词条 | The Lost Weekend (novel) |
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| name = The Lost Weekend | title_orig = | translator = | image = Lostweekend.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Charles R. Jackson | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Novel | publisher = Farrar & Rinehart | release_date = 1944 | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = 244 pp | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}The Lost Weekend is Charles R. Jackson's first novel, published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1944. The story of a talented but alcoholic writer was praised for its powerful realism, closely reflecting the author’s own experience of alcoholism, from which he was temporarily cured. It served as the basis for a film adaptation by the same name in 1945.[1] SynopsisSet in a rundown neighborhood of Manhattan in 1936, the novel explores a five-day alcoholic binge. Don Birnam, a binge drinker mostly of rye, fancies himself as a writer. He lapses into foreign phrases and quotes Shakespeare even while attempting to steal a woman's purse, trying to pawn a typewriter for drinking money, and smashing his face on a banister. That accident gets him checked into an "alcoholic ward." There, a counselor advises Birnam on the nature of alcoholism:
Perhaps the only thing keeping Birnam from drinking himself to death is his girlfriend Helen, a selfless and incorruptible woman who tolerates his behavior out of love. Helen does, however, upbraid him with the words: "I haven't got time to be neurotic." No sooner has he begun to recover from his "Lost Weekend" than he contemplates killing Helen's maid to get the key to the liquor cabinet. He has a few drinks and crawls into bed wondering, "Why did they make such a fuss?" Reception and critical analysisThe book was a best-seller and received rave reviews. Philip Wylie wrote in the New York Times Book Review that "Charles Jackson has made the most compelling gift to the literature of addiction since De Quincey. His character is a masterpiece of psychological precision."[2] Sinclair Lewis called it "the only unflinching story of an alcoholic that I have ever read".[3] Anthony Slide, a modern editor, notes the work is obviously semi-autobiographical [1] It is sometimes seen as the seminal addiction memoir in American literature, a precursor to such works as Augusten Burroughs' Dry or David Carr's The Night of the Gun.{{citation needed|date=January 2011}} Malcolm Lowry, who had been working for more than 10 years on the novel that appeared as Under the Volcano in 1947, resented Jackson's success with The Lost Weekend, especially Jackson's use of an alcoholic to represent the modern man's condition.[4] The book has also been noted for having homosexual overtones with a strong implication that Don Birnam, just like Charles Jackson, is a closet homosexual.[5][6] Film adaptation{{Main article|The Lost Weekend (film)}}The book was adapted into a 1945 film directed by Billy Wilder featuring Ray Milland as Don Birnam. Although the movie adaptation hews closely to the novel, the novel differed in one respect: Birnam is described in the novel as being tormented by a homosexual incident in college. That is omitted from the film.[1] References
1. ^1 2 Slide, page 101 2. ^New York Times: [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0714F6395C167B93C2AA178AD85F408485F9& Phiip Wyle, review of The Lost Weekend, January 30, 1944], accessed January 23, 2011 3. ^Mark Schorer, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1961), 71 4. ^Crowley, pages 135-6 5. ^Austen, page 95 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://knopfdoubleday.com/tag/the-lost-weekend/|title='Farther and Wilder' by Blake Bailey|accessdate=May 13, 2016}}
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