琼•狄迪恩
美国女作家、记者。生于1934年,20世纪60年代步入文坛。她在小说、杂文及剧本写作上都卓有建树,在美国当代文学领域有举足轻重的地位。2005年,琼•狄迪恩获美国国家图书奖。2007年,她又获得了美国国家图书基金会为对美国国家文学做出卓越贡献的作家颁发的年度奖章。2013年,美国政府授予琼•狄迪恩美国国家人文奖章。
主要作品有《蓝夜》《向伯利恒跋涉》《奇想之年》等。
发表于2024-12-22
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图书标签: JoanDidion 美国 英文原版 memoir 死亡 Joan_Didion 文学 美国文学
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.
Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.
Blue Nights —the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.
"Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember." --Joan Didion.
评分"shockingly frank"
评分on the death of the daughter/太多的反复,太多的呼应。回忆太长的无奈感。/我们试图相互理解,尽管总是失败。
评分“The blossoms had eventually fallen but the branches had remained, brittle and dusty, twigs breaking off, nonetheless still passing as decorative elements in the living room.”
评分从语言和思想性上来说,三星,不能再多了。读的是原版,读中文版的人不必责怪翻译,本身语言就是杂志语言。不过是一页接一页的排比,还有时不时跳出来的短语再时不时地重复。 对于衰老、死亡,没有更深入的思考来帮助自己和读者能够更加坦然地去面对 (哦对于一些读者而言,可能知道有钱人也免不了生老病死也是一种安慰吧),而只是沉浸在描绘恐惧、抗拒、失落和自怜之中。 但是,如果只从、仅仅从情感的宣泄去看,从这种宣泄给作者带去的安慰来看,写成这本书也是有价值的,但我实在看不出有什么出版的必要,尤其是在读者对于她的女儿的生活也并不好奇的情况下。就像另一个短评所说,亲人的死亡对于她 (和我们每个人) 而言当然是极大的哀痛,但对于他人而言,不过是自然的常态。 PS描绘衰老和死亡的书,中文版封面却用了作者年轻时的美照……
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