塞巴斯蒂安·巴里,爱尔兰著名作家,多本作品高踞英国畅销图书排行榜,2004年以小说《漫漫长路》入围布克小说将最终候选名单,2008年又以新作《秘密手稿》再度入围布克奖。
发表于2024-12-25
The Secret Scripture 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
小说开始,女主人公Roseanne McNulty已经接近100岁,是Roscommon精神病院最老的病人,也可能是整个爱尔兰最老的人。她没有亲人,没有朋友。在她即将离开这个世界的时候,她开始秘密地记录她对以前生活的记忆。她年轻的时候在一个名叫Sligo的小镇的生活。一个她描述为冷冽,阴雨...
评分当两个困守在破旧的精神病医院的老人,在病人与医生之间的相互诊断之中,通过不同的视角,分别展开了各自人生的片段。细腻流畅的叙述里,历史就在这样和人物的经历粘合在一起。一段难忘的成长记忆,一段伤心的情感生活,在与时代更替的交织着=中,展示出人性中间的善与恶。作家...
评分小说开始,女主人公Roseanne McNulty已经接近100岁,是Roscommon精神病院最老的病人,也可能是整个爱尔兰最老的人。她没有亲人,没有朋友。在她即将离开这个世界的时候,她开始秘密地记录她对以前生活的记忆。她年轻的时候在一个名叫Sligo的小镇的生活。一个她描述为冷冽,阴雨...
评分当两个困守在破旧的精神病医院的老人,在病人与医生之间的相互诊断之中,通过不同的视角,分别展开了各自人生的片段。细腻流畅的叙述里,历史就在这样和人物的经历粘合在一起。一段难忘的成长记忆,一段伤心的情感生活,在与时代更替的交织着=中,展示出人性中间的善与恶。作家...
评分“人人都不完美,比如说我,但是这并不重要,如果我们不能怀着坚定的爱来到天国的大门前,圣彼得一定不会放我们进去的。” 爱某人,爱他的不完美,爱世界,爱它的充满缺陷。不是我们盲目无知,而是勇于担当。 这是我2010年读到的最好的小说,作者一定是个深厚底蕴...
图书标签: 挣扎 Ireland 英文 文学 小说 fiction 适合安静阅读 英文原著
The acclaim that has greeted Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture is varied and enthusiastic, and it's not hard to see why. When Frank McGuiness praised it for ‘raw, rough beauty’ and described Sebastian Barry's fiction as ‘unique’ and ‘magnificent’, this claim was no hostage to fortune; just a few sentences of the prose here will convince most readers of the justice of those words. As in the best-selling A Long Long Way, Barry is concerned with the imperatives of telling a story, but in a literary form that is rich with both psychological understanding and a skilful conjuring of time and place.
Roseanne McNulty may (or may not) be on the point of nearing her 100th birthday -- but there is little certainty about this fact. In her twilight years, her destiny is uncertain, as the Roscommon Mental Hospital -- her home for so many years of her life -- is on the point of closing. As the fateful hour approaches, Roseanne spends her time of talking to her psychiatrist of many years, Dr Grene. The relationship between the two is strangely interdependent, and the doctor is also attempting to come to terms with the death of his wife. As we learn more about the two principal protagonists, we are presented with a rich and subtle picture of human relationships -- and the (often unintentional) damages that we all do to each other.
The form of the book consists of the separate journals of Roseanne and Dr Grene, and we gradually learn about Roseanne’s family in Sligo in the 1930s. What emergence is a poignant personal history; it is also a subtly ambitious picture of nothing less than the Irish psyche at a particular point in its history. There are echoes here of another great Irish chronicler of the human condition, William Trevor, and The Secret Scripture is no worse for that. --Barry Forshaw
Review
A subtle study of psychology, religion, family and politics in Ireland.This is not, as the title might suggest, another Da Vinci Code clone. Barry (A Long Long Way, 2005, etc.) writes vigorously and passionately about his native land. The story is told antiphonally, alternating narratives between a secret journal (hidden beneath the floorboard) kept by Roseanne McNulty, a patient in a mental hospital, and the "Commonplace Book" of her psychiatrist Dr. Grene, who's dealing with serious issues of grief after the death of his wife. Roseanne has always been something of an outsider, her father a cemetery-keeper and rat-catcher but most importantly a Protestant in a land largely hostile to this religious orientation. Although Roseanne remembers a happy childhood, in which she was the proverbial apple of her father's eye, he becomes involved in the political and military entanglements of Irish political life. When Roseanne grows up, she becomes the wife of Tom McNulty, but through a series of misunderstandings - as well as through the machinations of the grim-faced and soul-destroying priest, Fr. Gaunt - she is as good as accused (though falsely) of adultery with the son of a political rebel. Out of malice toward Protestants as well as out of a misplaced moral absolutism, Fr. Gaunt has her marriage annulled - and, using nymphomania to explain her "condition," has her locked up in the asylum. Dr. Grene gets interested in her story as well as her history, and in tracking down her past he finds a secret that she has kept hidden for many years, a secret that affects them both and that intertwines their families. In a final assessment of Roseanne - after she's spent decades in the asylum - Dr. Grene determines that she is "blameless." She responds: "'Blameless? I hardly think that is given to any mortal being.'" Indeed, blamelessness is a state no one achieves in this novel.Barry beautifully braids together the convoluted threads of his narrative. (Kirkus Reviews)
I wonder whether this story will be shortly made of film. Obviously this is a hot topic for oscar winning: chaos, insanity, black river and love.
评分R4 read by Doreen Keogh & Alex Jennings. The cruelty & callousness of oppressed men and women.
评分I wonder whether this story will be shortly made of film. Obviously this is a hot topic for oscar winning: chaos, insanity, black river and love.
评分R4 read by Doreen Keogh & Alex Jennings. The cruelty & callousness of oppressed men and women.
评分R4 read by Doreen Keogh & Alex Jennings. The cruelty & callousness of oppressed men and women.
The Secret Scripture 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书