《Girl with a Pearl Earring》是2001年1月8日Penguin Random House US出版的圖書，作者是TracyChevalier（崔西·雪佛蘭）。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Girl with a Pearl Earring
- 作者：TracyChevalier（崔西·雪佛蘭）
- 出版社：Penguin Random House US
- ISBN：9780452282155
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
葛麗葉是一個家境貧寒的美麗姑娘，應聘來到畫家維梅爾家做女傭。在畫家的家裡，葛麗葉第一次接觸到了奇妙的繪畫世界，這些美妙的繪畫喚醒了她潛在的藝術敏感，與此同時，維梅爾也被葛麗葉的藝術天分和美好氣質打動，他經常要葛麗葉幫助調配畫料。葛麗葉的聰穎、文靜和美麗使維梅爾爆發出強烈的藝術靈感，她成為了維梅爾的模特，開始了維梅爾新的創作。於是葛麗葉開始了每天與維梅爾凝眸對視，她看到一個她以往世界裡從沒有過的神奇男人，他那樣自如地把握著色彩和線條，他在她面前構築了一個栩栩如生的美麗世界。這對於一個單純的少女來說，不可能是無動於衷的，情感的天平失衡了，渴望在她內心滋生，她迷戀上畫家維梅爾的藝術才華，願意為他付出一切來協助他完成作品。她情不自禁地融入到維梅爾的情懷及他的浪漫色彩世界裡，也漸漸成為其作品的一部分。
但在他們之間，似乎隔著一堵透明的，無法跨越的玻璃牆！ 在葛麗葉和維梅爾之間，有掌管維梅爾家經濟實權的刁鑽岳母，有表面高貴優雅實際嫉妒成性的維梅爾夫人，還有無法逾越的身份和地位。當那幅《戴珍珠耳環的少女》的作品完成之後，葛麗葉被那兩個氣急敗壞的女人趕出了畫家府邸，最後嫁給了一個屠夫的兒子。葛麗葉是沉默的，因為在那個上流社會裡，窮苦女孩沒有說話的權利，她的語言都在那雙眼睛裡，那種悄然穿過門縫的注視，那雙懷有新奇渴望的怯怯目光。 最終，灰姑娘並沒有變成白天鵝。但我們總也忘不了，那清澈的目光，純潔的眼神，以及珍珠般晶瑩剔透的心靈。
作者簡介
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Tracy Chevalier moved to London in 1984 after earning her bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College in Ohio. Intending to return after six months, she lives there still.
Chevalier worked for several years as a literary editor for a reference book publisher, editing encyclopedias about writers and literature. In 1994, she graduated with a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Her first novel, chosen by W. H. Smith for its prestigious Fresh Talent promotion, was published in the U.K. in 1997. Set in France and Switzerland, The Virgin Blue explores the persecution of French Huguenots in the 16th-century through the lens of a contemporary American woman, who unravels the puzzling secrets of her own ancestry. The Virgin Blue will have its first American publication in a Plume edition to be published in 2002.
Chevalier lives with her husband and son and is at work on a third novel, set in London at the dawn of the 20th-century. To date, she has stood face-to-face with 28 of Johannes Vermeer's 35 known paintings. One of her primary goals in life is to see them all in person.
崔西·雪佛蘭，一九六二年出生於華盛頓首府，一九八四年遷居英格蘭，一九九四年她從英國東安哥拉大學畢業後，獲得創意寫作碩士學位。崔西與丈夫及兒子居住於倫敦。她希望能看遍維梅爾一生中所完成的三十五幅畫作的真跡（如今她已看過二十八幅）。《戴珍珠耳環的女孩》以過去時代女人試圖突破環境限制、改變自身命運為描寫主題。
