Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was a Dublin-born writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 2001 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
发表于2024-11-24
The Sea, The Sea 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
篇幅极长的日记体作品,以主角查尔斯的视角展开所有的情节,包含他个人所有的情感、心理活动、随性的幻想和对所有出现人物的看法。因为没有上帝视角,读者仿佛附身于查尔斯身上,一起在海边小楼独自生活,一起遭遇了生活中离奇的经历。前面部分基本就是记录一下查尔斯远离城市...
评分这是一部很有看头的作品,甚至看得让人有些迷惑。 “我”是一个独身退休的导演,搬到一个海边的别墅想静静地生活,同时也在写着近似回忆或者日记的东西(应该是写完了,这点比《伪币制造者》要好)。可是退休的生活却并不平静。 故事围饶着“我”退休之后的感情朋...
评分I am quite interested in Iris Murdoch and her book--expecting to read the English version of this novel.
评分 评分I am quite interested in Iris Murdoch and her book--expecting to read the English version of this novel.
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The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and dwell in seclusion in a house by the sea. Whilst there, by an extraordinary coincidence he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and totally outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic ideals is at the heart of the novel. After the farcical and abortive kidnapping of Mrs. Fitch by Arrowby, he is left to mull over her rejection in an enjoyably self-obsessional and self-aggrandising manner over the space of several chapters. "How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality... Yes of course I was in love with my own youth... Who is one's first love?"
始终回味,最喜爱
评分同是破魔宝典, 为什么这一本比楞严经更美呢?
评分同是破魔宝典, 为什么这一本比楞严经更美呢?
评分除去太多重复的心理活动,其他部分看得很过瘾。醉酒时说的关于Uncle Peregrine的故事是我的第一个爆笑点;之后大家聚在Shruff End,怎么全世界都来这了?!全程对食物的认真记述也是个让人忍俊的笑点。前面不可靠叙述中的Charles自负可恨,认清自己后略显可怜了,谁不是活在自己的主观臆断里洋洋自得呢。
评分Wake up, Charles Arrowby!
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