Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles t...
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner prizes, The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. A passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife and mother yearns to escape the claustrophobia of suburban domesticity and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And in New York in the 1990s, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich Village apartment and goes shopping for flowers for the party she is giving in honour of her life-long friend Richard, an award-winning poet whose mind and body are being ravaged by AIDS. These are the characters in Michael Cunningham's exquisite and deeply moving novel, which takes Woolf's life and work as inspiration for a meditation on artistic behaviour, failure, love and madness. Moving effortlessy across the decades and between England and America, Cunningham's elegant, haunting prose explores the pain and trauma of creativity and the immutable relationship between writer and reader.
It's depressing, and i love it. "Mrs. Dalloway, she thinks, is a house on a hill where a party is about to begin; death is the city below, which mrs dalloway loves and fears and which she wants, in so...It's depressing, and i love it. "Mrs. Dalloway, she thinks, is a house on a hill where a party is about to begin; death is the city below, which mrs dalloway loves and fears and which she wants, in some way, to walk into so deeply she will never find her way back again. "(展开)
Mrs. Woolf: 与Vanessa的亲吻不是发生在离别前，而是在女仆Nelly怒气冲冲的从伦敦买茶品回来后，那个吻因为发生在Nelly转身后，而变成"the most delicious and forbidden of pleasures". 并且，"Vanessa returned the kiss." 在火车站逃离未遂，被赶来的Leonard追上的那幕，...
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"to look life in the face, always to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. At last, to know it, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away. always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours...
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1 有用 WaaaaaaKaaaaaa 2013-12-21 14:22:13
看电影时没有看懂Mrs Dalloway的感情，看书时依然没有看懂。
1 有用 iamcharlotte 2023-03-28 16:24:25 广东
One cannot truly get peace through avoiding life.
0 有用 亚热带季风 2021-10-08 21:34:15
Richard的最后话语，就像是一曲面对生活的宏大咏叹调。他（足够幸运的）感受过生命中那些极致的美好与欢愉，有过肉体上的沉湎与智识上的充盈，他的死亡是悲哀绝望的，也是热切的。 Clarissa怀念的那个夏天，就像在时间之河里静止了一般，像是一尾无与伦比的鱼儿被冻在了湖里供人们观赏，可望却不可及。那样近乎完满的感受就像是某种诅咒、某种错误，缠绕着一个人剩余的全部生命。 而我呢？我也想拥有那些绽放的时... Richard的最后话语，就像是一曲面对生活的宏大咏叹调。他（足够幸运的）感受过生命中那些极致的美好与欢愉，有过肉体上的沉湎与智识上的充盈，他的死亡是悲哀绝望的，也是热切的。 Clarissa怀念的那个夏天，就像在时间之河里静止了一般，像是一尾无与伦比的鱼儿被冻在了湖里供人们观赏，可望却不可及。那样近乎完满的感受就像是某种诅咒、某种错误，缠绕着一个人剩余的全部生命。 而我呢？我也想拥有那些绽放的时刻，甚至不惜忍受余下人生重复的无望，可她会在何时来临呢？ (展开)
0 有用 Signora Python 2014-11-13 06:53:43
too gay for me
0 有用 Emanuelle 2013-04-27 14:17:29
It's depressing, and i love it. "Mrs. Dalloway, she thinks, is a house on a hill where a party is about to begin; death is the city below, which mrs dalloway loves and fears and which she wants, in so... It's depressing, and i love it. "Mrs. Dalloway, she thinks, is a house on a hill where a party is about to begin; death is the city below, which mrs dalloway loves and fears and which she wants, in some way, to walk into so deeply she will never find her way back again. " (展开)