Wide Sargasso Sea

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		Wide Sargasso Sea
		Wide Sargasso Sea

基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton
·页码：270 页
·出版日期：1998年11月
·ISBN：0393960129
·条形码：9780393960129
·装帧：平装
·丛书名：Norton Critical Editions
·外文书名：梦回藻海

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作者简介 Jean Rhys was born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in 1894 at Roseau on the Windward Island of Dominica, and died in Exeter, England in 1979. She wrote short fiction and many novels, all published by Norton; Wide Sargasso Sea is her most famous and acclaimed work. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses.

Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."

The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."

Rhys struggled over the book, enduring rejections and revisions, wrestling to bring this ruined woman out of the ashes. The slim volume was finally published when she was 70 years old. The critical adulation that followed, she said, "has come too late." Jean Rhys died a few years later, but with Wide Sargasso Sea she left behind a great legacy, a work of strange, scary loveliness. There has not been a book like it before or since. Believe me, I've been searching. --Emily White --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The Nation
Working a stylistic range from moody introspection to formal elegance, Miss Rhys has us traveling under Antoinette's skin. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The New York Times
A triumph of atmosphere—of what one is tempted to call Caribbean Gothic atmosphere….It has an almost hallucinatory quality. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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