Jean Rhys (originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were published during the 1920s and 1930s, but it was not until the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 that she emerged as a significant literary figure. A "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea won a prestigious WH Smith Literary Award in 1967.
Rhys was born in Dominica (a formerly British island in the Caribbean) to a Welsh father and Scottish mother. She moved to England at the age of sixteen, where she worked unsuccessfully as a chorus girl. In the 1920s, she relocated to Europe, travelling as a Bohemian artist and taking up residence sporadically in Paris. During this period, Rhys lived in near poverty, while familiarising herself with modern art and literature, and acquiring the alcoholism that would persist throughout the rest of her life. Her experience of a patriarchal society and feelings of displacement during this period would form some of the most important themes in her work.
发表于2025-02-03
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转一篇很好的引 邊緣女性的愛生與死恨 ─Jean Rhys的「克里奧反殖」文學」 我必須保留我身上最貴重的東西:我對自由的興趣 西蒙•波娃(Simone de Beauvoir),《回憶錄》 女性必須把自己寫進本文,通過自己的奮鬥把自己嵌入世界和歷史 埃萊娜·西蘇(Hélène Cixo...
评分《茫茫藻海》(又译《藻海无边》)是比较有名的名著前传/续篇之一。小时候就见过这本书的概要,买它来读的冲动却源于几年前一则小新闻。 《盗墓笔记》的作者南派三叔在2013年春,忽然在微博承认出轨,骂自己“人渣”,称将要离婚。这是用杀敌一万自损三千的法子逼妻子离婚啊。...
评分I should have given a 5 but due to the horrible translation presented.... honestly I hate Jane Eyre for its both realistic and fantasy. But IT IS these features that also presented in this book attracts me. I read it about three years ago so I don't really...
评分极爱极爱这本后殖民主义时期小说,喜爱程度大大超越简爱。作者里斯是在英属殖民地长大的克里奥白人,据说青少年时第一次读到简爱里的克里奥疯女人便十分吃惊,想要有一天能够还原这个克里奥疯女人。里斯想要表达的内容繁杂,但是融合穿插得巧妙,把克里奥人介于有色人种和英国...
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Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.
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评分我咋不是特别喜欢这种阴森森的感觉
评分Jean Rhys-the alienated women and men-Creole 结尾实在是有点虐
评分(1966) R4 read by Adjoa Andoh & Adam Godley. 更觉得简爱难得了,自爱独立好学,不怪男主喜欢。这本就是白富美的诉苦,一点也不动人。这性格还不遭人嫌弃//这两个作者知不知道纵火是性犯罪呢
评分好喜欢这本书 分两次读完 走不出结局带来的悲伤
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