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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)

de Shirley Jackson

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8,0494221,072 (4.07)1 / 808
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
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    Rebecca de Daphne Du Maurier (teelgee)
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    The Wasp Factory de Iain Banks (taz_)
    taz_: I suspect that Iain Banks' "Wasp Factory" character Frank Cauldhame was inspired by Shirley Jackson's Merricat, as these two darkly memorable teenagers share a great many quirks - the totems and protections to secure their respective "fortresses", the obsessive superstitions that govern their daily lives and routines, their isolation and cloistered pathology, their eccentric families and dark secrets. Be warned, though, that "The Wasp Factory" is a far more explicit and grisly tale than the eerily genteel "Castle" and certainly won't appeal to all fans of the latter.… (mais)
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    A Head Full of Ghosts de Paul Tremblay (sturlington)
    sturlington: Sisters named Merry. Tremblay was clearly influenced strongly by Jackson.
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    Mexican Gothic de Silvia Moreno-Garcia (alalba)
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    The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie de Alan Bradley (citygirl)
    citygirl: Castle is much darker and Flavia is more adorable than creepy (Merricat is quite creepy), but if you're interested in unusual young protagonists, with a very particular world view, try these.
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    The Behaviour of Moths de Poppy Adams (sparemethecensor)
    sparemethecensor: Two sisters with a mysterious relationship and dark history together, unreliable narrators, dark, old, rural houses with mysteries of their own... Though the books take different plotlines, they share so many similar elements that people who enjoyed the setting and storytelling of one will likely enjoy the other.… (mais)
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    Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead de Barbara Comyns (laytonwoman3rd)
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    The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag de Alan Bradley (kraaivrouw)
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    The Franchise Affair de Josephine Tey (lahochstetler)
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    The Hill of Dreams de Arthur Machen (Nialle)
    Nialle: Young, emotionally complex, imaginative narrators in isolated situations - have something going on that the reader only glimpses before the big reveal
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    Where I End de Sophie White (BillPilgrim)
    BillPilgrim: It owes a major debt to We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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    Heartstones de Ruth Rendell (isabelx)
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    The Island at the End of the World de Sam Taylor (passion4reading)
    passion4reading: Though set within completely different landscapes, situations and time periods, each novel has the central theme of an outsider intruding upon an isolated close-knit family group, with disastrous consequences.
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    Goblin de Ever Dundas (wandering_star)
    wandering_star: Similar tone (and Dundas credits Jackson in the book's afterword).
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This is a book I think I need to read analysis of our discuss with others to really get something from it.
  Jenniferforjoy | Jan 29, 2024 |
Huh. Kogu aeg on olnud plaanis ja nüüd lõpuks sattus kätte. Väga. Hea. Lugu. Meenutas natuke "Herilase vabrikut" ja "Tüdrukut, kes armastas tuletikke", aga tegelikult ei ole sarnane. Ainuld see ... tunne, mingi õhkõrn vaib, millele ei ole võimalik kuidagi näppu peale panna.
Lõpp oli natuke mehh, aga ainult juuksekarva võrra ja võtan süü selle pärast täiesti enda peale - kuna minu aju seostas loo millegipärast eelmainitud kahe raamatuga, siis säärast pööret nagu seal ei tule.
Aga hea. Väga hea. ( )
  sashery | Jan 29, 2024 |
4.5 stars ( )
  EllieBhurrut | Jan 24, 2024 |
I'm a big fan of authors who practice what they preach. The best horror writers from Poe to Lovecraft were, and I believe this is a medical term, totally bonkers. Shirley Jackson is an excellent example of someone whose fiction is enhanced because her peccadilloes leaked onto the page. Jackson's works frequently feature a "hysterical" woman who, despite the condescending and paternalistic reassurances of the men around her, is somehow better attuned to supernatural occurrences that may or may not exist. It is impossible not to read these scenes as drawn from her personal experience. She would of course be a worse author if she were simply writing fictional self-validations. But Jackson is also a master of ambiguity. The screaming woman says she saw a ghost; maybe she actually is crazy or maybe we are the guilty party for ignoring her.
This ambiguity is what makes We Have Always Lived in the Castle so great. It is a book that features if not the king of all unreliable narrators than certainly the fairy princess of all unreliable narrators. It is difficult at first to decide whether Merricat's ramblings in the forest and playacting at being a witch are simply childish games or a symptom of something weirder. It is not initially clear that her whimsy masks something quite monstrous.
The ambiguity covers everything. There's no denying that the Blackwoods are persecuted by their bigoted neighbors, but there's also no denying that the Blackwoods were once cruel and elitist and are now totally unhinged. It is evident that cousin Charles is an avaricious snake, and his attentions toward Constance and the Blackwood fortune are domineering and creepily pseudo-sexual. ​But he's not wrong when he castigates Merricat for her arrested development or Constance for her enabling passivity.
The ending makes this a masterpiece. It is a fairy tale made real, a happily-ever-after that the heroines always desired and is therefore truly horrifying. There were always connotations of the Blackwoods as fearsome medieval lords: the house is a castle, their neighbors a village. But the ending transforms them into something even stranger: guardian spirits to be feared but also placated. The peasants give supplications to the white sisters in the ruin to ward off a curse. Merricat becomes the ghost she always wanted to be by a combination of collective trauma, superstition and dysfunction. Brilliant. ( )
  ethorwitz | Jan 3, 2024 |
I was puzzled and chilled as I read this. Enjoyed the repetitions in the text, kept trying to figure out a pattern because of how predictable the lives of the two sisters are but I cannot claim any authority over knowing anything, and Jackson doesn't offer any explanations. Kept feeling conflicted about enjoying the descriptions of food making and food eating amidst darkness and macabre. ( )
  nonameavailablenone | Jan 2, 2024 |
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Of the precocious children and adolescents of mid-twentieth-century American fiction ... none is more memorable than eighteen-year-old "Merricat" of Shirley Jackson's masterpiece of Gothic suspense We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962).
 

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Jackson, Shirleyautor principaltodas as ediçõesconfirmado
Bliss, HarryArtista da capaautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Dunne, BernadetteNarradorautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Franzén, TorkelTradutorautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Lethem, JonathanIntroduçãoautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
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My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
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Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea?
Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep?
Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!
You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine. Is it still in use? you are wondering; has it been cleaned? you may very well ask; was it thoroughly washed?
Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.
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