Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She's best known for her novels and her literary journalism.
Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year’s Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.
This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”
牵手几十年的老伴先行一步,唯一的爱女身染重病,曾经的幸福让主人公无法专注于最后的人生之旅,在回望和记录家庭琐事中获得安宁。 相同的命运和写作背景让很多人以为,美国琼·狄迪恩的《充满奇想的一年》和杨绛的《我们仨》是悼念亡者的姊妹篇。事实上,前者更着力于...
评分她失去了挚爱一生的丈夫。 她有力的哀恸。却没有夸张。没有虚饰。没有。 而这几日猛然发现,起码我所接触到的圈子里包括自己,都曾一度或仍然容易夸大情绪。那种"虚假的甜蜜的想像"。用了大量的形容词来描绘荣耀,获得,爱情,和失去。 我仔细的阅读八月...
评分什么东西是你拼了命去珍惜,却还是留不住的?是亲人的生命。什么事情是你死磕都无法阻挡其发生的?是死别之后的丧恸。-莲花素手 经历过至爱亲人离世的人,也许都有过一种对于死亡的感知,从混沌到拒绝,从避讳到接受,都是一场巨大的心理世界的动荡,用海啸和地震来形容都不为...
评分就这样一直想念 ——读《充满奇想的一年》 魏东(www.igovm.com) 一 生,不是一件能够容易描述的事情。 死,同样如此,死亡的可怕在于死前对死亡不知何时到来的恐惧,死亡的可怕更在于死后身边人久久不能挥去的哀伤。 一段时间来突然对死亡之一话题感了兴趣,也就想起了《...
评分牵手几十年的老伴先行一步,唯一的爱女身染重病,曾经的幸福让主人公无法专注于最后的人生之旅,在回望和记录家庭琐事中获得安宁。 相同的命运和写作背景让很多人以为,美国琼·狄迪恩的《充满奇想的一年》和杨绛的《我们仨》是悼念亡者的姊妹篇。事实上,前者更着力于...
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评分“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." “We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
评分让我想到了杨绛的《我们仨》...喜欢那段对grief的心理学描述:“波状产生的躯体痛苦,每次持续20分钟到一个小时,感觉喉咙发紧,气短,想叹气,腹部有空感,肌肉乏力,强烈的主体压抑。”
评分For once in your life, let it go. -- Finished reading them on one of the stay-up nights. Couldn't get sleep because of some stupid allergy. It's so damn easy for me to understand the feelings between the words. Feeling like I experience everything with Didion for the long yesteryear. We fall in love and we depart. Thank you for everything.
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