Normal People

Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, The White Review, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Kevin Barry's Stonecutter and The Winter Page anthology. Her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was the most popular debut in the 2017 end-of-year round-ups. Rooney was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Mr Salary' and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.

出版者:Faber & Faber

作者:Sally Rooney

页数:288

出版时间:2018-8-30

价格:GBP 14.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780571334643

图书标签:小说SallyRonney爱尔兰文学爱尔兰英国文学英文原著文学英文原版

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.

This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.

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60%的故事冲水到100%。描写很细腻，但跟《聊天记录》同出一辙重复自我：细腻敏感的女主通过其聪明与反复让本身儒弱的男性形象更显矛盾。不过相比《聊天记录》与《I Love Dick》通过投射男性来完成“女性权利的颠覆，《Normal People》隐藏了两性的博弈，转化为青年一代的情绪锁套。

Marxist痴迷的阶级对比，Connell在小镇上万人迷，到了Dublin立刻被打回原型，十八线县城高考状元到了超一线大城市瞬间迷失的感觉，Marianne open-minded有钱人小地方受尽冷眼，到了大城市富人圈中如鱼得水。特别喜欢Sally Rooney对复杂心理的compartmentalization。

爱的难题在于没有哪种爱能否定另外一种爱，但love kills love。

人格预设，女孩富有阴郁独立，男孩贫穷阳光开朗，都学习好。接下来就是展开，写作方法太极简，明目张胆摘取人生片段对话和心理来推进故事，加入的性受虐和抑郁的“复杂”心理，让Normal的主题也不太Normal了。初看之下，觉得是英国安妮宝贝，其实压根就没看过安妮宝贝，也可能是周嘉宁或者张悦然？不过太好读了，是真的，故事突然截止在一次可以预见的分别，这算啥？

这就是我的故事。前半段阅读被和好又疏离的互相虐待迷住，似乎对应着我自己对承诺的畏惧和在感情中的虚无。睡一觉起来感受又不同了，后半段更关注他们是如何去be normal，什么是正常的爱（友情、爱情和家庭）呢? sally rooney 火起来不是没有道理，终于有人来讲我们的生活了。喜欢她非线性的讲述方式，也很喜欢结尾，在两个人的人生刚刚开始的时候结局，他们注定又要分别再相聚，如此重复下去 还有关于她Marxism.的立场也引来挺多关注的