When she was only twenty-three, CarsonMcCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. Shewas very special, one of America's superlativewriters who conjures up a vision of existence asterrible as it is real, who takes us on shatteringvoyages into the depths of the spiritual isolationthat underlies the human condition. This novel isthe work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers'senduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strangeyoung girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a smallSouthern town, the cosmos universal and eternal.The characters are the damned, the voiceless, therejected. Some fight their loneliness withviolence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some-- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personalsearch for beauty.
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Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.
Biography
Carson McCullers, novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, the daughter of Lamar Smith, a jewelry storeowner, and Vera Marguerite Waters. Best known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding, McCullers also won awards for her adaptation of The Member of the Wedding for the Broadway stage. After completing high school, Carson studied for two years in New York before marrying James Reeves McCullers and moving to New York permanently upon the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in 1940 when McCullers was only 23.
Heralded as a wunderkind by critics, McCullers' most significant was published between 1943 and 1950. Plagued by a series of strokes attributed to a mis-diagnosed and untreated case of childhood rheumatic fever, McCullers died at age fifty in 1967. With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, over two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children's verses, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, McCullers is considered among the most significant American writers of the twentieth-century.
Author biography courtesy of The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.
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评分初读时,我曾被书中人物的复杂性和多重性所震撼,他们绝非脸谱化的符号,而是充满了矛盾和不可预测性。你会看到善良与残忍、智慧与愚昧在同一个人身上共存,这种真实感是极其难得的。特别是对于那些边缘人物的刻画,作者给予了极大的尊重和细腻的笔触,没有丝毫的俯视或审判,只是客观而充满同情地记录他们的生存状态。我发现自己对其中几位主角的命运产生了近乎生理上的牵挂,为他们的每一次小小的胜利而感到欣慰,更为他们的持续受挫而感到深深的遗憾。这种情感上的投入,很大程度上归功于作者构建人物动机的扎实功底。每一个看似荒谬的选择背后,都有着清晰、痛苦的逻辑链条支撑。读完之后,我发现自己对“局外人”这个概念有了更深一层的理解,那不仅仅是社会地位的划分,更是一种深刻的内在精神状态。
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评分如果用一个词来形容阅读这本书的感受,那可能是“挥之不去”。它不提供廉价的安慰或简单的答案,相反,它抛出了一些关于存在、关于信仰、关于社会结构如何压抑个体自由的沉重问题,并让你带着这些问题离开书本。我特别关注作者对“希望”这一主题的处理,它从未以一种宏大、空泛的姿态出现,而是如同沙漠中的一滴露水,微小、易逝,却又足以支撑生命继续前行。这种内敛而坚韧的生命力,是这本书最打动我的地方。它拒绝了悲观主义的陷阱,尽管它描绘了大量的痛苦和误解,但字里行间流淌出的,是对生命本身那种顽固的、不屈服的肯定。这使得它成为了那种你会反复回味,并且愿意向那些寻求真正深刻文学体验的朋友们推荐的作品,因为它不只是讲述了一个故事,它还提供了一种看待世界的方式。
评分这部作品的结构处理,尤其令人赞叹,它像一幅精心编织的挂毯,无数条看似独立的线索,最终却以一种令人惊叹的、近乎宿命的方式交织在一起。起初,故事似乎散漫无章,各种背景和生活片段互相穿插,让人感觉有些迷失。但随着阅读的深入,你会开始注意到那些潜藏的呼应点——一个重复出现的意象,一句不经意间被不同角色引用的箴言,或者某个地理位置的反复出现。作者的高明之处在于,她让你在不知不觉中接受了这种非线性的叙事方式,直到最终的汇合点,那种“原来如此”的顿悟感,简直是阅读体验中最酣畅淋漓的时刻。这不仅仅是情节上的高潮,更是一种对主题的最终确认:在这个充斥着噪音的世界里,真正的连接是何其稀有和珍贵。它证明了“整体大于部分之和”这句话在文学创作中的力量。
评分Carson Mccullers, you just want her to break your heart again.
评分Southern Gothic. UM LIB.
评分one strange thing is the first reaction after finishing it---i force myself to stop thinking, or i just cannot think any more. another strange thing is that i can see a certain part of me in each one of the characters in this book.
评分Carson Mccullers, you just want her to break your heart again.
评分one strange thing is the first reaction after finishing it---i force myself to stop thinking, or i just cannot think any more. another strange thing is that i can see a certain part of me in each one of the characters in this book.
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