Jean Rhys (originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were published during the 1920s and 1930s, but it was not until the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 that she emerged as a significant literary figure. A "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea won a prestigious WH Smith Literary Award in 1967.
Rhys was born in Dominica (a formerly British island in the Caribbean) to a Welsh father and Scottish mother. She moved to England at the age of sixteen, where she worked unsuccessfully as a chorus girl. In the 1920s, she relocated to Europe, travelling as a Bohemian artist and taking up residence sporadically in Paris. During this period, Rhys lived in near poverty, while familiarising herself with modern art and literature, and acquiring the alcoholism that would persist throughout the rest of her life. Her experience of a patriarchal society and feelings of displacement during this period would form some of the most important themes in her work.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.
极爱极爱这本后殖民主义时期小说,喜爱程度大大超越简爱。作者里斯是在英属殖民地长大的克里奥白人,据说青少年时第一次读到简爱里的克里奥疯女人便十分吃惊,想要有一天能够还原这个克里奥疯女人。里斯想要表达的内容繁杂,但是融合穿插得巧妙,把克里奥人介于有色人种和英国...
评分非常精妙的文本,后半部分,他和她以及他和老女佣的对话语带双关,充满了弦外之音,读者可自行解读成其它关系。 在有关男人和女人,殖民者和被殖民地,强者和弱者的故事里,there's always the other side, always。 书里对西印度群岛的风光描写充满魅力,美,孤独,灵性。故...
评分 评分 评分I should have given a 5 but due to the horrible translation presented.... honestly I hate Jane Eyre for its both realistic and fantasy. But IT IS these features that also presented in this book attracts me. I read it about three years ago so I don't really...
这两年里都一直在读的书目,要么是热衷于宏大叙事、居高临下指点江山的史诗,要么是不断变着花样反映人对抗命运荒谬感的戏剧,中间穿插着各种虽写着追求plain-speaking和clarity,却老是走regarding others with post-mortem coldness and respect/regarding themselves with a kind of objective admiration两头极端的专著和批评,简直极为自然地顺着男性作家的话语体系一路下去,几乎完全忘掉了读一本女性视角的小说该是什么感受。极其不适应的阅读体验,被书中细密的情绪和气氛裹挟,如同被海藻缠绕脱身不得。心情郁塞,吃不下晚饭。
评分非常喜欢结尾。冷静而疯癫的视角。
评分(1966) R4 read by Adjoa Andoh & Adam Godley. 更觉得简爱难得了,自爱独立好学,不怪男主喜欢。这本就是白富美的诉苦,一点也不动人。这性格还不遭人嫌弃//这两个作者知不知道纵火是性犯罪呢
评分Being crazy is not her fault but the twisted society's, involved people's, and the era's.
评分五味杂陈,一个从小生活在夹缝中的克里奥姑娘,因为混血身份,被同样无辜的白人和黑人恣意恨着,无心战斗,想要逃离,试图抓住爱情这最后一根稻草,却偏偏又坠入另一场精心设计的阴谋。帝国、男权加上人们对异己的恐惧,造就了女主的precarious sense of belonging,多次寻求救赎无果,最终所有的虚妄都被I付之一炬。
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