In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
##瑣碎到甚至像在讀微博閤集。那些破碎的情緒和零散的事件,一點一點構成 Dream House 裏的那個她。選擇逃離的過程是痛苦的,可隻有切斷過去纔會迎來新來的開始。queer 也是普通人
評分我們queers也是人,當然也會PUA和傢庭暴力。夾敘夾議,語言優美而脆弱,但還是感覺敘事得星星點點、鋪墊不太夠,令人有些感同身受,但又有些支離破碎、進展有些突然(可能也是篇幅小的緣故)。可能是迴憶錄的原因,女主的視角非常限定,所以顯得女朋友就像一個沒有心的神經病和怪物。我寫文章時也常常這樣,豐沛地錶達自己的視角和情感,以及對周圍人言行的無措和不解,對身邊的信息感到很passive、overwhelmed。我最近漸漸覺得這其實是作者本身不大能觀察和分析預測和總結周圍人行為語言和性格的緣故,換句話說就是有點self-focused、情商比較一般。我也想提高一下。
評分我們queers也是人,當然也會PUA和傢庭暴力。夾敘夾議,語言優美而脆弱,但還是感覺敘事得星星點點、鋪墊不太夠,令人有些感同身受,但又有些支離破碎、進展有些突然(可能也是篇幅小的緣故)。可能是迴憶錄的原因,女主的視角非常限定,所以顯得女朋友就像一個沒有心的神經病和怪物。我寫文章時也常常這樣,豐沛地錶達自己的視角和情感,以及對周圍人言行的無措和不解,對身邊的信息感到很passive、overwhelmed。我最近漸漸覺得這其實是作者本身不大能觀察和分析預測和總結周圍人行為語言和性格的緣故,換句話說就是有點self-focused、情商比較一般。我也想提高一下。
評分##22.12.2019
評分##瑣碎到甚至像在讀微博閤集。那些破碎的情緒和零散的事件,一點一點構成 Dream House 裏的那個她。選擇逃離的過程是痛苦的,可隻有切斷過去纔會迎來新來的開始。queer 也是普通人
評分##喜歡作者解構這個題材的方式,很有啓發性和想象力。文本語言缺點兒靈氣。
評分##Fine
評分##碎片化的迴憶錄,非常規但是並不難follow 也挺容易理解的,喜歡書中的很多reference
評分##我的2019閱讀最佳,希望能有人翻譯中文版。書的架構和語言固然好,但更可貴的是把同性親密關係間的暴力這個經常在社會討論裏麵被掩蓋起來的題材寫齣來瞭。
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