From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw thei...
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year’s Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.
This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”
作者简介
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Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She's best known for her novels and her literary journalism.
Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
Acquisition of information and self-analysis would go a long way, but actully one can not get through of the pain and loss, just day by day live with it.
原文首发在公众号：新京报书评周刊 “Please help me to die...help me live to die.” 我在一个心理治疗师的学术讨论会上。我们几个人围坐在一起，我们是一个分享的学习小组。我右手对面的的心理治疗师忽然说，她曾有一个来访者来的时候已经93岁了，这个老人坐在咨询室的...
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* Note: This is an assignment essay for the course of 'British and American Essays', edited by the course instructor. -------------- I felt like I had been punched in the stomach reading the dedication page of The Year of Magical Thinking: “This book is f...
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1 有用 依然笑眯眯 2022-08-29 12:10:27 美国
I get the sadness and grief and all that... but isn't it a little too repetitive?
0 有用 Mr.Mc 2011-08-14 18:24:36
回忆浓浓
0 有用 LisaLeung 2020-01-03 11:37:42
Acquisition of information and self-analysis would go a long way, but actully one can not get through of the pain and loss, just day by day live with it.
1 有用 soupirdujour 2015-05-01 16:53:22
文献综述文风
16 有用 牛蚂沥 2013-12-31 14:49:13
无感。作者自我意识过剩，分析伤痛，分析回忆，完了还在一直不停分析自我。文章各种意义上的流水账，充满了我完全无法引起任何共鸣的细节，读的时候老感觉这本书其实就是作者为了发泄感情而写，如同日记。不知道magical thinking到底magical在哪儿。还不如叫做《丧夫日记》比较确切一些。我懂回忆是由碎片构成，也不是说我反感细节，但是没有强烈的、读者熟悉的情感支撑，陌生的细节只会更陌生。像死亡这样... 无感。作者自我意识过剩，分析伤痛，分析回忆，完了还在一直不停分析自我。文章各种意义上的流水账，充满了我完全无法引起任何共鸣的细节，读的时候老感觉这本书其实就是作者为了发泄感情而写，如同日记。不知道magical thinking到底magical在哪儿。还不如叫做《丧夫日记》比较确切一些。我懂回忆是由碎片构成，也不是说我反感细节，但是没有强烈的、读者熟悉的情感支撑，陌生的细节只会更陌生。像死亡这样宇宙通用的话题，却被作者埋在一堆过于细节化的流水账里，对于悲伤的科学研究里，对于自我的分析里。但也不是完全找不到同感，读的时候常常思绪一飘万里，觉得我认识的有些人虽然没死，但是我们之间的关系基本上就像他死了一样……不过话说回来，没有经历过失去（甚至得到？！）的我可能从最开始就没有跟作者站在一起。 (展开)