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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
If Daphne du Maurier had written only Rebecca, she would still be one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Few writers have created more magical and mysterious places than Jamaica Inn and Manderley, buildings invested with a rich character that gives them a memorable life of their own.
In many ways the life of Daphne du Maurier resembles a fairy tale. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, the daughter of a famous actor-manager, she was indulged as a child and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. She spent her youth sailing boats, travelling on the Continent with friends, and writing stories. A prestigious publishing house accepted her first novel when she was in her early twenties, and its publication brought her not only fame but the attentions of a handsome soldier, Major (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Frederick Browning, whom she married.
Her subsequent novels became bestsellers, earning her enormous wealth and fame. While Alfred Hitchcock's film based upon her novel proceeded to make her one of the best-known authors in the world, she enjoyed the life of a fairy princess in a mansion in Cornwall called Menabilly, which served as the model for Manderley in Rebecca.
Daphne du Maurier was obsessed with the past. She intensively researched the lives of Francis and Anthony Bacon, the history of Cornwall, the Regency period, and nineteenth-century France and England. Above all, however, she was obsessed with her own family history, which she chronicled in Gerald: A Portrait, a biography of her father; The du Mauriers, a study of her family which focused on her grandfather, George du Maurier, the novelist and illustrator for Punch; The Glassblowers, a novel based upon the lives of her du Maurier ancestors; and Growing Pains, an autobiography that ignores nearly 50 years of her life in favour of the joyful and more romantic period of her youth. Daphne du Maurier can best be understood in terms of her remarkable and paradoxical family, the ghosts which haunted her life and fiction.
While contemporary writers were dealing critically with such subjects as the war, alienation, religion, poverty, Marxism, psychology and art, and experimenting with new techniques such as the stream of consciousness, du Maurier produced 'old-fashioned' novels with straightforward narratives that appealed to a popular audience's love of fantasy, adventure, sexuality and mystery. At an early age, she recognised that her readership was comprised principally of women, and she cultivated their loyal following through several decades by embodying their desires and dreams in her novels and short stories.
In some of her novels, however, she went beyond the technique of the formulaic romance to achieve a powerful psychological realism reflecting her intense feelings about her father, and to a lesser degree, her mother. This vision, which underlies Julius, Rebecca and The Parasites, is that of an author overwhelmed by the memory of her father's commanding presence. In Julius and The Parasites, for example, she introduces the image of a domineering but deadly father and the daring subject of incest.
In Rebecca, on the other hand, du Maurier fuses psychological realism with a sophisticated version of the Cinderella story. The nameless heroine has been saved from a life of drudgery by marrying a handsome, wealthy aristocrat, but unlike the Prince in Cinderella, Maxim de Winter is old enough to be the narrator's father. The narrator thus must do battle with The Other Woman—the dead Rebecca and her witch-like surrogate, Mrs Danvers—to win the love of her husband and father-figure.
所有女人都不是Rebecca,但最終會否都變成Rebecca?
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闲话不扯,谈谈吕贝卡。这部小说里,一直没有出场的是她,可是一直存在于所有人心里的也是她。外人认为这个尤物无可挑剔:美丽,高贵,聪明,能干,具胆识,有魄力;可是在丈夫德温特眼中是个十足的恶魔,婊子!她能装得让所有人都看不到她的心,看不到她的放浪,可以和任...
评分长久没有读完这么厚的一本书,可是却也不觉得疲乏,反而被作者笔下那个世上唯一的曼陀丽吸引着,即使是译本,那些景色还是美得让人窒息。满墙艳丽的石南花,静谧的幸福谷,栗子树下的午茶…… 其实我不懂为什么书名要叫做Rebecca,又为什么大家说Rebecca才是真正的主角。或许...
评分 评分不会被掩埋的Rebacca ——我不信上帝信魔女 “Sometimes,when I walk along the corridor here,I fancy I hear her just behind me.That quick,light footstep.I could not mistake it anywhere.It;s almost as though I catch the sound of her dress sweeping the sta...
评分《蝴蝶梦》的原名是《吕蓓卡》。相对而言,我还更喜欢《蝴蝶梦》这个名字,女主角所经历的一切何尝不像是个梦呢,如蝴蝶般美丽,而这美丽也如同蝴蝶的生命般短暂。当然《吕蓓卡》更符合文章的中心。毕竟她虽死犹生。一直一直如幽灵般潜伏在曼陀丽的每一个角落,栖息在那儿每...
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