Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 在线电子书 图书标签: 小说 美国 女性 fiction 文学 当代文学 奇幻 外国文学
发表于2025-02-07
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格雷戈里·马奎尔(Gregory Maguire,1954年6月9日-)一直致力于推广儿童文学,并从1978年开始为儿童创作童话故事。
1995年,马奎尔以经典童话《绿野仙踪》里的反派人物“西方坏女巫”为主角,创作了他第一本面向成年人的小说《魔法坏女巫》。“我们现在所看 到的历史,都是胜者写的。”马奎尔以“西方坏女巫”为契机,为长大成人的我们创作了一系列以经典童话中的“坏人”为主角的奇幻小说,挑战“胜者”视角下早已为人所熟知的故事。
《魔法坏女巫》在出版8年后被改编为音乐剧,在纽约百老汇与伦敦西区热演至今,获奖无数;《魔法坏女巫》小说也已跻身世界级畅销书行列,成为20世纪经典奇幻小说之一。
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If you can find a better bang for the buck than Wicked, please let me know. I picked up Wicked, knowing nothing except that its subject matter was the Wicked Witch of the West, to be drawn immediately into Maguire's splendidly imagined world of sentient animals, multiple societies, and unique physical laws. Wicked is an enthralling, great read, hugely entertaining. On top of all this, Maguire has Bradbury's gift for creating atmosphere. The pages are heavy with dark, mysterious magic; its moral laws are ultimately incomprehensible.
Apparently doomed at conception, Elphaba is a truly terrifying infant. Razor-toothed and preternaturally intelligent, she is shunned from birth as a freak and a curse. She is nonetheless the tale's most complex, human, and compelling character, possessed of high moral sense and great courage. But neither of these qualities enables a single one of her brave, ethical actions to succeed. What are we to conclude from this?
How is it that Dorothy, the sturdy little nobody from nowhere who committed manslaughter as she landed in Oz, skips down the Yellow Brick Road impervious to danger while Elphaba strives and plots to reap only negative results?
Why is one protected while the other is doomed? Read Wicked and you will learn how the witch's monkeys became winged, where the rubies for those slippers came from, and, indeed, why the witch's skin was green. But you will wrestle, long afterward, with Maguire's moral pessimism and the snarl of grace and doom that underlies this novel. I know I will.
这是一本"恶搞"经典童话的书. 内容似乎是对一个经典儿童童话的成人化演绎, 其实是通过对一个表面皆大欢喜的故事探讨了人性,社会等不可规避的非完美存在. 内容表现的大都是现实人生的"大"话题, 种族歧视;集权统治;爱恨,亲情,友谊和背叛;追求真实的代价;执著信仰的代价;生存的...
评分虽然是奉命读了这本书,里面的GRE词汇真的是drive me crazy啊。 如果不忙还想重读一遍。现在心来说下粗略的感受。日后还会更新。 其中很多的细节描写都透露这美国的文化,通常,读者郭敬明的小说,看看那样的文字就能够想象得到那种意境,我感觉书中也有一种意境透过所有的细节...
评分有时候回想起儿时曾极为推崇的童话《青鸟》和《绿野仙踪》,意外地会感到结尾充满了恶意:为什么主人公们一路奔波奋斗,去往希望之地以求梦想实现,却总会发现终点并没有什么可以称为幸福?童话里所谓“幸福就在身边”的真谛,似乎也可以翻转过来理解——既然最美好的事物就存...
评分当年被一首勇气十足的Defying Gravity吸引,喜欢上音乐剧《魔法坏女巫》。后来听说原著小说即将出版,自是非常关注。 很幸运,能成为国内首版《魔法坏女巫》的第一批读者。正如作者格雷戈里•马奎尔本人所说,与音乐剧“绝处逢生”的欢乐基调不同,《魔法坏女巫》的原著小说...
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