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安妮·赖斯lài sī de zuò pǐn yǐ shēng dòng miáo xiě kǒng bù qíng jié 'ér zhù chēng， xiǎo shuō de zhù tí duō wéi lì shǐ bèi jǐng xià rén de lí qún suǒ jū jí duì zì wǒ de zhuī qiú， xiǎo shuō zhōng de rén wù zǒng shì xiàn shí shè huì huò fēi xiàn shí shè huì zhōng gū lì de qún tǐ。 rú xī xuè guǐ xì liè zhōng de xī xuè guǐ，《 wàn shèng jié》 zhōng de hùn xuè 'ér， dōushì yī xiē yǔ shè huì gé gé bù rù de gè tǐ。 xī xuè guǐ mào sì rén lèi， yě kě wàng yǔ rén lèi wéi wǔ， dàn zhǐ néng yóu lí yú rén lèi zhī wài；《 wàn shèng jié》 zhōng de hùn xuè 'ér zé wú lùn duō me fù yòu， wú lùn jiē shòu guò hé děng de jiào yù， dōuwú fǎ jìn rù bái rén shè huì。 lài sī de bǐ xià jiù shì zhè yàng yī xiē kǔ kǔ zhuī qiú zì wǒ、 zhuī qiú měi hǎo， què shǐ zhōng bèi shè huì pái chì zài wài， yǒng yuǎn yóu dàng de gū hún yě guǐ。
cóng 1976 nián yǐ《 yè fǎng xī xuè guǐ》 yī shū zài wén tán jué qǐ， qì jīn cháng dá shí 'èr bù de《 xī xuè guǐ jì shì》（ TheVampireChronicles） jiāng tā bǐ xià de xī xuè guǐ shè qún kè lǚ dé màn miào xiān lì， shēng sè duó rén zhī yú gèng chōng chì zhù yù lì bēn liú de yì zhì shēng mìng
lài sī zài 1941 nián shēng yú měi guó niǔ 'ào liáng yī gè dǔ xìn tiān zhù jiào de jiā tíng lǐ， shì sì gè zǐ mèi lǐ de lǎo 'èr。
tā duì xiě zuò yī xiàng yòu nóng hòu xīng qù， dàn zhí dào liù suì dà de nǚ 'ér yīn wéi jí xìng bái xuè qiú guò duō zhèng qù shì hòu， tā cái kāi shǐ chéng wéi yī gè zhuān zhí de zuò jiā， bìng qiě xiě chū yī xì liè yǐ xī xuè guǐ wéi zhù tí de kǒng bù xiǎo shuō。 shēng yù hú qǐ， duǎn duǎn jǐ nián jiān， jiù yuè shēng wéi zhù míng de chàng xiāo zuò jiā。 zài dāng qián jìng zhēng jī liè de měi guó wén tán zhōng， tā yǐ jīng yǎn rán chéng wéi 「 xī xuè guǐ dà shī 」 liǎo。
tā de dì yī bù zuò pǐn jiù shì《 yè fǎng xī xuè guǐ》， lǐ miàn de líng hún rén wù bāo kuò liǎo yī gè zài wǔ、 liù suì dà shí biàn chéng xī xuè guǐ de xiǎo nǚ hái， bù lùn suì yuè rú hé liú shì， xiǎo nǚ hái yǒng yuǎn bù huì zhǎngdà。 zhè yǔ tā zǎo shì de nǚ 'ér jiān yòu hé xiāng guān， nán miǎn yǐn qǐ dú zhě dài zhù tóng qíng de lián xiǎng。
dāng rán， ān nī - lài sī bìng bù zhǐ xiǎng zài shū zhōng wéi nǚ 'ér xún zhǎo shī qù de shēng mìng 'ér yǐ。 tā zài zhè běn《 yè fǎng xī xuè guǐ》 zhōng， bù jǐn dài lǐng dú zhě tàn fǎng liǎo xī xuè guǐ yī xiàng shén mì yōu 'àn de shì jiè， gèng duì shēng mìng de běn zhì zuò shēn rù de sī kǎo yǔ tàn suǒ。 gǔ jīn zhōng wài， duō shǎo fán fū sú zǐ qī pàn cháng shēng bù lǎo； yīn wéi bù kě dé， yǒng shēng gèng shì lìng rén shēn shēn xiàng wǎng。 dàn shì， rú guǒ zhēn de néng gòu dé dào yǒng yuǎn de shēng mìng， yǔ rì yuè tóng shòu， kàn jìn cāng hǎi sāng tián、 rén shì biàn qiān， gū dú dì zǒu guò rén jiànsuì yuè， nà yòu huì shì shénme yàng de gǎn shòu yǔ xīn jìng？
yī bān de xī xuè guǐ xiǎo shuō kě wèi qiān piān yī lǜ， diàn yǐng、 diàn shì yì rán。 juésè píng miàn fū qiǎn， qíng jié jīhū dōuzài yī gè gù dìng de mó shì xià fā zhǎn， dú zhě kàn xí guàn liǎo， sì hū yě bù yǐ wéi yì。 dàn 'ān nī - lài sī de xī xuè guǐ xiǎo shuō， què sì hū wèiwǒ men dǎ kāi liǎo yī shàn chuāng， ràng wǒ men kě yǐ yī kuī xī xuè guǐ de shēng huó yǔ nèi xīn， zhè shí zài ràng kǒng bù xiǎo shuō de 'àihào zhě dà gǎn zhèn fèn ---- bù jǐn shì duì tā zuò pǐn de chuàng yì， yě duì tā tàn tǎo de shēn dù。 tā bù zhǐ shì wéi xī xuè guǐ de gù shì dǎ kāi liǎo yī shàn chuāng， gèng wéi kǒng bù xiǎo shuō kāi qǐ liǎo yī piàn xīn tiān dì。
《 yè fǎng xī xuè guǐ》 zhè běn shū ràng 'ān nī - lài sī yī pào 'ér hóng， rán 'ér， yǔ qí shuō zhè shì yī běn kǒng bù xiǎo shuō， bù rú shuō tā shì yī běn yǐ xī xuè guǐ wéi zhù tí de wén xué zuò pǐn。 suī rán tā qíng jié de qū zhé xīn qí， rén wù de xiān huó shēng dòng， shǐ tā jù yòu tōng sú xiǎo shuō yīngyǒu de shì chǎng xī yǐn lì。 dàn 'ān nī - lài sī yōu měi xì nì de wén zì， jiā shàng duì shēng mìng běn zhì de tàn tǎo， què shǐ dé zhè běn shū jù yòu fēng fù de wén xué xìng gé， bù shì yī bān jiān jiào lián lián xuè xīng zhèn zhèn de kǒng bù xiǎo shuō suǒ kě yǐ bǐ nǐ de。
zài 'ān nī - lài sī de bǐ xià， xī xuè guǐ suǒ néng dé dào de zuì dà ròu tǐ huān yú lái zì shā rén， yīn cǐ duì xī xuè guǐ 'ér yán， nán、 nǚ、 lǎo、 shǎo， jiē shì pí xiāng； zài xī xuè guǐ zhī jiān， xìng bié de chā yì xiǎn rán bù jù yì yì， xī xuè guǐ zhī jiān de 'ài， zài jí dà chéng dù shàng shì shǔ yú jīng shén céng cì de， chāo yuè xìng bié、 nián líng děng yī qiē rén lèi de sī kǎo mó shì yǔ jià zhí guān。 dāng rán， hé qí tā xī xuè guǐ gù shì yī yàng， běn shū zhōng de xī xuè guǐ yě shā rén， ér qiě bù duàn dì shā rén。 dàn shì yǐ wǎng dú zhě duō cóng rén lèi de guān diǎn lái kàn dài zhè jiàn shì， xiàn zài zài zhè běn shū zhōng， dú zhě kě yǐ huàn gè jiǎo dù， jiè zhe zhè yīcháng kòu rén xīn xián de zhuān fǎng， shì zhù cóng xī xuè guǐ de jiǎo dù lái kàn shì qíng ---- bāo kuò shēng mìng de cún xù yǔ yǔn miè。
ān nī - lài sī shì gè duō chǎn zuò jiā， yǐ xiě yòu 30 duō bù xiǎo shuō， chú liǎo xī xuè guǐ xì liè zhī wài， hái yòu《 biān dǎ zhě》，《 mó fǎ shí kè》，《 wàn shèng jié》，，《 xiàng tiān kū qì》 děng。《 yè fǎng xī xuè guǐ》 shì xī xuè guǐ xì liè zhōng de dì yī bù， yīn xiǎo shuō qián suǒ wèi yòu dì zhǎn xiàn liǎo yī gè xī xuè guǐ shì jiè， xī yǐn liǎo zhòng duō de dú zhě， yuán wén de xiāo shòu liàng yǐ dá 200 duō wàn cè。 suī rán píng lùn jiè duì zhī bāo biǎn bù yī， rán qí yǐng xiǎng zhī guǎng fàn， lìng rén xǐng mù。
Early years
Rice spent most of her early life in New Orleans, Louisiana, which forms the background against which most of her stories take place. She was the second daughter in a Catholic Irish-American family; Rice's sister, the late Alice Borchardt, also became a noted genre author. About her unusual given name, Rice said: "My birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. My father's name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do."
Rice became "Anne" on her first day of school, when a nun asked her what her name was. She told the nun "Anne," considering it a pretty name. Her mother, who was with her, let it go without correcting her, knowing how self-conscious her daughter was of her real name. From that day on, everyone she knew addressed her as "Anne."
Rice graduated from Richardson High School, in 1959, to attend Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas and later North Texas State College. After a year’s stay in San Francisco, during which she worked as an insurance claims examiner, Anne returned to Denton, Texas to marry Stan Rice, her childhood sweetheart. Stan became an instructor at San Francisco State shortly after receiving his M.A. there, and Anne lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1962 to 1988, experiencing the birth of the Hippie Revolution first hand as they lived in the soon to be fabled Haight-Ashbury district. Both attended and graduated from San Francisco State University.
Anne's daughter Michele was born on September 21, 1966 and died of leukemia on August 5, 1972. She returned to the Catholic Church in 1998 after several years of describing herself as an atheist. She announced she would now use her life and talent of writing to glorify her belief in God, but has not expressly renounced her earlier works. Her son Christopher Rice was born in Berkeley, California in 1978 and is a best selling author.
On January 30, 2004, having already put the largest of her three homes up for sale, Rice announced her plans to leave New Orleans. She cited living alone since the death of her husband as the reason. "Simplifying my life, not owning so much, that's the chief goal", said Rice. "I'll no longer be a citizen of New Orleans in the true sense." Rice had left New Orleans prior to the events of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and none of her former New Orleans properties were flooded. She remains a vocal advocate for the city and related relief projects.
After leaving New Orleans Rice settled in Rancho Mirage, California, allowing her to be closer to her son, who lives in Los Angeles.
Writing career
In 1958, when Rice was 16, her father moved the family to north Texas, taking up residence in Richardson. Her mother had died three years before of alcoholism. Rice met her future husband while they were both students at Richardson High School. She began college at Texas Woman's University in Denton but relocated with Stan to San Francisco where Anne attended San Francisco State University and obtained a B.A. in Political Science. "I'm a totally conservative person," she later told the New York Times (November 7, 1988). "In the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square." She would not return to New Orleans until 1989. She completed her first book, Interview with the Vampire, in 1973 and published it in 1976. This book would be the first in Rice's popular Vampire Chronicles series, which now includes over a dozen novels, including 1985's The Vampire Lestat and 1988's The Queen of the Damned. Along with several non-series works, Rice has written three novels in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches sequence. Additionally, Rice wrote three erotic novels under the pseudonym "A. N. Roquelaure."
In October 2004, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would henceforth "write only for the Lord." Her subsequent book, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, she calls the beginning of a series chronicling the life of Jesus. The second volume, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, was published in March 2008.
Return to Roman Catholicism
In 2005, Newsweek reported, "[Rice] came close to death last year, when she had surgery for an intestinal blockage, and also back in 1998, when she went into a sudden diabetic coma; that same year she returned to the Roman Catholic Church, which she'd left at 18." . Her return has not come with a full embrace of the Church's stances on social issues; Rice remains a supporter of equality for gay men and lesbians (including marriage rights), as well as abortion rights and birth control. Rice has written extensively on the matter:
In the Author's Note from Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, Rice states:
I had experienced an old fashioned, strict Roman Catholic childhood in the 1940s and 1950s… we attended daily Mass and communion in an enormous and magnificently decorated church … Stained glass windows, the Latin Mass, the detailed answers to complex questions on good and evil—these things were imprinted on my soul forever… I left this church at age 18... I wanted to know what was happening, why so many seemingly good people didn’t believe in any organized religion yet cared passionately about their behavior and value of their lives… I broke with the church violently and totally... I wrote many novels that without my being aware of it reflected my quest for meaning in a world without God.
In her memoir Called Out of Darkness, Rice also states:
In the moment of surrender, I let go of all the theological or social questions which had kept me from [God] for countless years. I simply let them go. There was the sense, profound and wordless, that if He knew everything I did not have to know everything, and that, in seeking to know everything, I’d been, all of my life, missing the entire point. No social paradox, no historic disaster, no hideous record of injustice or misery should keep me from Him. No question of Scriptural integrity, no torment over the fate of this or that atheist or gay friend, no worry for those condemned and ostracized by my church or any other church should stand between me and Him. The reason? It was magnificently simple: He knew how or why everything happened; He knew the disposition of every single soul. He wasn’t going to let anything happen by accident! Nobody was going to go to Hell by mistake.
Personal quotes
Excerpts from Anne's Profession of Faith
In 1998 I returned to the Catholic Church… I realized that the greatest thing I could do to show my complete love for Him was to consecrate my work to Him—to use any talent I had acquired as a writer, as a storyteller, as a novelist—for Him and for Him alone... Thence began my journey into intense Biblical study, intense historical research, and intense effort to write novels about the Jesus of Scripture, the Jesus of Faith, in His own vibrant First Century World...
Excerpts from Essay On Earlier Works
My vampire novels and other novels I’ve written... are attempting to be transformative stories… All these novels involve a strong moral compass. Evil is never glorified in these books; on the contrary, the continuing battle against evil is the subject of the work. The search for the good is the subject of the work… Interview with the Vampire... is about the near despair of an alienated being who searches the world for some hope that his existence can have meaning. His vampire nature is clearly a metaphor for human consciousness or moral awareness. The major theme of the novel is the misery of this character because he cannot find redemption and does not have the strength to end the evil of which he knows himself to be a part. This book reflects for me a protest against the post World War II nihilism to which I was exposed in college from 1960 through 1972. It is an expression of grief for a lost religious heritage that seemed at that time beyond recovery... One thing which unites [my books] is the theme of the moral and spiritual quest. A second theme, key to most of them, is the quest of the outcast for a context of meaning, whether that outcast is an 18th century castrato opera singer, or a young boy of mixed blood coming of age in ante-bellum New Orleans, or a person forced into a monstrous predatory existence like the young vampire, Lestat… In 1976, I felt that the vampire was the perfect metaphor for the outcast in all of us, the alienated one in all of us, the one who feels lost in a world seemingly without God. In 1976, I felt I existed in such a world, and I was searching for God. I never dreamed that the word, vampire, would prevent people from examining this book as a metaphysical work. I thought the use of the word was a powerful device... The entire body of my earlier work reflects a movement towards Jesus Christ. In 2002, I consecrated my work to Jesus Christ. This did not involve a denunciation of works that reflected the journey. It was rather a statement that from then on I would write directly for Jesus Christ. I would write works about salvation, as opposed to alienation.
Amazon.com Reviews
On amazon.com Rice has written reviews on some of her favorite artists, recordings, books and films. Her reviews cover artists such as violinists Hilary Hahn and Leila Josefowicz, books from scholars such as Prof. Ellis Rivkin, the Bishop of Durham and N.T. Wright, films such as The Nun's Story starring Audrey Hepburn and The Bourne Supremacy starring Matt Damon. For Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Rice wrote:
"This is one of the greatest productions of Shakespeare I've ever seen... [Branagh] delivers Shakespeare's glorious lines in a way that makes them clear, and brings them to life with incalculable power... This is one of those feasts for the eyes and ears like Amadeus or Immortal Beloved, or the Red Shoes."
Adaptations
Film
In 1994, Neil Jordan directed a relatively faithful motion picture adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, from Rice's own screenplay. The movie starred Tom Cruise as Lestat, Brad Pitt as the guilt-ridden Louis and was a breakout role for young Kirsten Dunst as the deceitful child vampire Claudia.
A second film adaptation, The Queen of the Damned, was released in 2002. Starring Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat and singer Aaliyah as Akasha, Queen of the Vampires, the movie combined incidents from the second and third books in the series: The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Produced on a budget of $35 million, the film only recouped $30 million at the domestic(US) box office.
A 1994 film titled Exit to Eden, based loosely on the book Rice published as Anne Rampling, starred Rosie O'Donnell and Dan Aykroyd. The work transformed from a love story into a police comedy, possibly due to the explicit S&M themes of the book. The film was a box office flop.
A film version of Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt was planned but later cancelled.
Television
In 1997 she wrote a television pilot entitled Rag and Bone starring Dean Cain and Robert Patrick, which featured many of the common themes of her work.
The Feast of All Saints was made into a miniseries in 2001 by director Peter Medak.
Plans to adapt Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy into a twelve-hour miniseries to be aired on NBC were dropped after a change of studio head and subsequent loss of interest in the project.
Theatre
In 1997, a ballet adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, premiered in Prague.
On April 25, 2006, the musical Lestat, based on Rice's Vampire Chronicles books, opened at the Palace Theatre on Broadway after having its world premiere in San Francisco, California in December 2005. With music by Elton John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin, it was the inaugural production of the newly established Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures.
Despite Rice's own overwhelming approval and praise, the show received mostly poor reviews by critics and disappointing attendance. Lestat closed a month later on May 28, 2006, after just 33 previews and 39 regular performances.
Comics
Anne Rice's books have been adapted over the years into comics. Below is a list of known adaptations and issue runs; along with publisher and year.
* Anne Rice's The Mummy or Ramses the Damned #1-12 by Millennium Comics (1990)
* Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire #1-12 by Innovation Comics (1992)
* Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned #1-6 by Innovation Comics (1991)
* Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief #1-12 by Sicilian Dragon (1999)
* Anne Rice's The Vampire Companion #1-3 by Innovation Comics (1991)
* Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat #1-14 by Innovation Comics (1990)
* Anne Rice's The Witching Hour #1-5 by Millennium Publishing (1992)
Fan fiction
Rice has an adamant stance against fan fiction based on her work, releasing a statement on April 7, 2000, that prohibited all such efforts. This caused the removal of thousands of "fanfics" from the FanFiction.Net website.
Music
Cradle of Filth briefly includes Lestat in the song "Libertina Grimm" as "Count Lestat".
Guitarist Steve Vai states in liner notes for his album The Elusive Light and Sound volume 1, that his song "Loveblood" was inspired by the film and the fact that he wished he was an actor so he could play the role.
Alternative rock band Concrete Blonde's song "Bloodletting (the Vampire Song)", the title track from the Bloodletting CD, is based on Rice's The Vampire Lestat.
Sting released a song on the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles entitled "Moon Over Bourbon Street", after reading Interview with the Vampire.
The Australian pop band Savage Garden found their name in The Vampire Lestat, in which Lestat describes the world as "the savage garden."
The metalcore band Atreyu declares in the song "The Crimson," "I'm an Anne Rice novel come to life."
Punk/goth band The Damned recorded a song called "The Dog" about the child vampire Claudia from Interview with the Vampire on their 1982 album Strawberries.
The Italian band Theatres des Vampires is named after a location featured in several books of The Vampire Chronicles. Their 1999 album is called The Vampire Chronicles.
Post-hardcore band Aiden wrote and recorded a song entitled "The Last Sunrise"—a lot of the lyrics of said song relate directly to the first book of The Vampire Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire.
Malice Mizer, a Japanese rock band based heavily on French culture, uses the phrase "Drink from me and live forever" in their song "Transylvania." "Drink from me and live forever" is a phrase from the first book Interview With the Vampire.
Mexican band Santa Sabina dedicates a song to Rice's vampire character Louis: "Una canción para Louis."
Psytrance project Talamasca was named after the secret society in both the Vampire chronicles and the Mayfair Witches series. This is a solo project by the French musician Cedric Dassulle, which also calls himself DJ Lestat.
Japanese visual kei metal band Versailles first album, Noble, is subtitled "Vampires Chronicle." Furthermore, the sixth song is entitled "After Cloudia", insinuating a relationship with Claudia from the series. The lead singer, Kamijo has stated he models himself after Rice's character, Lestat de Lioncourt.
Italian gothic rock group Last Minute's first album, Burning Theater, was conceived as an unofficial soundtrack for Interview with the Vampire, including the title track and two others, all focusing heavily on the death of Claudia.