Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wif...
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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If Daphne du Maurier had written only Rebecca, she would still be one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Few writers have created more magical and mysterious places than Jamaica Inn and Manderley, buildings invested with a rich character that gives them a memorable life of their own.
In many ways the life of Daphne du Maurier resembles a fairy t...
If Daphne du Maurier had written only Rebecca, she would still be one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Few writers have created more magical and mysterious places than Jamaica Inn and Manderley, buildings invested with a rich character that gives them a memorable life of their own.
In many ways the life of Daphne du Maurier resembles a fairy tale. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, the daughter of a famous actor-manager, she was indulged as a child and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. She spent her youth sailing boats, travelling on the Continent with friends, and writing stories. A prestigious publishing house accepted her first novel when she was in her early twenties, and its publication brought her not only fame but the attentions of a handsome soldier, Major (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Frederick Browning, whom she married.
Her subsequent novels became bestsellers, earning her enormous wealth and fame. While Alfred Hitchcock's film based upon her novel proceeded to make her one of the best-known authors in the world, she enjoyed the life of a fairy princess in a mansion in Cornwall called Menabilly, which served as the model for Manderley in Rebecca.
Daphne du Maurier was obsessed with the past. She intensively researched the lives of Francis and Anthony Bacon, the history of Cornwall, the Regency period, and nineteenth-century France and England. Above all, however, she was obsessed with her own family history, which she chronicled in Gerald: A Portrait, a biography of her father; The du Mauriers, a study of her family which focused on her grandfather, George du Maurier, the novelist and illustrator for Punch; The Glassblowers, a novel based upon the lives of her du Maurier ancestors; and Growing Pains, an autobiography that ignores nearly 50 years of her life in favour of the joyful and more romantic period of her youth. Daphne du Maurier can best be understood in terms of her remarkable and paradoxical family, the ghosts which haunted her life and fiction.
While contemporary writers were dealing critically with such subjects as the war, alienation, religion, poverty, Marxism, psychology and art, and experimenting with new techniques such as the stream of consciousness, du Maurier produced 'old-fashioned' novels with straightforward narratives that appealed to a popular audience's love of fantasy, adventure, sexuality and mystery. At an early age, she recognised that her readership was comprised principally of women, and she cultivated their loyal following through several decades by embodying their desires and dreams in her novels and short stories.
In some of her novels, however, she went beyond the technique of the formulaic romance to achieve a powerful psychological realism reflecting her intense feelings about her father, and to a lesser degree, her mother. This vision, which underlies Julius, Rebecca and The Parasites, is that of an author overwhelmed by the memory of her father's commanding presence. In Julius and The Parasites, for example, she introduces the image of a domineering but deadly father and the daring subject of incest.
In Rebecca, on the other hand, du Maurier fuses psychological realism with a sophisticated version of the Cinderella story. The nameless heroine has been saved from a life of drudgery by marrying a handsome, wealthy aristocrat, but unlike the Prince in Cinderella, Maxim de Winter is old enough to be the narrator's father. The narrator thus must do battle with The Other Woman—the dead Rebecca and her witch-like surrogate, Mrs Danvers—to win the love of her husband and father-figure.
不会被掩埋的Rebacca ——我不信上帝信魔女 “Sometimes,when I walk along the corridor here,I fancy I hear her just behind me.That quick,light footstep.I could not mistake it anywhere.It;s almost as though I catch the sound of her dress sweeping the sta...
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The solemn ritual went forward as it always did, day after day, the leaves of the table pulled out, the legs adjusted, the laying of the snowy cloth, the putting down of the silver teapot and the kettle with the little flame beneath. Scenes, sandwiches, three different sort of cake. How the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of e...
2021-05-21 10:49:14
The solemn ritual went forward as it always did, day after day, the leaves of the table pulled out, the legs adjusted, the laying of the snowy cloth, the putting down of the silver teapot and the kettle with the little flame beneath. Scenes, sandwiches, three different sort of cake.
How the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
The solemn ritual went forward as it always did, day after day, the leaves of the table pulled out, the legs adjusted, the laying of the snowy cloth, the putting down of the silver teapot and the kettle with the little flame beneath. Scenes, sandwiches, three different sort of cake. How the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of e...
2021-05-21 10:49:14
The solemn ritual went forward as it always did, day after day, the leaves of the table pulled out, the legs adjusted, the laying of the snowy cloth, the putting down of the silver teapot and the kettle with the little flame beneath. Scenes, sandwiches, three different sort of cake.
How the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
The solemn ritual went forward as it always did, day after day, the leaves of the table pulled out, the legs adjusted, the laying of the snowy cloth, the putting down of the silver teapot and the kettle with the little flame beneath. Scenes, sandwiches, three different sort of cake. How the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of e...
2021-05-21 10:49:14
The solemn ritual went forward as it always did, day after day, the leaves of the table pulled out, the legs adjusted, the laying of the snowy cloth, the putting down of the silver teapot and the kettle with the little flame beneath. Scenes, sandwiches, three different sort of cake.
How the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
0 有用 会飞的石头 2016-06-22 00:29:44
剩最后两个小时,弃。实在受不了了。一点不能认同女主和Mr de Winter,这种敢杀不敢认的人。。那么最后四分之一篇幅一直在说谎,企图苟活,还那么恬然。越看女主小人得志的样子越喜欢Rebecca。。
0 有用 Jule 2012-03-09 14:11:56
Audio book, another Gothic novel, read by Ann Massey. The memorable characters in this book are 1. a dead woman; 2. a house; 3. a sinister
0 有用 曦延 2016-12-01 22:14:34
恍如夢中一樣發生的事,遇見的人,少女初戀時的心境行經都令你感到如此熟悉。我的一切煩惱,自卑,怯懦,神經質都只因對你對前度是否留戀而耿耿於懷。
0 有用 忍者虫冲 2010-12-09 23:43:59
超喜欢。语言极美 译本语言亦如此。Rebecca阴魂不散的形象实在经典 可恨可怜可悲。the curious slant R. 需精读。
0 有用 Joy 2016-01-21 13:34:11
景物描写非常动人,故事一波三折,很能让读者有参与感,越来越多的谜团出现,到最后一点点解开,有意思。
0 有用 喵呜咦 2022-04-27 19:18:34
Great story, it is amazed that there is someone like Rebecca at that time. But it took me never 20 chapters to truly get into the story
0 有用 颜夕 2022-04-26 23:34:26
补标。
0 有用 Le Flaneur 2022-04-10 10:13:27
所以甄嬛误穿先皇后衣服的桥段是抄自这里?
0 有用 青澄儿 2022-04-06 10:05:11
清明假期第二天读了前部分,感觉有点啰嗦,没耐心就直接看同名电影了。今年第一本弃读的书,幸亏没买纸质版。。。
0 有用 CCarly 2022-03-22 13:48:44
好精彩