Look Back in Anger - John Osborne

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne

出版社

Penguin Books

出版时间

1982-11-25

ISBN

9780140481754

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper classes and the established political institutions with disdain. Although the form of the play was not revolutionary, its content was unexpected. On stage for the first time were the 20- to 30-year-olds of Great Britain who had not participated in World War II and who found its aftermath lacking in promise. The hero, Jimmy Porter, has reached an uncomfortably marginal position on the border of the middle class, from which he can see the traditional possessors of privilege holding the better jobs and threatening his upward climb.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 英国“愤怒的青年”运动开山之作,批判战后社会僵化
  • 主角吉米用尖刻语言宣泄对中产阶级虚伪的愤怒与不满
  • 展现战后英国青年在阶级固化下的迷茫、失落与挣扎
适合谁读
  • 对英国文学史及战后社会思潮感兴趣的读者
  • 喜欢现实主义戏剧及深刻人物心理描写的爱好者
  • 关注阶级议题及存在主义焦虑的文艺青年
读前提醒
  • 原著语言犀利粗粝,建议阅读英文原版以体会精髓
  • 剧情冲突集中,需耐心品味角色间的情感张力与隐喻
  • 结合五十年代英国社会背景阅读,更能理解人物愤怒根源
读者共识
  • 语言极具解放性,成功塑造了吉米这一经典愤怒形象
  • 部分读者认为剧本结构略逊于大师,但情感冲击力强
  • 女主角海伦娜的结局常引发读者共鸣与深刻反思

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录
  • "When you see a woman in front of her dressing table, you will realise what a refined sort of a butcher she is."
  • "我多么渴望能够有那么点点儿普通人的热情。就一点儿热情那就很够了。我多么渴望听到一一个溫和动人的声音,高声城出“阿利路亚①”!(他演戏似的捶打着自己的胸膛)阿利路亚!我是活人!我想起来了。咱們于嘛不好来点儿小小的游戏?咱們来假装咱們是人,是眞正活着。就装那么一会儿。你們說怎么样?让咱們来假装咱們是人。(他对他們两人来回地看着)哦,老弟,不知道已經有多久了,我还一直沒再遇到个什么人对任何事情有过一点点儿眞正的热情。"
  • "这样,“三十年代的正常生活垮台了……又是恐怖,又是英国社会主义①的并不奇怪的失败,又是冷战以及冷战所預示的那种难以想象的灾难…②正是这样的社会环境,产生了所謂“愤怒的青年”。 这些所謂“愤怒的青年”主要是指一群在五十年代进行创作活动的青年作家,他們大都出身于下层中产阶级或工人的家庭,但受过相当的资产阶级教育,有些还是从牛津或劍桥大学毕业出来的。他们离开学校后,却不能找到合乎理想的职业,于是有的在外省的大学或普通中学里任教,有的在图书館一类的机关里找个工作勉强糊口,有的在一般不出名的剧团里充当演员,更有一些则只能做个小买卖来雅持生活,像本剧中的吉米·波特似的。这一群敏感的、然而又是社会地位不高、"
用户评论
"we are just as common as dirt."
The bear and squirrel game.
英美戏剧
看得很难受
I could easily let this book change my life forever. Or rather it has disturbingly insinuated a terminal diagnosis for me. The failure to penetrate an atrophied mind, the rejection in the form of silence, a bare-chested manifesto brutally alienated... nothing seems to be immortal except the burning anger.
@2020-06-14 00:12:08
一共3幕,高潮处都很精彩,不过剧情俗套。英国二战后的愤青,好像不管哪国哪朝都存在,没有信仰,没有信念,也没有热情。熊和松鼠不同种类可能也暗喻男女主不同阶级吧。
第三幕写的好,前面,尤其是第二幕,太拖沓
I see the groundbreaking meaning of this play to Britain history in the 50s but nothing other than that😊
前半部分比后半部分好得多。主角是唯一精彩的角色。不完美,但有力量。对于拥挤,无私人空间,永远被别人听的生存状态的戏剧表现。
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