Meet My Folks!

出版者:Faber and Faber; 2nd Revised edition edition

作者:Ted Hughes (Author)

页数:61 pages

出版时间:27 April 1987

价格:£3.99

装帧:paperback

isbn号码:9780571136445

具体描述

Ted Hughes's first children's book. It is dedicated to Frieda, Sylvia's and Ted's then newly born daughter. It is a book of heavily-rhyming poems in which Hughes describes imagined family members. Over the years Meet My Folks! has undergone revision in that poems where added to and dropped from it. Thus, the first American edition has the additional poems »My Uncle Mick«, »My Aunt Flo«, »My Granny« and »My Own True Family« while »My Grandpa« and »Grandma« have been dropped. The Faber paperback edition has the additional poem »My Fairy Grandmother«.

作者简介

Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.

In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.

In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.

目录信息

Table of Contents
Meet My Folks
Note: Several versions of this book exist, all with slightly different contents. The 1987 edition is the most complete.
1961 Edition
"I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem)
My Sister Jane
My Grandpa
Grandma
My Brother Bert
My Aunt
My Uncle Dan
My Mother
My Father
1973 (American Edition)
"I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem)
My Sister Jane
My Granny (new in 1973 ed. = My Other Granny in later eds.)
My Brother Bert
My Aunt Dora (= My Aunt)
My Aunt Flo (new in 1973 ed.)
My Uncle Dan
My Uncle Mick (new in 1973 ed.)
My Mother
My Father
My Own True Family (new in 1973 ed.)
1977 Edition
"I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem)
My Sister Jane
My Fairy Grandmother (new in 1977 ed.)
My Grandpa
Grandma
My Other Granny (= My Granny)
My Brother Bert
My Aunt (= My Aunt Dora)
My Uncle Dan
My Uncle Mick
My Mother
My Father
My Own True Family
1987 Edition
"I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem)
My Sister Jane
My Fairy Grandmother
My Grandpa
Grandma
My Other Granny (= My Granny)
My Brother Bert
My Aunt (= My Aunt Dora)
My Aunt Flo
My Uncle Dan
My Uncle Mick
My Mother
My Father
My Own True Family
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读后感

Note: Several versions of this book exist, all with slightly different contents. The 1987 edition is the most complete. 1961 Edition "I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem) My Sister Jane My Grandpa Grandma My Brother Bert My Aunt My Un...

Note: Several versions of this book exist, all with slightly different contents. The 1987 edition is the most complete. 1961 Edition "I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem) My Sister Jane My Grandpa Grandma My Brother Bert My Aunt My Un...

Note: Several versions of this book exist, all with slightly different contents. The 1987 edition is the most complete. 1961 Edition "I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem) My Sister Jane My Grandpa Grandma My Brother Bert My Aunt My Un...

Note: Several versions of this book exist, all with slightly different contents. The 1987 edition is the most complete. 1961 Edition "I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem) My Sister Jane My Grandpa Grandma My Brother Bert My Aunt My Un...

Note: Several versions of this book exist, all with slightly different contents. The 1987 edition is the most complete. 1961 Edition "I've hear so much about other folks folks" (opening poem) My Sister Jane My Grandpa Grandma My Brother Bert My Aunt My Un...

用户评价

这部作品成功地营造了一种独特的、挥之不去的“怀旧的忧郁感”，但这种情绪并非源自对过去美好时光的简单缅怀，而更像是对“时间流逝”这一不可抗拒的物理定律的深刻哀叹。作者通过对日常物品的细致描绘，成功地将过去与现在编织在一起，使读者强烈地感觉到，每一个物件——一把生锈的钥匙、一个残缺的瓷杯、一首被遗忘的摇篮曲——都承载着无法挽回的时间重量。这种忧郁是内敛的，它不诉诸泪水或激烈的争吵，而是通过一种弥漫在空气中、难以言喻的“失落感”渗透出来。读完之后，你不会因为某个角色的命运而激动落泪，但你会发现自己在接下来的几天里，会不由自主地放慢动作，更仔细地观察身边平凡事物的细节，心中隐约有一种对自身存在短暂性的恍惚感。这是一种深刻的、形而上的情感体验，它要求读者不仅要理解故事，更要与作者共同承担对“存在”的沉重感知。

语言的质感是这本书最鲜明的烙印，它具有一种令人难以抗拒的、几乎是巴洛克式的繁复美感。作者似乎迷恋于使用那些在现代文学中已经罕见的、极具历史感的词汇和句式结构。句子往往很长，充满了复杂的从句和嵌套的修饰语，读起来仿佛在品尝一坛陈年的、层次极其丰富的葡萄酒，你需要时间来让每一种香气和回味充分展开。我特别欣赏作者对“光线”和“阴影”的描绘，他不像是在描述视觉现象，更像是在描绘一种形而上的存在状态。比如，他对午后阳光穿过百叶窗投射在地板上的几何图案的描述，可以占据整整一页篇幅，每一个光束的边缘、每一块阴影的深度都被赋予了哲学意义。这种对词语的雕琢，使得这本书的阅读过程成为了一种对语言本身美学的朝圣，但这也必然带来一个副作用：阅读速度被大幅度拖慢，每一次翻页都感觉像是在完成一次精细的古籍修复工作。

故事的结构安排大胆得近乎反主流。它完全抛弃了传统叙事中明确的“冲突—高潮—解决”三段式布局。整部作品读下来，最大的感受是“事件的稀疏性”。主要的转折点往往不是通过激烈的对话或戏剧性的行动来实现的，而是通过一种潜移默化的氛围变化悄然完成的。我印象最深的是，关于那个家族秘密的核心矛盾，直到全书的四分之三处才以一种近乎耳语的方式被揭示出来，而且揭示的方式不是通过某个人物的坦白，而是通过一张被遗忘在旧相册角落里的一张褪色的明信片。这种对“戏剧性”的刻意规避，使得作品的张力完全建立在“等待”和“未言明”之上。这对我来说是一次非常新颖的体验，它强迫你关注那些被日常生活中忽略的微小信号，但同时也意味着，如果你期待那种酣畅淋漓的叙事释放，你可能会感到极度受挫，因为它似乎更倾向于让问题悬置，让读者自己去完成最后的拼图和情绪的释放。

这本书的叙事节奏简直是教科书级别的慢热。开篇花了大量的篇幅去描绘主人公童年居住的小镇的地理风貌和历史沿革，这种详尽到近乎偏执的细节堆砌，让我一度怀疑我拿到的不是小说，而是一部地方志。比如，作者花了整整三页纸来描述镇上那棵百年老橡树的年轮纹理和它所经历的每一次雷击，这对于推进核心情节来说，似乎是完全不必要的冗余。读者需要极大的耐心才能穿过这层厚厚的背景描写，到达人物首次登场的那一刻。不过，一旦你适应了这种沉静的、近乎散文诗般的笔触，你会发现作者在这些看似无关紧要的描述中埋下了许多伏笔，关于小镇居民的某种集体潜意识和对外界的疏离感，这种铺陈带来的后劲是惊人的，只是，对于追求快节奏阅读体验的读者来说，前一百页无疑是一场严峻的考验，需要极高的专注力和对“环境即角色”这一理念的深刻认同才能坚持下来，否则很容易在那些雾气弥漫的清晨和重复的集市场景中迷失方向。

从文学技巧的角度来看，作者对内心独白的运用达到了令人咋舌的复杂程度。它不像我们常见的心理活动描写那样直白地揭示人物的动机或情感状态，而是更像是一张由意识流构成的错综复杂的网。人物的想法是跳跃的、非线性的，充满了大量的象征和隐喻，有时候甚至需要反复阅读才能捕捉到潜藏在句子结构背后的真实情绪。例如，主角在面对一个关键抉择时，他的“想法”并不是清晰的“A或B”，而是不断地在回忆起儿时丢失的一枚玻璃弹珠、一个不合时宜的歌剧片段，以及一种对某种特定气味（像是潮湿的泥土和陈年书籍混合的味道）的反复追溯中摇摆不定。这种写法极大地增加了阅读的挑战性，但也赋予了角色一种令人信服的、混乱的真实感。你不是在“读”一个角色的想法，你更像是“潜入”了他们那永不停歇的大脑的涡流之中，体验那种思绪的拉扯和自我审视的折磨，这要求读者也必须投入同等的精力去解码这些晦涩的内部语言。