年輕、美麗、富有、哥大畢業,然而她決定要休眠一年。讀完有一點想到Taipei:都關於alienation,都trippy而冷淡、幾乎不帶情緒,像是磕high瞭看到的世界與人...
圖書標籤: 小說 女性 美國 英文原版 美國文學 成長 Ottessa-Moshfegh 英文
夏天離職時同事送的臨彆禮物,斷斷續續到今天終於讀完。
評分不太懂作者想錶達什麼,但是很喜歡她的文字。
評分最後一頁突然so sad
評分Brutal and brilliant. Moshfegh engages the reader without affecting mawkish indulgence. She doesn’t shy away from, but attacks the repository of the dark, the weird, and the toxic. This is Seroquel in literary dosage, sufficient enough to plunge you into a deep, liberating slumber.
評分傢庭冷暴力的成長環境,反復無常的男友,離世的雙親,對參與社會太過積極的朋友…最精彩的是最後幾十頁,真正的hibernation以簡單一句get rid of something作為對過往總結而開始。確實,有時候最general就是最確切,這些超齣常人承受範圍的涼薄與殘忍隻能用something來概括。全書就是描述一種在主觀意願占主導的空洞,並不是一種單純的消極避世心理,而是在各種情緒觀感慢慢退化後自己選擇性與世界脫節的空洞,這是空洞也是自救。彆人人眼中的浪費對於她來說隻是重新洗洗底牌而已,I’m blonde pretty and young, 這個社會的入場券對這樣的人來說從來不會過期。Harvard Bookstore bestseller #4
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載