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.
不做标题党,因为此书本身并不吸引我,高中时的闲暇佐料,甚至不能满足我的基本温饱~ 写评语是因为发现看过这本书的人少到个位数,出于半吊子的自豪感,来抹个字~ 给的评价是在豆瓣的第一个四星,或者我们都比较苛刻,对那些不在正统路上的都不给正眼。 我不知道作者构思写作...
评分不做标题党,因为此书本身并不吸引我,高中时的闲暇佐料,甚至不能满足我的基本温饱~ 写评语是因为发现看过这本书的人少到个位数,出于半吊子的自豪感,来抹个字~ 给的评价是在豆瓣的第一个四星,或者我们都比较苛刻,对那些不在正统路上的都不给正眼。 我不知道作者构思写作...
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。
评分作为<简爱>的前传,看的时候十分的痛心,很心疼Antoinette这个小姑娘。她就是<简爱>中人见人恨的疯女人。在这里成了女主角,童年的孤单与小小的欢乐,刚获得微小的幸福即被排山倒海的痛苦淹没,一遍一遍在梦境与现实间转换,十几年的囚禁生涯,的都化作熊熊的烈火,这一生,比...
评分作为<简爱>的前传,看的时候十分的痛心,很心疼Antoinette这个小姑娘。她就是<简爱>中人见人恨的疯女人。在这里成了女主角,童年的孤单与小小的欢乐,刚获得微小的幸福即被排山倒海的痛苦淹没,一遍一遍在梦境与现实间转换,十几年的囚禁生涯,的都化作熊熊的烈火,这一生,比...
Jean Rhys-the alienated women and men-Creole 结尾实在是有点虐
评分企鹅系列丛书 简·爱前传 最近在努力的读
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(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Jean Rhys的文字简洁而生动,比中文版更有感觉一些。对于后殖民时代的加勒比这一历史背景的处理也很赞。说来理查德箭头史密斯先生的品味真是诡异(爆)。
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