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Amazon人気商品ランキング/Margaret Eleanor AtwoodpsWorksはAmazon.co.jpの提携サイトです。代金確認、及び商品の発送はAmazon.co.jpが行います。 1500円以上のお買い上げで国内配送料無料!! 中古価格が表示されている商品は[商品詳細]ページでご購入頂けます。 商品総数:254/総ページ数:26 最終更新日:2008/10/14 The Handmaid's Taleカスタマーレビューピックアップ 純粋に本としては面白く読めたし、多くの人に手にとってほしい作品なので星は四つにしたが、絶対に子どもは持たないと決めている私にとって、内容は相容れない。女性の大半が子どもを産めなくなった時代、子どもを産むための道具とされている女性に同性として同情はするが、そもそも人類というのは続いていかなければならないものなのか。おのれの遺伝子を未来へとつないでいくのは生き物として当たり前の本能だが、それをあえてやめる、ということができるのは人類だけであり、それもまた進化の一つではないだろうか。優性保護と混同されるととても困るのだが、病気だの奇形だのとは全く関係なく、残さない方がいい遺伝子というものも世の中にありはしないか。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ この作家が気になっているのでこれも読んでみた。すごい作家だと思う。 ボストン近郊の、ハーバードキャンパスを思わせる地域が舞台。設定は20世紀後半。ちょうどこれが書かれた時期(1985年)だと思われる。キリスト教原理主義者によるクーデタにより誕生した新国家ギレアデは女性を「生む機械」として扱い、出産能力のない女性は強制収用所を想起させる「コロニー」に送り、出産能力のある女性の一部は「司令官」の家に侍女として住まわせ月ごとの「儀式」により妊娠させようとする。ちなみに、聖書にそういう一節(子どものできない妻が侍女を代わりに孕ませようとする話)がある。語り手の侍女もまた、フレッドなる司令官の家に住まわされ、日々の行動を監視され、「儀式」に参加させられる。 と、設定は全くもって暗い。しかし、語り手は淡々と状況を受け止める。 <夜の闇が舞い降りて来る。いや、すでに舞い降りている。どうして夜の闇は、日の出のように昇ると言わないで舞い降りるというのだろう?日没のときに東を見れば、夜の闇が舞い降りるのではなく、昇るのが見えるというのに。闇は雲に隠れた太陽のように、地平線から空に昇っていくものなのだ。見えない火事からたち昇る煙のように。地平線のすぐ下に並んだ火災から、大かがり火から、燃える都市からたち昇る煙のように。> (p.349) この箇所がなんだか印象に残った。夜の闇は、この侍女を覆う状況の比喩である。闇は、突然降りて来るのではない。われわれの「燃える都市」から、自分たちの中から昇って来るのだ。 1985年といえば、オーウェルの『1984』を想起させるが、イランで原理主義革命が起こって間もない時期である。原理主義にひそむ非寛容を非難するのはたやすいが、それがわれわれの「自由主義」陣営からいつ「立ち昇って」くるかは分からないのである。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ 女性が抑圧された社会というのは 過去の歴史の中で幾度も存在していて、日本もそうであったし 現在もほとんどの地方ではその風習が残っている。 私の母親がまさにそのような社会体制の中で生きてきたので この作品にはとても親近感がわいた。 英語の原文を読むことになったのだが、まあ大学生程度の 語学力があれば読み通すことなど簡単である。 ただ日本語訳のこのバージョンと原文にはいくらかの差があり 日本語化されたこの本はただのSF小説のようになって しまっているのが残念である。 また、この内容に共感できるかできないかは読み手の位置に 大きく左右されると思う。なので星は4つ。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ 崩壊直前の旧ユーゴスラビアに旅行した際にウィーンで買い、スロヴェニアまで抱えて行った本。著者のファンでもなく、何故この本を手に取ったのかはいまでは朧な記憶しかないが、多分表紙の絵が気に入ったのではないかと思う。 物語展開がノロノロでキャラに魅力がなく、提示される未来像にリアリティが感じられないので恐ろしくもなかった。読了して「つまんない」とスロヴェニアのホテルに置いて来てしまった。ソ連の全体主義がまだ命脈をつないでいた時代にはある程度リアリティがあったのだろうか。宗教に対する攻撃もベタベタだが、これも時代的脈絡で見ると何か意味があるのか。現代先進国社会の地獄は、そもそも遺伝子、生活環境、偶発的事象その他もろもろの条件にがんじがらめになって存在している不自由この上ない人間存在に対して「自由、自由」と吹き込み、宗教を目の敵にしては信仰が生み出す精神性や神聖感を破壊していったせいだろうと思っている私のような人間には、この作者の見たディストピアがどういった社会観察から来たヴィジョンなのかよく分からず、宗教嫌いの左派リベラルの典型的な蜃気楼にしか見えない。尤も、現在の経済基盤が維持不可能になる時代にはどんな社会が現出しているか神のみぞ知るだが。取りあえず、フェミニスト作家とは相性が悪いぞ、と十代の私に自覚させてくれた一冊ではある。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ
発表当時話題にもなり、映画化にもなりました 近年絶版となっていただけに文庫での復活は嬉しいかぎりです。 この小説は近未来のアメリカが舞台ですが エイズや環境汚染に起因する出生率の低下により 女性が子供を産む道具として扱われ奴隷のような生活を送っています。 タイトルにもある侍女は、妊娠可能な子宮を持つた女性を意味します 主人公の侍女である女性には自由はありません カナダを代表する作家は、日本ではあまり読まれないので知名度が低い Peter Doig: Works on PaperAlias Graceカスタマーレビューピックアップ
1843年にカナダで起きたスキャンダラスな殺人事件をもとにした フィクション。史実の部分は、忠実に反映されているそうです。 共謀者として終身刑を言い渡された、当時16歳だった メイドのグレイスが本当に有罪なのか、そして精神的に 病んでいるのか、再度精神鑑定が試みられることになり・・・ 物語は、彼女の精神鑑定に臨む精神科医のエピソードを 織り込みながら展開します。グレースの数奇な運命、 そして、ゆるやかに足を踏み外していく若き精神科医… 普通の人間が普通でない世界に知らず足を踏み入れてしまう、 その境界の限りない曖昧さ…危うさが描かれます。 物語の大半を占めるグレイスの身の上話は淡々と細部にわたり、 当時の階級社会や身分の低いメイドたちの悲哀、生活の 様子がうかがえました。比較的長編ですが、 飽きずに読めました。 邦訳は、「またの名をグレイス」。 SurfacingFrom Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World: Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century (From Eve to Dawn)
特価:¥ 2,357(税込) 発売日:2008-09 売上ランキング:Bookで35726位 Book / 通常9~14日以内に発送 The Blind Assassinカスタマーレビューピックアップ 原書に挑戦したが、小説の構造が複雑かつ単語も難しい用語が多数使用されているため読みこなすのに苦労した。 構造は今は老女となった主人公のアイリスが過去を振り返る手記の体裁をとっているが、その中で妹のローラが書いたといわれるThe Blind Assassinという小説が平行して展開し、更にこの小説の中でSF的な物語が語られるという複雑なものだが、これを最後まで読ませる著者の技量はおみごと。 但し、主人公のアイリスとローラの姉妹とこの二人に関わる男性アレックスのキャラクターに共感できるものがないため、感情移入はできなかった。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ The most wonderful thing about this book is the side-by-side storytelling of the main plot along with a main character's own novel (which itself contains a sub-story). Interesting and well-done. The main plot 'twists,' however, are easily guessable. I had only finished half of the book when I knew the big secret which drove Iris' sister Laura to despair. I can't imagine anyone else not being able to figure it out. If the author had kept that 'revelation' hidden, this book would have been amazing. But still a worthwhile read. 試み Giorgio Kostantinos 極度 小説 The Quest カスタマーレビューピックアップ この本は前半とっつきにくくて、謎の部分は早くに見当がついてしまうし先は長いしげんなりしたが、やはりアトウッド。読ませる。 悲しみと後悔が溢れている。暗殺者は誰だったのか。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ ãã䏿-ã®19ä¸-ç'ããã®æ'å²ã'ãä¸äººå¨ã'亡ãã-ãå«å¨ãè¡æ-¹ç¥ããã®å¤ç¬ãªè女ã¢ã¤ãªã¹ãèªãå½¢ã«ãªã£ã¦ãã¾ããã妹ãã¼ã©ãæ»ã¬åã«æ¸ãæ®ã-ããæãç®ã®æ-殺è...ãã¨ããå°èª¬ã彼女ã®è¿½æ¶ã®ä¸ã«æ¿ã¾ãã¾ããã²ã¨ç®ã'å²ã¶ãé亡è...ã¨è¯å®¶ã®å¥³æ§ã®é¢å¼ã®ä¸ã§èªããããç°æ§ã§å"ã-ãå°èª¬ã®çæ¸ãâ¦ã"ããä½ã'æã-示ãã®ãã ç 'ç"£ã-ãã'ãå®¶ã'æ'ãçºã18æ³ã§æ³ã®é¢ããå¯è±ªã®å...ã«å«ããããã¢ã¤ãªã¹ããã®ç"²æ-ãç¡ãå®¶ã¯ç 'ç"£ãç¶ã¯æ¥éã-ã妹ã'å¼ãå-ãé¢å'ã'è¦ãã"ã¨ã«ãªãããã-ã¦ãã¼ã©ã®æ»ã¨ãå½¼å¥³ãæ®ã-ãã»ã"ã®æ°è¡ã®æ-å-ãèªãæ²åãèªå·±ä¸å¿çã§å¥"æ"¾ãªå¦¹ã¨å¤§äººã-ãç®èº«çãªå§â¦ã"ã®å³å¼ã®å'©ããæ§ã¯åã¾ããã§ãã äººã®æ®é...·ããããè¬è§£ããããèªå¾ã«ã¾ãè¬ãæ®ãâ¦ãã¹ããªã¨ã-ã¦èªã"ã§ãæºè¶³åºæ¥!ã!!ã¨æãã¾ããç¹ã«å¾åããã¯ãã³ã¹ããã-ã®é¢ç½ãã§ã-ãã カスタマーレビューピックアップ
You're in your late twenties, you're married to one of the most powerful industrialists/politicians in post-war Canada (although you're now living apart), and your beautiful Harpy sister has just died in a mysterious road accident. So what do you do? You publish your sister's first and only novel, and watch as the vultures descend... Margaret Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel is long and difficult to digest, a veritable seven-course meal. It's taken me a long time of reading and rereading to get my angle upon it. From the start, everything seems relatively straightforward. You know what happens to whom, and where and when they died. The rest of the novel explores have they got there. However, what's most interesting about this narrative is that it does stray from the path, and ventures into the Wild Woods. When Atwood won the Booker, she poignantly praised the work of Angela Carter, which resounds in a small paragraph in the novel: "All stories are about wolves". The Blind Assassin is very much a work of magic realism. You need to have some background reading, starting off with Dante's Inferno, especially Canto XIII. The Wood of the Suicides features the Harpies, and I believe these are symbolic of Laura's supposed 'hysteria'. Harpies are also known as 'The Robbers', and Laura is a notorious klepto. Iris (the name of our narrator) was also sister to the Harpies in myth. The two young heroes in the pulp novel have to enter a wood that supposedly has terrifying dead women in it. Laura is symbolised by the suicide of Dido from the Aeneid. There's also the glorious Book of Daniel, which recounts how Babylon fell overnight (which resounds in the pulp novel too, including the victorious Assyrians' Code of Hammurabi). Allied to this is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald: "The Moving Finger writes" quote is a direct link to the Book of Daniel and the Fall of Babylon. Add to these ingredients a generous helping of the Pre-Raphaelites and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and you've got the kind of novel that I love. No doubt this will sound pretty daunting for your average reader (I've compiled a page concerning the context of this novel for interested readers). However, I think most people will be able to enjoy this novel without all these references. On the other hand, Margaret Atwood makes a big assumption that lots of people will know what the Depression was like in Canada. Unfortunately, Roosevelt and his New Deal are far more famous internationally than the ruthless 'Iron Heel' of Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett. Canada had a devastating Depression in the "Hungry Thirties", which was only fuelled by Bennett's policy of setting up forced work camps. This suffering made more people rally to the Communist Party of Canada under the leadership of Tim Buck, and led to organised protests, such as the Ottawa Trek. This was also the time of the 'Red Scare', the violent repression of 'pinkos' in North America. It's worthwhile looking up the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the deportation of Emma Goldman in order to really appreciate Alex's flight. Alex symbolises the many Canadian Communists who fought in the Spanish Civil War. However, Iris and Laura are cocooned in Avilion, and you don't really get to see anyone starving in The Blind Assassin to get any sense of this context, so probably Alex's cause is lost on a lot of readers. The only fault of the novel is openly acknowledged within Laura's narration: "I've failed to convey Richard, in any rounded sense. He remains a cardboard cutout. "Due to the plot of the novel, Richard's most significant actions are always clandestine, off-camera. The only factual error I can find in the novel also revolves around him: "He was a frequent participant in the Pugwash conferences," we're told in his obituary at the beginning of the novel. Yet Richard died in 1947, and the Pugwash Conferences started in 1957 - the only way that Richard could have attended would have been as a manifestation of Banquo. Since the Pugwash Conferences were devised to bring around world peace, Richard (who's profited so much from his pugilistic attitude and the Second World War) seems a most unlikely candidate for membership. Margaret Atwood can't have too much of a liking for the legendary King Arthur on this evidence, but it's poetic justice that Richard's Excalibur is thrown away, never again to see the light of day. All in all, this is a very enjoyable novel, and Atwood deserves the Booker prize (even if I think Matthew Kneale's English Passengers is slightly better). John Buchan, author of The Thirty-nine Steps, makes a cameo appearance towards the end in his more formal role as Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada at the start of the fall of the British Empire. The narrative also concerns the Fall of the House of Chase. Norval Chase commits an unforgivable act of patriarchy when he sees the writing on the wall, and submits his daughter to the veil. Just like Belshazzar, he cannot avoid his fate, especially when faced with the mercurial Richard Griffen as adversary. Laura finally finds her voice after years of numbness, but at what price? The house of the Patriarch is falling (which is only just), but Margaret Atwood is courageous enough to question what has taken its place. The Blind Assassinカスタマーレビューピックアップ 原書に挑戦したが、小説の構造が複雑かつ単語も難しい用語が多数使用されているため読みこなすのに苦労した。 構造は今は老女となった主人公のアイリスが過去を振り返る手記の体裁をとっているが、その中で妹のローラが書いたといわれるThe Blind Assassinという小説が平行して展開し、更にこの小説の中でSF的な物語が語られるという複雑なものだが、これを最後まで読ませる著者の技量はおみごと。 但し、主人公のアイリスとローラの姉妹とこの二人に関わる男性アレックスのキャラクターに共感できるものがないため、感情移入はできなかった。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ The most wonderful thing about this book is the side-by-side storytelling of the main plot along with a main character's own novel (which itself contains a sub-story). Interesting and well-done. The main plot 'twists,' however, are easily guessable. I had only finished half of the book when I knew the big secret which drove Iris' sister Laura to despair. I can't imagine anyone else not being able to figure it out. If the author had kept that 'revelation' hidden, this book would have been amazing. But still a worthwhile read. 試み Giorgio Kostantinos 極度 小説 The Quest カスタマーレビューピックアップ この本は前半とっつきにくくて、謎の部分は早くに見当がついてしまうし先は長いしげんなりしたが、やはりアトウッド。読ませる。 悲しみと後悔が溢れている。暗殺者は誰だったのか。 カスタマーレビューピックアップ ãã䏿-ã®19ä¸-ç'ããã®æ'å²ã'ãä¸äººå¨ã'亡ãã-ãå«å¨ãè¡æ-¹ç¥ããã®å¤ç¬ãªè女ã¢ã¤ãªã¹ãèªãå½¢ã«ãªã£ã¦ãã¾ããã妹ãã¼ã©ãæ»ã¬åã«æ¸ãæ®ã-ããæãç®ã®æ-殺è...ãã¨ããå°èª¬ã彼女ã®è¿½æ¶ã®ä¸ã«æ¿ã¾ãã¾ããã²ã¨ç®ã'å²ã¶ãé亡è...ã¨è¯å®¶ã®å¥³æ§ã®é¢å¼ã®ä¸ã§èªããããç°æ§ã§å"ã-ãå°èª¬ã®çæ¸ãâ¦ã"ããä½ã'æã-示ãã®ãã ç 'ç"£ã-ãã'ãå®¶ã'æ'ãçºã18æ³ã§æ³ã®é¢ããå¯è±ªã®å...ã«å«ããããã¢ã¤ãªã¹ããã®ç"²æ-ãç¡ãå®¶ã¯ç 'ç"£ãç¶ã¯æ¥éã-ã妹ã'å¼ãå-ãé¢å'ã'è¦ãã"ã¨ã«ãªãããã-ã¦ãã¼ã©ã®æ»ã¨ãå½¼å¥³ãæ®ã-ãã»ã"ã®æ°è¡ã®æ-å-ãèªãæ²åãèªå·±ä¸å¿çã§å¥"æ"¾ãªå¦¹ã¨å¤§äººã-ãç®èº«çãªå§â¦ã"ã®å³å¼ã®å'©ããæ§ã¯åã¾ããã§ãã äººã®æ®é...·ããããè¬è§£ããããèªå¾ã«ã¾ãè¬ãæ®ãâ¦ãã¹ããªã¨ã-ã¦èªã"ã§ãæºè¶³åºæ¥!ã!!ã¨æãã¾ããç¹ã«å¾åããã¯ãã³ã¹ããã-ã®é¢ç½ãã§ã-ãã カスタマーレビューピックアップ
You're in your late twenties, you're married to one of the most powerful industrialists/politicians in post-war Canada (although you're now living apart), and your beautiful Harpy sister has just died in a mysterious road accident. So what do you do? You publish your sister's first and only novel, and watch as the vultures descend... Margaret Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel is long and difficult to digest, a veritable seven-course meal. It's taken me a long time of reading and rereading to get my angle upon it. From the start, everything seems relatively straightforward. You know what happens to whom, and where and when they died. The rest of the novel explores have they got there. However, what's most interesting about this narrative is that it does stray from the path, and ventures into the Wild Woods. When Atwood won the Booker, she poignantly praised the work of Angela Carter, which resounds in a small paragraph in the novel: "All stories are about wolves". The Blind Assassin is very much a work of magic realism. You need to have some background reading, starting off with Dante's Inferno, especially Canto XIII. The Wood of the Suicides features the Harpies, and I believe these are symbolic of Laura's supposed 'hysteria'. Harpies are also known as 'The Robbers', and Laura is a notorious klepto. Iris (the name of our narrator) was also sister to the Harpies in myth. The two young heroes in the pulp novel have to enter a wood that supposedly has terrifying dead women in it. Laura is symbolised by the suicide of Dido from the Aeneid. There's also the glorious Book of Daniel, which recounts how Babylon fell overnight (which resounds in the pulp novel too, including the victorious Assyrians' Code of Hammurabi). Allied to this is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald: "The Moving Finger writes" quote is a direct link to the Book of Daniel and the Fall of Babylon. Add to these ingredients a generous helping of the Pre-Raphaelites and Alfred Lord Tennyson, and you've got the kind of novel that I love. No doubt this will sound pretty daunting for your average reader (I've compiled a page concerning the context of this novel for interested readers). However, I think most people will be able to enjoy this novel without all these references. On the other hand, Margaret Atwood makes a big assumption that lots of people will know what the Depression was like in Canada. Unfortunately, Roosevelt and his New Deal are far more famous internationally than the ruthless 'Iron Heel' of Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett. Canada had a devastating Depression in the "Hungry Thirties", which was only fuelled by Bennett's policy of setting up forced work camps. This suffering made more people rally to the Communist Party of Canada under the leadership of Tim Buck, and led to organised protests, such as the Ottawa Trek. This was also the time of the 'Red Scare', the violent repression of 'pinkos' in North America. It's worthwhile looking up the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the deportation of Emma Goldman in order to really appreciate Alex's flight. Alex symbolises the many Canadian Communists who fought in the Spanish Civil War. However, Iris and Laura are cocooned in Avilion, and you don't really get to see anyone starving in The Blind Assassin to get any sense of this context, so probably Alex's cause is lost on a lot of readers. The only fault of the novel is openly acknowledged within Laura's narration: "I've failed to convey Richard, in any rounded sense. He remains a cardboard cutout. "Due to the plot of the novel, Richard's most significant actions are always clandestine, off-camera. The only factual error I can find in the novel also revolves around him: "He was a frequent participant in the Pugwash conferences," we're told in his obituary at the beginning of the novel. Yet Richard died in 1947, and the Pugwash Conferences started in 1957 - the only way that Richard could have attended would have been as a manifestation of Banquo. Since the Pugwash Conferences were devised to bring around world peace, Richard (who's profited so much from his pugilistic attitude and the Second World War) seems a most unlikely candidate for membership. Margaret Atwood can't have too much of a liking for the legendary King Arthur on this evidence, but it's poetic justice that Richard's Excalibur is thrown away, never again to see the light of day. All in all, this is a very enjoyable novel, and Atwood deserves the Booker prize (even if I think Matthew Kneale's English Passengers is slightly better). John Buchan, author of The Thirty-nine Steps, makes a cameo appearance towards the end in his more formal role as Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada at the start of the fall of the British Empire. The narrative also concerns the Fall of the House of Chase. Norval Chase commits an unforgivable act of patriarchy when he sees the writing on the wall, and submits his daughter to the veil. Just like Belshazzar, he cannot avoid his fate, especially when faced with the mercurial Richard Griffen as adversary. Laura finally finds her voice after years of numbness, but at what price? The house of the Patriarch is falling (which is only just), but Margaret Atwood is courageous enough to question what has taken its place. Anne Of Green GablesCat's Eyeカスタマーレビューピックアップ
子供の頃自分は他の人とどこかが違うと感じたことがある人、 女の子同士の暗黙のルールが理解できなかった人、 そのことで疎外感を感じたことがある人にお勧めする本。 主人公は少しスタンダードから外れた家庭で育ち、 大人になって画家になることで、 読んでいて何度もため息が出た。 特に女の子の場合はルールが複雑で、 子供時代のことだけではなく、恋愛や結婚、離婚など、 Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature |
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