出版社: Scribner
副标题: A Novel
出版年: 2017-5-9
页数: 288
定价: USD 26.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781501140211
内容简介 · · · · · ·
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children.
“I have been acquainted with the smell of death.” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband ...
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children.
“I have been acquainted with the smell of death.” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war.
Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions: how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her because that is what he was told would make the winds blow in his favor and take him to Troy; how she seduced and collaborated with the prisoner Aegisthus, who shared her bed in the dark and could kill; how Agamemnon came back with a lover himself; and how Clytemnestra finally achieved her vengeance for his stunning betrayal—his quest for victory, greater than his love for his child.
In House of Names, Colm Tóibín brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra’s thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly inhabits the mind of one of Greek myth’s most powerful villains to reveal the love, lust, and pain she feels. Told in fours parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son, Orestes. It is Orestes’ story, too: his capture by the forces of his mother’s lover Aegisthus, his escape and his exile. And it is the story of the vengeful Electra, who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation, until, on the return of her brother, she has the fates of both of them in her hands.
House of Names的创作者
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科尔姆·托宾 作者
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and lived in Barcelona between 1975 and 1978. Out of his experience in Barcelona be produced two books, the novel ‘The South’ (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and winner of the Irish Times/ Aer Lingus First Fiction Award) and ‘Homage to Barcelona’, both published in...
Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and lived in Barcelona between 1975 and 1978. Out of his experience in Barcelona be produced two books, the novel ‘The South’ (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and winner of the Irish Times/ Aer Lingus First Fiction Award) and ‘Homage to Barcelona’, both published in 1990. When he returned to Ireland in 1978 he worked as a journalist for ‘In Dublin’, ‘Hibernia’ and ‘The Sunday Tribune’, becoming features editor of ‘In Dublin’ in 1981 and editor of Magill, Ireland’s current affairs magazine, in 1982. He left Magill in 1985 and travelled in Africa and South America. His journalism from the 1980s was collected in ‘The Trial of the Generals’ (1990). His other work as a journalist and travel writer includes ‘Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border’ (1987) and ‘The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe’ (1994). His other novels are: ‘The Heather Blazing (1992, winner of the Encore Award); ‘The Story of the Night’ (1996, winner of the Ferro-Grumley Prize); ‘The Blackwater Lightship’ (1999, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Prize and the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury); ‘The Master’ (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize); ‘Brooklyn’ (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His short story collections are ‘Mothers and Sons’ (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and ‘The Empty Family (2010). His play ‘Beauty in a Broken Place’ was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: ‘The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950’ (with Carmen Callil); ‘Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush’ (2002); ‘Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar’ (2002) and ‘All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James’ (2010). He has edited ‘The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction’. His work has been translated into thirty languages. In 2008, a book of essays on his work ‘Reading Colm Toibin’, edited by Paul Delaney, was published. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Ulster and from University College Dublin. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. In 2006 he was appointed to the Arts Council in Ireland. He has twice been Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University and also been a visiting writer at the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University.
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House of Names的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 14 条 )
科尔姆.托宾:我是如何重述古希腊悲剧的
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原文是今年五月House of Names*出版时, 托宾在卫报发的文章。文中就此书的角色、创作缘起等等进行了阐述。身为爱尔兰作家,他也提及了那段惨痛历史。 * House of Names 为托宾新作,重述了著名古希腊悲剧——阿伽门农祭女及之后引发的故事。 希腊迈锡尼国王阿伽门农在决意进攻... (展开)《名门》:“阿伽门农的献祭”引发的血案
《名门》:让神祇退场的古希腊神话重述,诠释喧嚣中的孤独
许志强评《名门》︱与丹尼尔·门德尔松商榷
「高明之家,鬼瞰其室。」
母与子的复仇者形象之观照
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这个故事描写出了最经典又最具魅力的男人和女人形象——作为复仇者,女人的魅力在于她的孤注一掷、偏执激烈,而男人的魅力则在于他的踌躇、脆弱和失败的凄美,克吕泰涅斯特拉和俄瑞斯忒斯就是这样。最开始看名门是被第一章克吕泰涅斯特拉面向死亡的亲昵纠缠和复仇的信念吸引的... (展开)解开暴力恶性循环的死结
衔尾蛇般的报复与诅咒:阿特柔斯家族的悲剧
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1 有用 时任谦作 2018-08-26 19:56:36
延续了《玛利亚的自白》的写法,能理解托宾的意图,但是这种通过描述心理活动赋予神话人物的行为以合理性有时候显得牵强,把他们当人来看,不如全部换了名字才好,神话人物的行为根本不需要合理性。这本鬼魂的因素加了很多(比《诺拉·韦伯斯特》。喜欢后半部分,喜欢重塑后的Electra。
0 有用 Issac 2023-08-06 03:17:26 英国
罗伯特.邓肯曾道:“诗人的存在并非为反对邪恶,而是去想象邪恶。”或许,铭记邪恶会经多重伪装后现身也尤为重要。它声势浩大,但也晓得礼貌等待出场时机。它会微笑。当阿伽门农与妻子克吕泰涅斯特拉、女儿厄勒克特拉在 House of Names 一书中兴风作浪时,最危险的那个人,也就是俄瑞斯忒斯,一直处于阴影中……无法表达他的感受,也无法确认他自身愤怒的意义为何。他是那个安静的人,至少看起来如此乖巧,直到你... 罗伯特.邓肯曾道:“诗人的存在并非为反对邪恶,而是去想象邪恶。”或许,铭记邪恶会经多重伪装后现身也尤为重要。它声势浩大,但也晓得礼貌等待出场时机。它会微笑。当阿伽门农与妻子克吕泰涅斯特拉、女儿厄勒克特拉在 House of Names 一书中兴风作浪时,最危险的那个人,也就是俄瑞斯忒斯,一直处于阴影中……无法表达他的感受,也无法确认他自身愤怒的意义为何。他是那个安静的人,至少看起来如此乖巧,直到你给他一把匕首。这便是我的任务,我写作,步入他残缺的灵魂,透过他痛苦的双眼打量这个世界。 (展开)
0 有用 HD模糊 2020-05-02 14:55:40
Clytemnestra 的开篇和结尾都是五星,有声书的朗读人也完美!不太喜欢儿子女儿的故事,亮点有,但稀释在大段无聊进展里。
1 有用 Iris. 2020-12-08 09:30:52
开头的Clytemnestra段落最佳,有力量有情感,后面Oresteia和Electra的段落都比较无聊。结尾的haunting倒有点哈姆雷特的开场的味道。
0 有用 辛维木 2020-10-29 08:06:23
用古希腊悲剧来写暴力的螺旋,很赞。不过拿现成的故事来重新演绎总是隐隐有种同人文作弊的感觉……
0 有用 Issac 2023-08-06 03:17:26 英国
罗伯特.邓肯曾道:“诗人的存在并非为反对邪恶,而是去想象邪恶。”或许,铭记邪恶会经多重伪装后现身也尤为重要。它声势浩大,但也晓得礼貌等待出场时机。它会微笑。当阿伽门农与妻子克吕泰涅斯特拉、女儿厄勒克特拉在 House of Names 一书中兴风作浪时,最危险的那个人,也就是俄瑞斯忒斯,一直处于阴影中……无法表达他的感受,也无法确认他自身愤怒的意义为何。他是那个安静的人,至少看起来如此乖巧,直到你... 罗伯特.邓肯曾道:“诗人的存在并非为反对邪恶,而是去想象邪恶。”或许,铭记邪恶会经多重伪装后现身也尤为重要。它声势浩大,但也晓得礼貌等待出场时机。它会微笑。当阿伽门农与妻子克吕泰涅斯特拉、女儿厄勒克特拉在 House of Names 一书中兴风作浪时,最危险的那个人,也就是俄瑞斯忒斯,一直处于阴影中……无法表达他的感受,也无法确认他自身愤怒的意义为何。他是那个安静的人,至少看起来如此乖巧,直到你给他一把匕首。这便是我的任务,我写作,步入他残缺的灵魂,透过他痛苦的双眼打量这个世界。 (展开)
1 有用 Iris. 2020-12-08 09:30:52
开头的Clytemnestra段落最佳,有力量有情感,后面Oresteia和Electra的段落都比较无聊。结尾的haunting倒有点哈姆雷特的开场的味道。
0 有用 辛维木 2020-10-29 08:06:23
用古希腊悲剧来写暴力的螺旋,很赞。不过拿现成的故事来重新演绎总是隐隐有种同人文作弊的感觉……
0 有用 HD模糊 2020-05-02 14:55:40
Clytemnestra 的开篇和结尾都是五星,有声书的朗读人也完美!不太喜欢儿子女儿的故事,亮点有,但稀释在大段无聊进展里。
0 有用 妮宝(减肥版) 2020-02-26 15:43:47
还是前半部分好看,结尾部分显得冗长枯燥。