The Handmaid's Tale

[Jun]

Twitter 给我推了无数广告，终于推了一个有效的。Hulu 制作了 The Handmaid's Tale 改编的电视剧，四月底开播。

剧集主页：
https://www.hulu.com/the-handmaids-tale

这部小说我一直想看而不敢看。

这里有篇作者自述，写于2012年，read this and weep:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/ ... ret-atwood

Nations never build apparently radical forms of government on foundations that aren't there already. Thus China replaced a state bureaucracy with a similar state bureaucracy under a different name, the USSR replaced the dreaded imperial secret police with an even more dreaded secret police, and so forth. The deep foundation of the US – so went my thinking – was not the comparatively recent 18th-century Enlightenment structures of the republic, with their talk of equality and their separation of church and state, but the heavy-handed theocracy of 17th-century Puritan New England, with its marked bias against women, which would need only the opportunity of a period of social chaos to reassert itself.

[april]

The Handmaid's Tale和The Cat's Eye是我大学时唯二喜欢的Atwood. 自己买了书看了又看。1984我试过好几次却怎么都看不进去。之后的Atwood的小说我也看过一些，感觉平平。去年刚把The Cat's Eye重温一遍，依然非常非常喜欢。The Handmaid's Tale已经很久没有重读了，也许该再看一遍。

推特也在天天给我推这个电视剧，等开播了瞅瞅。。。

[april]

小说重读完毕。没有记忆中那么好。但是还是看得出为什么年轻的自己会喜欢它。
Atwood说是自己research 17th century US是受到启发写的。再联系到CNP的宗旨。不寒而栗。

刚发现原来hulu的电视剧主演是Mad Men里的Elizebath Moss!!! 我居然没认出来她。