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.
读简爱,那个歇斯底里的女人让人觉得可憎而多余,我们没有想过她是谁,从哪里来,又为什么来到这里,与身俱来的命运,无法决定自己的归属,她平静地承受仇恨和死亡,没有童年,没有天真的希望,血液里疯狂的爱和疯狂的恨让她在无尽的折磨中烧毁了一切,那是她爱的红和热。 那个...
评分 评分这本诞生在《简·爱》之后的书是前篇故事,讲述的是被幽禁在顶楼的疯女的故事。有家族的精神病史,前半生在印度过着寄人篱下的日子,继父的疼爱使她有了一笔丰厚的嫁妆,婚后的生活变成了灾难的开始。书中的罗切斯特不是个正人君子,妻子发疯他有不可推卸的责任。
评分有多少人对简爱追求幸福的苦难历程上的那个障碍——疯女人有丝毫同情的,恐怕为数不多。在《简爱》中对她的描述共有5处,作者夏洛蒂勃朗特无一处使用褒笔,她通过简爱的眼睛和耳朵描写了疯女人“魔鬼的笑声”、“野兽般的嗥叫”、“蓬乱地似马鬃的头发”,又借罗切斯特的口...
评分好喜欢这本书 分两次读完 走不出结局带来的悲伤
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the curtain unveiled her bare heart waiting redemption. a clue of slavery to the tragedy. ultimately to whom she owe her identity?
评分好喜欢这本书 分两次读完 走不出结局带来的悲伤
评分为考试而扫读。简爱的同人小说。其实我觉得要仔细读说不定是本好书。
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