Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.[2] She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.[3] Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.[4]
Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents.[5] She is the Co-Founder and Director of Syngrafii Inc. (formerly Unotchit Inc.), a company that she started in 2004 to develop, produce and distribute the LongPen technology.[6] She holds various patents related to the LongPen technologies.[7]
While she is better-known as a novelist, she has published around fifteen books of poetry.[8][9] Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age.[10] Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works.
Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.
booker的这个奖很有趣,很英国,当诺贝尔越来越奥斯卡化的时候,它还保持着纯朴的疯癫精神。通过收集近些年的booker奖作品之后,发现这是个旨在奖励有趣但是无聊小说的奖项,类似中国的故事会吧。情节有趣,意义无聊或者根本就没意义。盲刺客是2000年的获奖作品,时年作者已六...
评分这是个隐晦的世界。文字提供解读方式——让世界如花瓣层层打开,或者用犀利的刀锋割开。 玛•阿特伍徳提供的方式,是两者的合一。《盲刺客》既温软又坚硬。她轻巧地将不同意象组合在一起,突兀又贴切。箭就在弦上,张力无处不在。 故事套故事的结构,是一种高...
评分我和亲爱的同事欧儿小姐窝在大图检室里,边工作边阿特伍德。 她手里的是《可以吃的女人》,我手里的是《盲刺客》。 她是个习惯一个字一个字啃书的细心女人,我是个修炼一目十行能力的抽象男人,我们在这次阅读中找到了共同点,那就是在哗哗的翻页声中大声的叹气。 这老太太太...
评分玛格丽特•阿特伍德的《盲刺客》足有600多页,在小说已经简约化和快餐化的今天,显得有些冗长。对于19世纪的人来说,小说是主要的消遣方式之一,人们也没有电视看,可以秉烛夜读;不用上班,一个冬天不出门,就可以围着火炉捧着大部头消磨时间,所以出现像《战争与和平》那样...
评分阅读盲刺客不仅仅需要充分的智力,旺盛的体力(长达624页), 还要有一颗能体察同情女性的心。不幸的是,尽管我勉强达到了前两个要求却在最后一环上有所缺失。这样半个月折腾下来,我完成的只能是一次失败的阅读。 谈到女性作家大多会套用细腻温柔之类的形容词,却似乎很...
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评分finished at this very moment! 首先,书的情节十分引人入胜,好几次我都忍不住要继续看下去(我是计划好每天看几章的),再说主题,其实Atwood的野心似乎很大,书中想说的主题很多:性别,新旧阶级,政治,战争,种族,衰老,城市与乡村等等都浓缩在Iris和Laura家族历史以及她们自己的故事。 Laura和Iris更像是一个人物的两面,一个material, more traditional, tend to conform to the rules; 另一位spiritual, more radical, always in the process of breaking conventions. 期待拍成电视剧的那一天
评分一上来就猜到了来龙去脉,全程翻白眼
评分finished at this very moment! 首先,书的情节十分引人入胜,好几次我都忍不住要继续看下去(我是计划好每天看几章的),再说主题,其实Atwood的野心似乎很大,书中想说的主题很多:性别,新旧阶级,政治,战争,种族,衰老,城市与乡村等等都浓缩在Iris和Laura家族历史以及她们自己的故事。 Laura和Iris更像是一个人物的两面,一个material, more traditional, tend to conform to the rules; 另一位spiritual, more radical, always in the process of breaking conventions. 期待拍成电视剧的那一天
评分How to understand the dead is by paper written and metaphors and hints one's knowledge covered. To remember is to show respect. When you telling the story, the dead must be your collaborator with her deplorable destiny and clandestine thinking supported like Laura. Uncontrollable Laura is the rebellious icon for freedom and independent spirit.
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