具体描述
Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
作者简介
Elena Ferrante is the author of seven novels, including four New York Times bestsellers; The Beach at Night, an illustrated book for children; and, Frantumaglia, a collection of letters, literary essays, and interviews. Her fiction has been translated into over forty languages and been shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. In 2016 she was named one of TIME's most influential people of the year and the New York Times has described her as "one of the great novelists of our time." Ferrante was born in Naples.
目录信息
读后感
About Elena, -“ever since I was a child I had constructed for myself a perfect self-repressive mechanism. Not one of my true desires had ever prevailed, I had always found a way of channeling every yearning, now enough. I said to myself, let it all explode...
For Elena: the book should be mediocre if Elena is depicted in an affectionate way, and it is the reflecting and deploring tone that makes this girl sincere, flawed yet display her own goodness. When we read this novel, we must not omit the brilliance of th...
正如前两部：我的天才女友、新名字的故事，那不勒斯四部曲的第三部----那些离去与留下的，书名就引起我们足够的好奇：谁离开？离开谁？读完前两部的读者，必然会被第一部“天才女友”莉拉的个性吸引，留下深刻的印象，因为作者用平实又坦诚语言，对莉拉的观察与刻画。不仅如此...
About Elena, -“ever since I was a child I had constructed for myself a perfect self-repressive mechanism. Not one of my true desires had ever prevailed, I had always found a way of channeling every yearning, now enough. I said to myself, let it all explode...
用户评价
老实说，这本书的节奏感是极具挑战性的，它并非一气呵成，而是充满了停顿、重复和对某一瞬间的反复拉伸。在前三分之一的篇幅中，故事推进得极为缓慢，大量的内容集中在人物的内心独白和对往事的回忆上，这无疑是对耐心的一种考验。我差点因为这种“慢热”而放弃，但庆幸自己坚持了下来。一旦进入中段，那些铺陈已久的情感和事件终于开始爆发，而且爆发的方式是如此具有戏剧张力，让人瞬间理解了之前所有看似冗长的铺垫的必要性。这本书的魅力就在于，它迫使你放慢速度，去细品那些在快节奏小说中会被忽略的微小情绪波动。它像一部需要慢放才能看清细节的慢动作镜头，最终呈现出的那种爆发力，是建立在对细节的极致积累之上的。这是一种成熟的、敢于挑战主流阅读习惯的叙事策略，最终的回报是丰厚且令人震撼的。
我必须承认，这本书的文字风格是极其独特且富有冲击力的，它不像某些现代文学那样追求简洁和效率，反而大量使用了那种古典的、略显冗长的句式，营造出一种史诗般的厚重感。这种风格乍看之下可能会让习惯了快节奏阅读的读者感到些许滞涩，但一旦适应了它的节奏，便会发现其中蕴含的巨大能量。作者对环境和氛围的描写达到了近乎感官体验的程度，无论是炎热夏日里尘土飞扬的小镇，还是阴雨连绵中弥漫的紧张气息，都仿佛能被读者真切地触摸和呼吸到。这种对“在场感”的极致追求，使得书中的世界拥有了令人信服的真实性。但这种沉浸感也带来了一个挑战：人物之间的对话有时显得过于程式化，仿佛是为了承载某些既定的主题而服务，少了那么一丝日常生活的松散和偶然性。尽管如此，这种雕琢的痕迹最终服务于它想要达成的悲剧性或宿命感，使整部作品在艺术上保持了一种高度的统一性。
从主题的角度来看，这本书探讨的核心议题非常尖锐，它没有提供任何简单的答案，而是将“留下”与“离开”这两个看似对立的概念，置于一个复杂的伦理光谱中进行审视。作者似乎在质问：忠诚的代价是什么？个人良知与集体期望之间，界限又在何处？我发现自己经常在读到某个关键情节时停下来，深思自己如果处于那个境地，会做出怎样的选择。这种强烈的代入感，使得这本书超越了单纯的小说范畴，更像是一部关于道德困境的深度研究。书中对权力结构的解剖也颇为老辣，它揭示了在特定社会环境下，那些被奉为圭臬的准则，是如何在私下面前土崩瓦解，或者又是如何以一种更隐蔽、更具压迫性的方式继续施加影响。这并非是一本读起来让人感到愉悦的书，它要求读者直面人性的幽暗面，但正是这种不回避的勇气，使其具有了持久的价值。
这本书的叙事结构简直是一部精妙的织锦，它没有采用那种线性的、按部就班的叙事方式，而是像河流的分叉与汇合，将不同角色的命运编织在一起，让人在阅读的过程中，不断地在过去的回忆和当下的抉择之间穿梭。作者对于人物心理的刻画细腻入微，那种在重大历史转折点上，个体所经历的迷茫、挣扎与最终的顿悟，被描绘得淋漓尽致。我尤其欣赏那种留白的处理，很多关键性的情感爆发点，作者只是轻轻带过，将解读的空间完全留给了读者，让每一次重读都能发掘出新的层次。这种叙事手法，无疑要求读者具备一定的耐心和对文本深度的敏感度，但一旦沉浸其中，那种被故事完全掌控的感觉，是其他许多流畅易懂的作品所无法比拟的。它不是那种读完就能一笑了之的书，更像是一个需要反复咀嚼的哲学思辨，每一个看似不经意的细节，都可能指向对人性、社群关系乃至更宏大命题的深刻反思。整个阅读体验是沉静而又暗流涌动的，就像在平静的湖面下，能感受到巨大的水流在推动着一切向前。
这本书的群像塑造能力令人赞叹，虽然焦点可能集中在几位核心人物身上，但围绕着他们出现的配角们，即使只占据了很少的篇幅，也个个栩栩如生，绝无脸谱化之嫌。每个次要角色都有其清晰的动机和无法言说的秘密，他们的存在不是为了推动主角的剧情，而是共同构筑了一个真实且多维度的社会生态。例如，那位总是保持沉默的邻居，或是那个看似开明实则固执的权威人物，他们的每一次出现，都像是往一潭平静的水中投入了一块小石子，激起的涟漪复杂且持久。作者对不同年龄层和不同社会阶层的个体心态拿捏得极其精准，能够让不同阅历的读者都能在其中找到共鸣的切片。这种群像描写的丰富性，使得阅读过程充满了发现的乐趣，仿佛你不是在阅读一个预设的故事，而是在观察一幕真实的历史正在发生，每个人都在按照自己的逻辑进行着无声的抗争或顺从。
看完三本到现在最喜欢，风云变幻的时代与人物。一如既往的细腻心理多了几分深度，正合逐渐成熟的主人公。
怎么能用这么直白的语言写出这么好看的流水账呢
长得有些受不了，细节太多了，自我剖析太多了，看完感觉能量很低
满满一本 Elena 坦诚的自私和罪过，而她真的有主动关心过 Lila 吗。正是应了那句话，为表达的情绪不会消失，有朝一日它会以更丑陋的方式展现出来。
功力比第二部提升太多，小人物与大历史结合的完美呈现。PS：有多少读者在阅读过程中感觉被Nino冒犯了
