Analysis of Alice Monroe's Escape

Women talk about birth, disease and death.

Monroe was born in Ottawa and spent most of his time in this quiet city. Her novels are all about love and family life among the civilians in this suburban town, but they all involve serious themes related to life, illness, death and illness. This woman writer's brushwork is unpretentious, but she delicately depicts the plain and true face of life, bringing people sincere and profound emotions, and plain words bring rich emotions, which just shows the most essential energy of literature. Many people compare her with Faulkner and O 'Connor, who describe life in the southern United States, while American Jewish writer Cynthia Ozick even called Monroe a "contemporary Chekhov". In many European and American media comments, she was generously awarded the title of "the greatest contemporary novelist".

Monroe's stories are mostly about women. In her early works, some girls have just entered family life and are worried about love, sex, betrayal and children. In the later stage, women are struggling with middle-aged crisis and trivial life, but they all have desires and regrets, and they are both strong and weak.

Monroe's novels don't pay special attention to the plot, but break up the memory and real life by changing time and space, which also shows her point of view: seeing the world, maybe from another angle, literature can help people to know the world again. She once introduced the way of reading novels in an essay: "Novels are not like roads, but more like houses. You go in, stay for a while, take a walk, observe the relationship between the room and the corridor, and then look out of the window from this angle to see what has changed in the outside world. "

Tell the fate of ordinary women

Runaway is Alice Munro's work in 2004. This book consists of eight short stories, three of which are interrelated. This book will be published by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House in the near future and translated by the famous translator Li Wenjun. This article is a postscript to the translation of this book.

In recent years, Alice Munro's works have been frequently read in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Paris Review. Her works are often included in the collection of the best short stories of the year published in the United States. She publishes a new collection of novels almost every two or three years. She won the most important governor award in Canada three times and the Gilles Award twice. In 2004, I won the Gilles Prize for the second time for this book "Escape". The judges praised the book as "unforgettable story, accurate and unique language, concise and beautiful, and memorable after reading." China's World Literature and other publications have also translated and commented on her works many times. It can be said that Monroe's position in the field of English novels has been established, and she can be called a "leader" in English short story creation. Some people have called her "our Chekhov" (American woman writer Cynthia Ozick). British woman writer A. S. Byatt also praised her as "the greatest living short story writer".

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