tan amy人物简介

Amy Tan人物简介:谭恩美（Amy Tan），著名美籍华裔女作家，1952年出生于美国加州奥克兰，曾就读医学院，后取得语言学硕士学位。

作品有《喜福会》、《灶神之妻》(又译《灶君娘娘》)、《接骨师之女》、《沉没之鱼》等。

谭恩美三十三岁开始写小说，后出版第一部长篇小说《喜福会》，自此奠定了她在文学界的声誉。

《喜福会》生动地描写了母女之间的微妙的感情，这本小说不仅获得该年度国家书卷奖，还被改编成了电影，创下了极高的票房佳绩。

谭恩美在《喜福会》之后，还出版了《灶神之妻》(The Kitchen God's Wife)及《百种神秘感觉》(The Hundred Secret Senses)，两部都是畅销书。

曾就读医学院，后取得语言学硕士学位。

她因处女作《喜福会》而一举成名，成为当代美国的畅销作家。

著有长篇小说《灶神之妻》、《灵感女孩》和为儿童创作的《月亮夫人》、《中国暹罗猫》等，作品被译成20多种文字在世界上广为流传。

艾米·谭是当代讲故事的高手。

她是一个具有罕见才华的优秀作家，能触及人们的心灵。

异样人生:谭恩美在《命运的反面》里自述曾在十六岁时，为了新交的男友，和母亲发生了激烈争吵。

母亲把她到墙边，举着切肉刀，刀锋压在她喉咙上有20分钟。

最后，她垮了下来，哭泣着求母亲：“我想活下去，我想活下去。

”母亲才把切肉刀从她脖子上拿开。

在叛逆的青春期，她出过两次车祸；被人用枪指着抢劫，几乎被强奸；受到死亡威胁，几乎被泥石流冲走。

20多岁那年，她最好的朋友在生日那天被入室抢劫者捆绑勒死，她被叫去辨认尸体，从此中途辍学，放弃博士学位。

晚年的母亲还告诉她一个秘密：她在中国大陆有3个同母异父的姐姐。

这个秘密深深震撼了谭恩美，成了她创作的主题。

作品描述:1987年，谭恩美根据外婆和母亲的经历，写成了小说《喜福会》，并于1989年出版该书。

该书一出版就大获成功，连续40周登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，销量达到500万册，并获得了“全美图书奖”等一系列文学大奖，还被好莱坞拍成了电影，创下了极高的票房佳绩。

《喜福会》以四对母女的故事为经纬，生动地描写了母女之间的微妙的感情，奠定了她在文学界的声誉。

谭恩美接连又完成了《灶神之妻》和《接骨师之女》。

谭恩美的新书《沉没之鱼》，原名《救救溺水鱼》，这本小说写了5年时间。

为写这本小说，谭恩美和朋友专门去缅甸体验生活。

在那里，她亲眼目睹了人们被强逼测试地雷，身体被炸得四肢分离，面孔扭曲。

“我在小说里思考的问题是：我们该如何面对他人的苦难？”谭恩美说。

《沉没之鱼》的中文版的故事背景和英文版有些不同。

考虑到谭恩美的书在内地的销量不理想，出版社找来了出生于1970年代的中国畅销书作家蔡骏在中文翻译稿的基础上进行了改写。

此举方便了它的市场推广，使得这本书的首印量高达85000册。

作品特色:谭恩美擅长描写母女之间的感情纠葛，不少小说家以此为写作题材，但身为第二代华裔的谭恩美，比起其他作家多了一层文化挣扎。

谭恩美常以在美国出生的华裔女性为主角，这群华裔女性不但面对种族认同的问题，还必须随来自父母的压力。

母亲们来自战乱频繁的中国，通常有段不堪回首的过去，来到新大陆之后，她们把所有的希望寄托在女儿身上，“望女不成凤”的心情却带给女儿极大的压力；母亲们更用传统方式管教女儿，传统的中国父母不习惯赞美小孩，而且要求子女绝对服从，女儿们眼见美国父母“民主式”的教育方式，再看到自己连英文都说不好的母亲，心里更是愤愤不平。

母女并非不爱彼此，但碍于文化与年龄的隔阂，不是不知如何表达关爱，就是表错了意，结果往往两个最亲密的人，却往往对彼此造成最严重的伤害。

她的母亲:1999年11月21日，谭恩美的母亲（Daisy Tan）由于老年痴呆症于83岁高龄逝世。

对于谭恩美来说，母亲是她灵感的源泉，她1989年的著名作品《喜福会》就是题献给母亲的。

另外，她1991年发表的小说《灶神之妻》也取材于母亲离开虐待她的丈夫及3个女儿，于1949年离开上海来到美国的故事。

谭恩美在第二天接受旧金山媒体访问时动情地回忆说，母亲在20年前曾经问过她一个问题：“如果我死了，你会记得什么呢？”她说：“我明白自己其实并不知道会记得什么，以及什么是重要的。

我的第一本书回答了她的这个问题。

从某种方面说，她真的是我的缪斯女神。

她并不是一位文学中人，她并不读小说，也不读我的绝大多数作品，但她依然是我的缪斯。

“她在生活中遇到很多问题，但她从不认为有什么事情是不可能做到的——我书中所有的一切，其实就是她对于生活的充满希望的精神质。

”作品小说类:《喜福会》（The Joy Luck Club，1989)《灶神之妻》（The Kitchen God's Wife，1991)《百种神秘感觉》（The Hundred Secret Senses，1995) ，又译《灵感女孩》《接骨师之女》（TheBonesetter's Daughter(2001)《沉没之鱼》（Saving Fish from Drowning，2005) ，原译《救救溺水鱼》儿童文学类《月亮夫人》（The Moon Lady，1992)《中国暹罗猫》（Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat，1994)非小说类:《事与愿违》（The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings，2003) ，又译《命运的逆反》、《命运的反面》《中年心腹话》（Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude(with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver，1994)《母亲》Mother (with Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark) (1996)Amy Tan(born on February19th,1952)is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish From Drowning.She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Her most recent novel Saving Fish From Drowning explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition in the jungles of Burma. In addition to these, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS. She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to writePersonal life:Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John Tan, an electrical engineer and Baptist minister, and Daisy, who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. This incident provided the basis for Tan's first novel, 1989 New York Times bestseller The Joy Luck Club[1]Amy is the middle child and only daughter among Daisy and John Tan's three children. In the late 1960s Amy's sixteen-year-old brother Peter died of a brain tumor. Within a year of Peter's death, Amy's father died of the same disease. After these family tragedies, Daisy moved Amy and her younger brother John Jr. to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school.[2]During this period, Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China, and of their four children, including three daughters and a son who died as a toddler. In 1987 Amy traveled with Daisy to China. There, Amy finally met her three half-sisters.[3]Tan received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San José State University, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley[4] She resides in Sausalito, California with her husband, Louis DeMattei, a lawyer whom she met on a blind date and married in 1974.NovelsThe Joy Luck Club (1989)The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)Two Kinds (2000)The Bonesetter's Daughter(2001)Saving Fish from Drowning(2005)Children's booksThe Moon Lady, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1992)Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1994)Non-fiction1.The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003)2.Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude(with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver) (1994)3.Mother (with Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark) (1996)4.The Best American Short Stories 1999(Editor, with Katrina Kenison) (1999)Metaphysical PoetryThe term “metaphysical poetry”(玄学派诗歌) is commonly used to name the work of the 17th –century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. Metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.Main characteristics of Metaphysical poetry：1.The use of the conceit---a witty comparison between things at first sight utterly unlike each other (Emphasizing thought by fantastic metaphors and extravagant hyperboles, strange imageries and obscure language).2. Argumentative or logical structure.pressed and difficult; there is very little writing which is purely ornamental or descriptive .4. Vivid and colloquial language, suggestive of the rhythms of ordinary speech.Metaphysical PoetryDefinition:1. Coined by Samuel Johnson, the term “metaphysical poetry” refers to the work of a wide-ranging group of poets and their distinct and varying poetic styles and temperaments in 17th century Britain2. “Metaphysical poetry, in the full sense of the term,” as Grierson writes, “is a poe try which has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the rôle assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence.”3. The term 'metaphysical poetry' is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne(1572-1631).From selected reading of British and American literatureThe label "metaphysical" was given much later by Samuel Johnson in his Life of Cowley. These poets themselves did not form a school or start a movement; most of them did not even know or read each other.The Characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry:1] the conceit--"farfetched," "combination of dissimilar images," "heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together"--NB greater intellectuality than Petrarchan conceit;2] complexity & obscurity;3] paradox;4] exaggeration, hyperbole;5] rebellion against Petrarchan and Elizabethan poetic conventions;6] colloquial language;7] natural speech rhythms or extreme distortions of metrical patterns--"modulation so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables";8] irregular lines and stanzas;9] argumentative form and content;10] persona & situation--like dramatic monologueMain poets :The most important topics of metaphysical poets were love and religion.John Donne (The Flea, Holy Sonnets, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning),John Donne is the leading figure of the 'metaphysical school'.His poems give a more inherently theatrical impression by exhibiting a seemingly unfocused diversity of experiences and attitudes,and a free range of feelings and moods.The mode is dynamic rather than static,with ingenuity of speech,vividness of imagery and vitality of thythms,which show a notable contrast to the other Elizabethan lyric poems which are pure,serene,tuneful,and smooth-running.The most striking features of Donne's poetry is precisely its tang of reality,in the sense that it seems to reflect life in a real rather than a poetical world.Other poets: Robert Herrick, Richard Crashaw, George Herbert (Easter Wings), Andrew Marvell (The Definition of Love, To his Coy Mistress)。