Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."
Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, VQR, Conjunctions, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Michener-Copernicus Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
开篇她写,有一个概念archival silence. 档案记录的沉默与空白,一些个体和群体的经验在这种空白里消失,被清除、忽视、遗忘:这种沉默是一种语言的失去。 Carmen Maria Machado是我最喜欢的当代短篇小说家之一。这一本回忆录围绕她遭遇的来自自己同性伴侣的暴力——她把这段关...
评分In the process of recounting her experience in an abusive lesbian relationship, the author occasionally cites a folklore motif in the footnote, suggesting a particular episode of her story has overlap with a common folkloric paradigm. The book is an authent...
评分First of all I view this book as a fairy tale containing many modern elements. So it does have a traditional fairy tale background, where a women who is rather imperfect and vulnerable meets a gorgeous---- mostly man in other stories----woman. It reminds me...
评分In the process of recounting her experience in an abusive lesbian relationship, the author occasionally cites a folklore motif in the footnote, suggesting a particular episode of her story has overlap with a common folkloric paradigm. The book is an authent...
评分In the process of recounting her experience in an abusive lesbian relationship, the author occasionally cites a folklore motif in the footnote, suggesting a particular episode of her story has overlap with a common folkloric paradigm. The book is an authent...
这本书读来很痛。它是作者对曾经的一段激情但又充斥暴力与痛苦的同性亲密关系的回溯。它是非虚构的,是碎片式的,是一个人从外到内被摧毁后自我重建的一种尝试。它也只能是非虚构的,因为那种经验太过深刻以至于无法转化,太过切近以至于无法抽离。它也只能是碎片式的,因为那些对自我的厌弃、怀疑和否定,那些在伴侣熟睡的脸庞上望见的无尽黑暗与深渊,那些在本该是安全舒适的私密空间中喷涌的残酷与暴烈,在漫长的岁月里,像细小的尘埃,如影随形。这本书读来也很有力量。作者找到了描述痛苦的正确语言,进而创造了安放痛苦的恰当居所。于是过往的痛苦在此处,可以观看但不用于猎奇的展示,可以回味但不陷于无休止的自怜自艾。它构成了作者个体生命必不可少的组成部分,也构成性少数群体被噤声的历史上一句响亮的呐喊。
评分我们queers也是人,当然也会PUA和家庭暴力。夹叙夹议,语言优美而脆弱,但还是感觉叙事得星星点点、铺垫不太够,令人有些感同身受,但又有些支离破碎、进展有些突然(可能也是篇幅小的缘故)。可能是回忆录的原因,女主的视角非常限定,所以显得女朋友就像一个没有心的神经病和怪物。我写文章时也常常这样,丰沛地表达自己的视角和情感,以及对周围人言行的无措和不解,对身边的信息感到很passive、overwhelmed。我最近渐渐觉得这其实是作者本身不大能观察和分析预测和总结周围人行为语言和性格的缘故,换句话说就是有点self-focused、情商比较一般。我也想提高一下。
评分喜欢作者解构这个题材的方式,很有启发性和想象力。文本语言缺点儿灵气。
评分琐碎到甚至像在读微博合集。那些破碎的情绪和零散的事件,一点一点构成 Dream House 里的那个她。选择逃离的过程是痛苦的,可只有切断过去才会迎来新来的开始。queer 也是普通人
评分"Dream House as Choose Your Own Adventure". No matter what you choose though, you're trapped in this abusive relationship and there's no lighter alternative. Carmen Maria Machado is brilliant.
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