Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic, virile black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.
(unpolished random thoughts, 自己备忘用) 这本书里的很多东西后来都在GN里重复出现了,从Lessing行文的细节,一些句子的构造,段落内和段落间的tension到recurring motifs (race/gender/etc., mental illness/dreams as a freudian device, etc.). 作为一部反映“社会现实...
评分柏杨说过,“当贫穷从前门进来的时候,爱情就会从后门溜走了”。这句话虽然不能完全概括Mary的悲剧,但一切是从贫穷开始的。之所以莱辛和其他女性作家不一样,就是因为她描绘这出悲剧的时候,不是单单归结到女性的弱势,家庭的坎坷,种族的冲突上,她用自己精准的力量,...
评分柏杨说过,“当贫穷从前门进来的时候,爱情就会从后门溜走了”。这句话虽然不能完全概括Mary的悲剧,但一切是从贫穷开始的。之所以莱辛和其他女性作家不一样,就是因为她描绘这出悲剧的时候,不是单单归结到女性的弱势,家庭的坎坷,种族的冲突上,她用自己精准的力量,...
评分文笔一般。纳博科夫记得是在他的文学讲座里说过,一流作家let the course of action reveals itself,而不是显山露水地写悲愁(paraphrase, 非原句)。Domestic female + color clashes的题材屡见不鲜,读的时候常常想起Claire Denis的Chocolat。Denis本人也是在非洲长大,此...
评分Mary 可很可怜
评分我简直是太喜欢Doris Lessing的文风了
评分Kindle上看完的第一本小说 不知为何有点看到自己的影子 难过
评分Is this all? When I get to be old will this be all I have to look back on?
评分莱辛的语言平易近人
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