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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

$665

ISBN:9780593315149
作者:Anna Funder
出版社:Knopf
出版日期:2025/02/25
尺寸:201x131x26mm

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At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue.

"I’ve always loved Orwell," Funder writes, "his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on." So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life and work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, and it was a revelation.

Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife.

A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending and utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere. Read less


他寫出撼動世界的《一九八四》、《動物農莊》,
卻悄悄隱去了他的妻子。

一個文學巨人身後,被遺忘的女性故事

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他是二十世紀最具影響力的作家,她卻被遺落在歷史的陰影中。

1936年,喬治.歐威爾與艾琳.歐肖內西結為連理。她不僅是他的妻子,更是才華出眾的知識分子、戰爭時期的患難夥伴、創作背後的無名功臣。然而,歐威爾筆下的經典中,我們看見極權、戰爭與自由,卻幾乎看不見他的妻子──艾琳。她與他並肩投入西班牙內戰,為他打理家務、編輯手稿、啟發了他的創作手法,甚至為解救他的性命奔波勞碌,卻在他的文字和後世傳記中被「抹除」了。

本書為澳洲知名作家安娜.方德結合真實史料、書信與文學想像的創新之作。她在細讀六本歐威爾傳記後,意外地發現了艾琳的身影,並企圖讓她重見天日。方德在書中除了透過諸多史料,重構這段鮮為人知的婚姻故事;她也用小說情節補白歷史的缺漏,遊走在非虛構和虛構寫作之間,並以夾敘夾議的書寫策略,深入探討了男性作家與妻子、父權體制與女性的權力關係。

方德不僅細膩還原了艾琳的生命,也讓我們對歐威爾等偉大的男性文學巨匠,有了更具反思批判的眼光。這部跨文體的傑作,與其說是為艾琳作傳,不如說是一場文學的補寫,一種對女性失聲的深刻質問。

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房慧真|作家

本書特色

●挑戰歐威爾的崇高地位,為被遺忘的女性發聲
今年適逢歐威爾逝世75週年,作者挑戰過去史家塑造的歐威爾形象,為他的妻子艾琳立傳發聲,讓讀者看見男性文豪的光環背後,許多女性的貢獻和犧牲。

●結合傳記、文學評論與女性主義分析
作者透過女性主義視角,將歷史文件、私人書信、傳記交錯分析,檢視歐威爾和他的傳記作家們如何用「父權魔術」抹消艾琳的存在,對喜愛文藝批評的讀者深具啟發性。

●文筆生動優美,以小說場景再現真實
本書除了有紀實的成分,作者也運用生動的文學筆法重建艾琳的心理狀態和私密場景,以此描繪女性內在的矛盾與掙扎,使整個故事更富有感染力。

●跨時代女性經驗的共鳴
書中融入了作者為人妻子的經驗,使得內容不只是關於「歐威爾和艾琳」,更是關於女性如何受父權體制所箝制,以及如何抵抗突圍,令人共鳴。
 

——中文簡介摘自黑體文化出版《喬治.歐威爾之妻的隱形人生》

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life

$665