基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：160 页
出版日期：2000年08月
ISBN：0141183942
条形码：9780141183947
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Modern Classics
外文书名：离开麦肯齐先生以后

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After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love. For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr. Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day visit contains some of Jean Rhys's most sensitive, poignant writing. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love.
作者简介 Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before starting to write in Paris in the late '20s. 'AFTER LEAVING MR. MACKENZIE' was written in 1930. Her early novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their time and only modestly successful. From 1939 onwards she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with 'Wide Sargasso Sea' [1966]. She died in 1979.
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This is another one of Jean Rhys' forlorn monochromatic sketches of a woman approaching forty but does it really matter. The lines are strongest around the eyes and the mouth. Julia is the same woman who has appeared in all her books (Good Morning Midnight, 1970, her best; Quartet, 1971, a little stronger than this one) in different but no better circumstances. Her marriage did not work out; she lost a baby because she didn't have the money to keep it alive; she has been living off one man or another in Paris for about ten years - most recently Mr. Mackenzie who leaves her with a "sore and cringing feeling" and a few francs. Triste, indecisive but somehow faintly expectant - she hopes for just what? She goes back to London briefly - no one really wants to see her and her mother is too far gone to recognize her. She returns to Paris and when last seen is walking some street in "the hour between dog and wolf, as they say." Miss Rhys, in her understated fashion, was a remarkable precisionist and in this fine rain you can almost count the drops. (Kirkus Reviews)