具体描述
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.
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##writing is pretentious
评分##Been there as well.
评分##This demonstrates how pain and powerlessness being written in a beautiful way can be so touching in a melancholic way.
评分##Inventive structure of an abusive relationship told in many genres and devices (road trip, Chekhov's gun, queer villain)--had very low expectations of the 'gimmick' but turns out to be brilliant and fluid. An antidote to silence of queer abuse (is it homophobia if the abuser gets away with abusing the voiceless), entering the canon of folklore
评分##喜欢作者解构这个题材的方式，很有启发性和想象力。文本语言缺点儿灵气。
评分##我的2019阅读最佳，希望能有人翻译中文版。书的架构和语言固然好，但更可贵的是把同性亲密关系间的暴力这个经常在社会讨论里面被掩盖起来的题材写出来了。
评分##This demonstrates how pain and powerlessness being written in a beautiful way can be so touching in a melancholic way.
评分##英文有声书。题材优，非常讨巧。文笔其实也好就是看多了有点烦。但是内容真的普通甚至有点啰嗦。作者本人自己来读有声书真是败笔，这个不知道是语速还是语气还是停顿感觉分分钟要断气，听得令人烦躁想打人。
评分##This demonstrates how pain and powerlessness being written in a beautiful way can be so touching in a melancholic way.
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