The Postman Always Rings Twice

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James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892–October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir."

He was born into an Irish Catholic family in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a prominent educator and an opera singer. He inherited his love for music from his mother, but his high hopes of starting a career as a singer himself were thwarted when she told him that his voice was not good enough.

After graduating from Washington College where his father, James W. Cain served as president, in 1910, he began working as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun.

He was drafted into the United States Army and spent the final year of World War I in France writing for an Army magazine. On his return to the United States he continued working as a journalist, writing editorials for the New York World and articles for American Mercury. He also served briefly as the managing editor of The New Yorker, but later turned to screenplays and finally to fiction.

Although Cain spent many years in Hollywood working on screenplays, his name only appears on the credits of three films, Algiers, Stand Up and Fight, and Gypsy Wildcat.

His first novel (he had already published Our Government in 1930), The Postman Always Rings Twice was published in 1934. Two years later the serialized, in Liberty Magazine, Double Indemnity was published.

He made use of his love of music and of the opera in particular in at least three of his novels: Serenade (about an American opera singer who loses his voice and who, after spending part of his life south of the border, re-enters the States illegally with a Mexican prostitute in tow), Mildred Pierce (in which, as part of the subplot, the only daughter of a successful businesswoman trains as an opera singer) and Career in C Major (a short semi-comic novel about the unhappy husband of an aspiring opera singer who unexpectedly discovered that he has a better voice than she does).

He continued writing up to his death at the age of 85. His last three published works, The Baby in the Icebox (1981), Cloud Nine (1984) and The Enchanted Isle (1985) being published posthumously. However, the many novels he published from the late 1940s onward never quite rivaled his earlier successes.

出版者:Vintage
作者:James M. Cain
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頁數:128
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出版時間:1989-5-14
價格:USD 13.00
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9780679723257
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An amoral young tramp.A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband.A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir . It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger .

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讀後感

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“不,咱们心心相印,没有哪个第三者插得进来。我爱你,科拉。可是,爱要是与恐惧掺杂在了一起,就不再是爱,而是恨了。” “我想是守在一块儿了,不过我昨儿晚上想了很多,弗兰克,想到你和我,还有电影,以及我为什么突然变啦,廉价小餐馆和四处流浪,你为什么喜欢它们。咱...  

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我看见你了,我一定要把你搞到手,我跟你相爱了,我们就是去杀人也要在一起,我们终于在一起了,你却死了,然后我也得死。 这就是当年的超级畅销小说,詹姆斯•M•凯恩的《邮差总按两次铃》。语言平实,近乎白描,倒也符合内容——人物目的明确,行动直达欲望中心...  

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这本曾被选为二十世纪百部最佳的英语小说,取材一起真实的谋杀案。一个汽车旅馆的老板(希腊人),被自己的妻子伙同情夫(旅店雇员)谋杀。小说的情节略为夸张,角色怪诞有趣。爱害人是那种幸运儿和糊涂虫的合体,第一次谋杀竟然没能把他杀死,也没能引起他的警觉。第二次谋杀...  

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庭審和最後的轉摺還不錯,這本書非常口語化,偏粗野,黑暗冷硬的寫作風格,有點不像是犯罪小說,不是我喜歡的類型。

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標題黨~

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結尾很難說沒有受到Roy Horniman在1907年齣版的那部驚艷四方之Israel Rank的影響。前半平淡無奇至趣味盡失的情節中途起急轉直下,緊密的交鋒高潮迭起,至篇末更是點睛之筆。

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電影+小說

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一開始不喜歡cain的語言風格,但看完後覺得這個狗血的故事確實用他這種不加過多修飾、不用過多形容詞,不煽情的冷冽文字寫齣來纔夠漂亮。這纔叫做愛恨交織,生不如死,死也不能解脫的悲劇……讀到後麵一直在冷笑,但與其說是笑書中的人物,不如是在笑我們自己,你無法否認的是,這就是人類啊,最普通的人類的悲劇……

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