In Eugenides' first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex (2002), English major and devotee of classic literature Madeleine Hanna is a senior at Reagan-era Brown University. Only when curiosity gets the best of her does she belly up to Semiotics 211, a bastion of postmodern liberalism, and meet handsome, brilliant, mysterious Leonard Bankhead. Completing a triangle is Madeleine's friend Mitchell, a clear-eyed religious-studies student who believes himself her true intended. Eugenides' drama unfolds over the next year or so. His characteristically deliberate, researched realization of place and personality serve him well, and he strikes perfectly tuned chords by referring to works ranging from Barthes' Lovers' Discourse to Bemelmans' Madeline books for children. The remarkably à propos title refers to the subject of Madeleine's honors thesis, which is the Western novel's doing and undoing, in that, upon the demise, circa 1900, of the marriage plot, the novel 'didn't mean much anymore,' according to Madeleine's professor and, perhaps, Eugenides. With this tightly, immaculately self-contained tale set upon pillars at once imposing and of dollhouse scale, namely, academia ('College wasn't like the real world,' Madeleine notes) and the emotions of the youngest of twentysomethings, Eugenides realizes the novel whose dismantling his characters examine."
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.
Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Greek and Irish descent. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School. He took his undergraduate degree at Brown University, graduating in 1983. He later earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford University.
In 1986 he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for his story "Here Comes Winston, Full of the Holy Spirit". His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation directed by Sofia Coppola. The novel was reissued in 2009.
Eugenides is reluctant to appear in public or disclose details about his private life, except through Michigan-area book signings in which he details the influence of Detroit and his high-school experiences on his writings. He has said that he has been haunted by the decline of Detroit.
Jeffrey Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, the photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi, and their daughter. In the fall of 2007, Eugenides joined the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.
His 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Ambassador Book Award. Part of it was set in Berlin, Germany, where Eugenides lived from 1999 to 2004, but it was chiefly concerned with the Greek-American immigrant experience in the United States, against the rise and fall of Detroit. It explores the experience of the intersexed in the USA. Eugenides has also published short stories.
Eugenides is the editor of the collection of short stories titled My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead. The proceeds of the collection go to the writing center 826 Chicago, established to encourage young people's writing.
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今年关于读书的计划,是把100本的配额种,挪一些到长篇小说中,那么少看一些互联网方法论,设计知识和工作方法。空余时间久这么多,而这样的取舍完全值得。 去年底看完了《斯通纳》,那种对人生的高度自省态度,很震撼。接着看评论,说《斯通纳》和《源泉》很像,讲的都是“固...
评分今年关于读书的计划,是把100本的配额种,挪一些到长篇小说中,那么少看一些互联网方法论,设计知识和工作方法。空余时间久这么多,而这样的取舍完全值得。 去年底看完了《斯通纳》,那种对人生的高度自省态度,很震撼。接着看评论,说《斯通纳》和《源泉》很像,讲的都是“固...
评分进入2016年四个月之后,终于遇到了今年第一本“对的书”。读一本对的书的过程,就像终于和一个懂你的人进行一次长谈。交谈的对象不仅理解你的立场,甚至还能给你更深层的启发。读虚构人物的故事却更加了解自己,这是一件如此奇妙而美好的事情。 当看到我最隐秘的内心世界被半...
评分今年关于读书的计划,是把100本的配额种,挪一些到长篇小说中,那么少看一些互联网方法论,设计知识和工作方法。空余时间久这么多,而这样的取舍完全值得。 去年底看完了《斯通纳》,那种对人生的高度自省态度,很震撼。接着看评论,说《斯通纳》和《源泉》很像,讲的都是“固...
评分Marriage Plot did not color the time it populated in my life. Dogeared pages number less than 5, meaning things that I want to potentially revisit - is worthy of revisting - is low. It's a breezy read, which was not expected since so lauded (said to belong ...
坦白说,我对这种偏向“知识分子气质”的小说总是抱有一丝警惕,生怕它沦为故作高深的堆砌辞藻。然而,这本书完全颠覆了我的预期。它的智慧是内敛的,是服务于故事和人物情感的,而不是凌驾于其上的。我注意到作者对不同代际间价值观念冲突的处理非常巧妙,没有简单地将一方塑造成“落伍”或“天真”,而是展现了每一种选择背后的合理性与局限性。那种跨越时间和地域的文化引用,处理得极其自然流畅,读起来毫无阅读障碍,反而为故事增添了丰富的文化厚度。它让我重新思考了“成功”的定义,在充斥着“效率至上”的当下,这种对慢思考、对深度连接的坚持,显得尤为可贵。我甚至会时不时地停下来,去查阅书中提及的那些艺术作品或历史事件,每一次延伸阅读,都让这本书的世界观更加饱满。
评分读到一半的时候,我几乎想把它合上,不是因为它不好,而是因为它太“真”了。这种“真”不是那种直白的、口号式的真实,而是一种渗透在每一个场景、每一段内心独白中的、难以言喻的氛围感。作者似乎拥有某种魔力,能将那些晦涩难懂的哲学思辨,巧妙地融入到角色的日常琐事中去。比如,他们讨论一本晦涩难懂的书,或者只是在一家昏暗的咖啡馆里点单的那个瞬间,思想的重量便悄然降临。我特别欣赏作者对于环境描写的笔触,那种光影的流动、季节的更迭,都与人物心境形成了微妙的共振。这使得整本书的质感非常高级,不是那种快餐式的阅读体验,而是需要你放慢呼吸,去品味每一个词语背后的层次。它更像是一部由优秀独立电影导演执导的作品,注重留白,懂得在不言说中传递最大的力量。
评分如果用一个词来形容这本书带给我的感受,那可能是“共鸣的涟漪”。它不是那种能在你读完后立刻总结出中心思想的读物,它的影响是慢性的,会随着时间的推移,在你不经意间浮现出来。比如,某天我在处理一个复杂的职场人际关系时,忽然想起了书中某个角色处理类似困境的方式,那种豁然开朗的感觉,是阅读带来的最高奖赏。作者对于社会环境的观察入木三分,那种对时代精神的捕捉,细腻到让人脊背发凉——我们似乎都在用特定的方式“表演”着自己的人生,而这本书撕开了那层薄薄的表演外衣,露出了底下的脆弱与真实。它不迎合读者的期待,它挑战你的期待,让你不得不去思考:你所追求的,真的是你想要的吗?这是一次酣畅淋漓的思想洗礼。
评分这部作品给我的触动是深远的,它不像那种情节跌宕起伏的畅销小说,反而更像是一次对人性的温柔解剖。作者对于人物内心世界的刻画细腻到令人发指,尤其是那些潜藏在日常对话之下的犹豫、渴望与自我欺骗。我花了很长时间才从书中走出来,因为它迫使我重新审视自己生命中那些被轻易忽略掉的“小决定”——正是这些看似微不足道的选择,最终塑造了我们成为今天的模样。书中关于理想主义与现实妥协的探讨,尤其是在艺术追求与生活责任的拉锯战中,那种无力感和挣扎,让我感同身受。它没有提供廉价的答案,而是把问题抛给你,让你自己去面对镜子里的自己。文字的节奏感把握得极其精准,时而如涓涓细流般平缓,时而又在关键时刻猛然加速,让你措手不及。读完之后,我有一种被熨帖又被刺痛的双重感受,仿佛进行了一次漫长而诚实的自我对话。
评分这本书的叙事结构像一个精密的钟表,每一个齿轮都在恰当的位置上咬合,推动着故事向前,但前进的步伐又带着一种令人安心的从容。我最欣赏的是它对“成长”这个宏大主题的微观处理。它没有落入那种主人公历经磨难后实现惊天逆袭的俗套,而是捕捉到了成长的本质——即不断地修正自我认知,接受自身的局限性,并学会与那些未竟的遗憾和解。书中几对人物关系的张力处理得极为出色,那种爱而不得的酸楚,以及因为理解不足而产生的隔阂,都被描绘得入木三分。每一次误会和每一次尝试沟通,都像是在走钢丝,充满了令人窒息的紧张感,但最终导向的,却是更深刻的、带着伤痕的连接。这让我感到非常安慰,因为生活本身就是如此,充满了不完美的交集。
评分one of the worst books that i have ever read. Please don't waste ur time on it
评分三颗半,后面50%少了前半部的趣味……后半部分靠黄色情节才撑下去的嘛……
评分有趣
评分对维多利亚婚姻文学的致敬与反讽, 对恋爱婚姻关系的解构。这本书实在是太过文艺,书里人张口闭口都是符号学大师和费里尼,读着没有工作前景的liberal arts major,用文艺和故作深沉滋养着自己精神上的病征。前大半部简直令人惊异,与《荒人手记》类似,充斥了各式各样的信息,仿佛人们并不生活在自己的一日三餐中,而是在思想、感性、知识间跃动和穿梭一样,好似吃了迷幻剂的多动症患儿。读书的时候总是惊异于作者的细腻,为什么能够这样充沛地感受和描述那种自我催生出来的悲剧感、痛感呢?难道作者也是个自恋而自虐的人嘛:变着法子令自己感受痛苦,期待着痛苦,又在痛苦中肝肠寸断,又在这种肝肠寸断中感觉自己实在是爱得深切。“我真是一个伟大的人啊,背负着这样巨石般沉重的爱。”Kitsch而自恋的人这样叹息道。
评分三颗半,后面50%少了前半部的趣味……后半部分靠黄色情节才撑下去的嘛……
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