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 评分读简爱,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《茫茫藻海》(又译《藻海无边》)是比较有名的名著前传/续篇之一。小时候就见过这本书的概要,买它来读的冲动却源于几年前一则小新闻。 《盗墓笔记》的作者南派三叔在2013年春,忽然在微博承认出轨,骂自己“人渣”,称将要离婚。这是用杀敌一万自损三千的法子逼妻子离婚啊。...
非常喜欢结尾。冷静而疯癫的视角。
评分简爱前传 气氛很阴郁 但是感觉男主的特点不鲜明
评分Being crazy is not her fault but the twisted society's, involved people's, and the era's.
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Being crazy is not her fault but the twisted society's, involved people's, and the era's.
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