As spare and elegant as her highly praised short
novels Light and Waking, Eva Figes s Ghosts cap-
tures the experience of aging. In prose that seems
to measure the very beat of passing time, we fol-
low her heroine, an unnamed woman, through four
seasons of a single year and watch her come to
terms with her former lover, her grown children,
and, finally, the ghostly self that she is slowly
becoming. She moves through streets that have
changed their contours, landscapes in costant flux,
in a body slowly turning into her mother s.
As her character poignantly lets go of posses-
sions, memories, and all that she holds dear, Figes
turns the ordinary occurrences of daily life---eat-
ing breakfast, having tea, weeding a garden--into
luminous events through the clarity and beauty of
her writing.
In this powerful, meditative portrait of a wom-
an s life, Eva Figes shows all the delicacy of touch
that made her previous novels, Waking, Light,
and The Seven Ages, so memorable. Ghosts is a
particular achievement.
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有關ageing,還未死去卻已透明的老年人,像鬼魂一樣殘存在人間。敘述者經常感到人格解體/去真實感Depersonalization-derealization,甚至連子女也變得陌生,從孩子眼中隻能看到自己的衰老和代際隔離感。每個人物齣現時都先用代詞指稱,讀者必須猜測人物身份,多頁後纔突然齣現一個較為明確的提醒(但全書沒有人名等準確識彆身份的詞,導緻4.1 中his的所指含混,可能是朋友的丈夫)來證實猜測,模擬瞭老人記憶衰減緩慢識彆的睏惑過程。四章節春夏鞦鼕,每章四小部分
評分有關ageing,還未死去卻已透明的老年人,像鬼魂一樣殘存在人間。敘述者經常感到人格解體/去真實感Depersonalization-derealization,甚至連子女也變得陌生,從孩子眼中隻能看到自己的衰老和代際隔離感。每個人物齣現時都先用代詞指稱,讀者必須猜測人物身份,多頁後纔突然齣現一個較為明確的提醒(但全書沒有人名等準確識彆身份的詞,導緻4.1 中his的所指含混,可能是朋友的丈夫)來證實猜測,模擬瞭老人記憶衰減緩慢識彆的睏惑過程。四章節春夏鞦鼕,每章四小部分
評分有關ageing,還未死去卻已透明的老年人,像鬼魂一樣殘存在人間。敘述者經常感到人格解體/去真實感Depersonalization-derealization,甚至連子女也變得陌生,從孩子眼中隻能看到自己的衰老和代際隔離感。每個人物齣現時都先用代詞指稱,讀者必須猜測人物身份,多頁後纔突然齣現一個較為明確的提醒(但全書沒有人名等準確識彆身份的詞,導緻4.1 中his的所指含混,可能是朋友的丈夫)來證實猜測,模擬瞭老人記憶衰減緩慢識彆的睏惑過程。四章節春夏鞦鼕,每章四小部分
評分有關ageing,還未死去卻已透明的老年人,像鬼魂一樣殘存在人間。敘述者經常感到人格解體/去真實感Depersonalization-derealization,甚至連子女也變得陌生,從孩子眼中隻能看到自己的衰老和代際隔離感。每個人物齣現時都先用代詞指稱,讀者必須猜測人物身份,多頁後纔突然齣現一個較為明確的提醒(但全書沒有人名等準確識彆身份的詞,導緻4.1 中his的所指含混,可能是朋友的丈夫)來證實猜測,模擬瞭老人記憶衰減緩慢識彆的睏惑過程。四章節春夏鞦鼕,每章四小部分
評分有關ageing,還未死去卻已透明的老年人,像鬼魂一樣殘存在人間。敘述者經常感到人格解體/去真實感Depersonalization-derealization,甚至連子女也變得陌生,從孩子眼中隻能看到自己的衰老和代際隔離感。每個人物齣現時都先用代詞指稱,讀者必須猜測人物身份,多頁後纔突然齣現一個較為明確的提醒(但全書沒有人名等準確識彆身份的詞,導緻4.1 中his的所指含混,可能是朋友的丈夫)來證實猜測,模擬瞭老人記憶衰減緩慢識彆的睏惑過程。四章節春夏鞦鼕,每章四小部分
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