Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was a Dublin-born writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 2001 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and dwell in seclusion in a house by the sea. Whilst there, by an extraordinary coincidence he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and totally outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic ideals is at the heart of the novel. After the farcical and abortive kidnapping of Mrs. Fitch by Arrowby, he is left to mull over her rejection in an enjoyably self-obsessional and self-aggrandising manner over the space of several chapters. "How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality... Yes of course I was in love with my own youth... Who is one's first love?"
艾丽丝.默多克是“全英国最聪明的女人”。作为维特根斯坦的女弟子,她的哲学修为就很深,著有《存在主义与神秘主义》等。而“存在主义”则是她第一部小说《在网下》的主题,成熟的写作技巧和深刻的思考,让这部处女作取得惊人的成功。此后,艾丽丝以独特的风格成熟的思考叱咤英...
評分I am quite interested in Iris Murdoch and her book--expecting to read the English version of this novel.
評分这是一部很有看头的作品,甚至看得让人有些迷惑。 “我”是一个独身退休的导演,搬到一个海边的别墅想静静地生活,同时也在写着近似回忆或者日记的东西(应该是写完了,这点比《伪币制造者》要好)。可是退休的生活却并不平静。 故事围饶着“我”退休之后的感情朋...
評分I am quite interested in Iris Murdoch and her book--expecting to read the English version of this novel.
評分艾丽丝.默多克是“全英国最聪明的女人”。作为维特根斯坦的女弟子,她的哲学修为就很深,著有《存在主义与神秘主义》等。而“存在主义”则是她第一部小说《在网下》的主题,成熟的写作技巧和深刻的思考,让这部处女作取得惊人的成功。此后,艾丽丝以独特的风格成熟的思考叱咤英...
Wake up, Charles Arrowby!
评分Wake up, Charles Arrowby!
评分除去太多重復的心理活動,其他部分看得很過癮。醉酒時說的關於Uncle Peregrine的故事是我的第一個爆笑點;之後大傢聚在Shruff End,怎麼全世界都來這瞭?!全程對食物的認真記述也是個讓人忍俊的笑點。前麵不可靠敘述中的Charles自負可恨,認清自己後略顯可憐瞭,誰不是活在自己的主觀臆斷裏洋洋自得呢。
评分i like the Charles-womanizer-drown-in-first-love,這是書看瞭一半的結論;看完之後:突然為Charles感到無比嘆息;為James心生敬意;生命是一場由欲望導演的幻覺;一場瘋狂的營救,失去瞭什麼又找迴瞭什麼;Charles,我在你身上找到瞭太多自己的影子,不自知,不珍惜,一生做瞭嫉妒和過於自信的奴隸
评分1978 edi. sick
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