VOYAGE IN THE DARK

Book ID/图书代码： 12100005B11932

English Summary/英文概要： ’It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known’, says Anna, 18 years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone, and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. It is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys’s hauntingly simple and beautiful style.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十九岁的少女安娜来自加勒比海，是一个在英国城市间巡回演出的合唱团歌手。 她狐独而无助，留在了冷酷、充满敌意的伦敦城。 她的美貎和天真，让她迅速成为这个城市中"坤士"的猎物和祭品--但她相信那是她的初恋。 她被"情人"抛弃，逆来顺受，由歌手沦落成妓女。 …… 一个女人失去天真、爱情和青春后，身体与精神双重沦落的故事。 文学大师对边缘女性苍凉人生的世纪书写--不落俗套，令人喟叹无尽。

Awards/获奖情况：“[Jean Rhys’s novels] have the quality of the best books by seeming to have written themselves, and reading them one flinches at truth after truth.” (Howard Moss - The New Yorker)

“Every so often someone comes along whose prose style is so alert and fresh, so remote from the mainstream idiom of English social fiction that is seems miraculous that they should be able to write like that and be British too. Jean Rhys is such a writer.” (Jonathan Raban)

“Miss Rhys has not often been more steadily successful than in her account of Anna Morgan’s quite ordinary tragedy. . . . Miss Rhys has done a nearly perfect job.” (T. P., Jr. - Saturday Review of Literature)

About the Author/作者介绍： Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1890, the daughter of a Welsh doctor and a white Creole mother. She came to England when she was sixteen and then drifted into a series of jobs – chorus girl, mannequin, artist’s model – after her father died.
She began to write when the first of her three marriages broke up. She was in her thirties by then, and living in Paris, where she was encouraged by Ford Madox Ford, who also discovered D. H. Lawrence. Ford wrote an enthusiastic introduction to her first book in 1927, a collection of stories called The Left Bank. This was followed by Quartet (originally Postures,, 1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Good Morning, Midnight (1939). None of these books was particularly successful, perhaps because they were decades ahead of their time in theme and tone, dealing as they did with women as underdogs, exploited and exploiting their sexuality. With the outbreak of war and subsequent failure of Good Morning, Midnight, the books went out of print and Jean Rhys literally dropped completely from sight. It was generally thought that she was dead. Nearly twenty years later she was rediscovered, largely due to the enthusiasm of the writer Francis Wyndham. She was living reclusively in Cornwall, and during those years had accumulated the stories collected in Tigers are Better-Looking.
In 1966 she made a sensational reappearance with Wide Sargasso Sea, which won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the W. H. Smith Award in 1966, her only comment on the latter being that ‘It has come too late’. Her final collection of stories, Sleep It Off Lady, appeared in 1976 and Smile Please, her unfinished autobiography, was published posthumously in 1979. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1966 and a CBE in 1978.
Jean Rhys, described by A. Alvarez as ‘one of the finest British writers of this century’, died in 1979.
Carole Angier is the biographer of Jean Rhys which was shortlisted for the 1991 Whitbread Biography Award, and which won the 1991 Writers’ Guild Award for Non-Fiction. She received an Arts Council grant for The Double Bond in 1998. She is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Warwick. She lives in Oxfordshire.

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