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.
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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這本誕生在《簡·愛》之後的書是前篇故事,講述的是被幽禁在頂樓的瘋女的故事。有傢族的精神病史,前半生在印度過著寄人籬下的日子,繼父的疼愛使她有瞭一筆豐厚的嫁妝,婚後的生活變成瞭災難的開始。書中的羅切斯特不是個正人君子,妻子發瘋他有不可推卸的責任。
評分 評分 評分 評分極愛極愛這本後殖民主義時期小說,喜愛程度大大超越簡愛。作者裏斯是在英屬殖民地長大的剋裏奧白人,據說青少年時第一次讀到簡愛裏的剋裏奧瘋女人便十分吃驚,想要有一天能夠還原這個剋裏奧瘋女人。裏斯想要錶達的內容繁雜,但是融閤穿插得巧妙,把剋裏奧人介於有色人種和英國...
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雖然算是個同人文 但是還是想說羅切斯特這個渣男。。。
評分很多作者在想要寫一個“獨立自主的強勢女性”非常自然而然的就寫成一個神經不太正常的瘋女人,好像女人隻有在感情驅動下纔會有動力。好像瘋狂就是“個性”。討厭這種書。
評分好喜歡這本書 分兩次讀完 走不齣結局帶來的悲傷
評分為考試而掃讀。簡愛的同人小說。其實我覺得要仔細讀說不定是本好書。
評分i hate jane eyre now i know the reason
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