拉德克利夫·霍尔(1880-1944),英国现代著名女诗人、作家。其父亲为英国人,是莎士比亚女儿一族的后裔,母亲为美国人,是十六至十七世纪著名的印第安公主玛托阿卡的后裔。霍尔生于英格兰,早年以诗闻名,其中有些被谱成歌曲,广为流传。她一生共出版诗集五部、长篇小说六部,并多次获得各种奖项,但其中最为著名的就是描写同性恋的长篇小说《孤寂深渊》。因为其本人就是一位具有男性心理、意向和行为的同性恋者,所以这部作品也可称为作者一生传奇经历和不平等遭遇的真实再现。
Book Description
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. It was banned for obscenity in 1928. It became an international bestseller, and for decades was the single most famous lesbian novel.
From Booklist
Hall (1880-1943) was legendary in her own time--or infamous, some might say--for her fifth novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928). The book was banned for obscenity because its main character is a lesbian, and it subsequently became a notorious best-seller, thrusting Hall into a literary rogues' gallery of fame. Cline uses previously unexplored material to create a biography of the now largely forgotten author that portrays the dense interrelationship of her writings, her childhood, and her friends and loves. Hall called herself by three names: Marguerite, the name with which she had been christened and which she hated, given as it was by the mother she despised; John, her chosen name, which she used among her associates; and Radclyffe, her pen name. The three often enigmatic selves these names indicated formed her public and private personae. The roots giving rise to her international lesbian best-seller are traceable to her early adolescent loves as well as her affairs with married sculptor Una Troubridge and many others--matters that Cline presents in a lively and readable style.
Whitney Scott
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Heather Downey
The Well of Loneliness is a path-breaking novel. Published by Radclyffe Hall herself in 1928, it was immediately banned in Britain due to its lesbian theme and was allowed in the United States only after a long court battle. Once it was available, The Well of Loneliness sold more than 20,000 copies its first year and paved the way for other works with lesbian themes. The novel concerns a girl born into a wealthy English family at the turn of the century and named Stephen by her father who desperately wanted a boy. Practically from birth, Stephen is described as "different," yet while Radclyffe Hall delivers the powerful message that lesbianism is natural, she also asks the reader to have pity on Stephen Gordon, for, along with the popular psychoanalysts of her day, Radclyffe Hall describes lesbianism as an "inversion." The "terrible mark of Cain" compels Stephen to forsake the woman she loves to protect her from a life of ostracism. This message, along with Radclyffe Hall's portrayal of lesbians in stereotypical "butch" and "femme" roles, caused the book to be written off by feminists in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In addition, many readers today may find the language long-winded and the characters one-dimensional, with the exception of the thinly-veiled portrait of the author as Stephen Gordon. Nonetheless, The Well of Loneliness is worth reading because it shattered the silence of oppression and conveys a message about homophobia and internalized shame relevant to lesbians even today.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
“上帝啊……起来保卫我们吧,承认我们……也把我们生存的权利给我们!” 《孤寂深渊》有些令我失望。实话说,在我看来霍尔没有什么写作天赋,据说在她活着的时候,所受到的尊敬远多于赞赏。我想这是对的,人们出于对她的真诚和勇气的钦佩,而记住了她的名字,这种纪念实际...
评分 评分作为全世界女同小说的滥觞,此书长达四十万字,生动展现出女主作为先天女同的成长困惑,淋漓尽致表现了拉拉之间“情感至上”的纯爱,不愧是“女同圣经”,的的确确有阅读价值。虽然不必要的描写太多,翻译也算不上精妙,从文学水准来看它算是1.5流。 身为读者,我经历了一份不...
评分有段时间,将手头的书籍整理并翻阅,留下很深印象的是这本由英国作家拉德克利夫•霍尔著,于文静译,内蒙古人民出版社2001年出版发行的《孤寂深渊》。 书中详细叙述了一位名叫斯蒂芬的女人艰难的一生,关于她与生俱来的孤独,她的学习与写作,她的成长与成熟,她...
评分同性恋是不是都有些性别倒错,否则为什么会爱上同性? 同性恋是不是基因出现了“异常”,否则怎么会只对同性有兴趣? 同性恋是对的还是错的? 同性恋是天生的还是后天的? 同性恋应该存在么? 我们应该对同性恋有什么看法? 如果有可以改变同性恋的技术,我们应该强迫这种技术...
从小时候讲起得什么时候讲到搞对象啊。
评分偷偷摸摸讀完的
评分My Stephen, try to feel the nearly imperceptible vibration of the overblown petals. Then you can sense my ripples of chill. Your Mary has her lair. So has mine. Sad.
评分刚开始很乏味,越到后面越精彩,一群边缘群生活的群体。绝对是有作者自己的影子的。文笔不是太优美,心理刻画甚好。唯一一本读完以后能把全部剧情和人物都叙述出来的小说,有点厚
评分百合名作,但是不好看,价值观问题也极其巨大,作者甚至亲法西斯。
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