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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Following the traditions of Gabriel GarcIa Marquez, John Gardner and J.R.R. Tolkien, "Wicked" is a richly woven tale that takes us to the other, darker side of the rainbow as novelist Gregory Maguire chronicles the Wicked Witch of the West's odyssey through the complex world of Oz -- where people call you wicked if you tell the truth. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin -- no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or to overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters the university in Shiz, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz' most promising young citizens. Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals -- those creatures with voices, souls and minds -- are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals -- even it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Even wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. In "Wicked," Gregory Maguire has taken the largely unknown world of Oz and populated it with the power of his own imagination. Fast-paced, fantastically real and supremely entertaining, this is a novel of vision and re-vision. Oz never will be the same again.
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 评分之所以看这本书,一开始因为迷上了同名音乐剧《WICKED》,想了解更多剧情,后来却完全被书的魅力所吸引了。 前几年的篡改童话热,带出了很多低劣的作品,而这本书里所写的,也算是童话绿野仙踪的延伸,关于桃乐丝进入欧兹国前的故事,关于那位被桃乐丝一桶水浇死的绿皮肤坏女...
评分之所以看这本书,一开始因为迷上了同名音乐剧《WICKED》,想了解更多剧情,后来却完全被书的魅力所吸引了。 前几年的篡改童话热,带出了很多低劣的作品,而这本书里所写的,也算是童话绿野仙踪的延伸,关于桃乐丝进入欧兹国前的故事,关于那位被桃乐丝一桶水浇死的绿皮肤坏女...
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...
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