EntertainmentBooksBook ReviewMonday, February 4, 2013, 06:10 (GMT+7)
Lessons about sex in ’50 Shades of Grey’
The world best-seller not only contains sex, steaminess and violence. Love and loneliness fill the pages of the book.
Book name: 50 shades of gray (set of three books: 1: Gray, 2: Black, 3: Freedom).
Author: E.L. James.
Translator: Tuong Vy
Lao Dong Publishing House and Alpha Books
The “illustrious” reputation of Fifty Shades of Gray, the most famous erotic book in the world last year, easily attracted Vietnamese readers to the book series. Right on the cover of this Vietnamese edition is the words “Readers consider before reading”. The recommendation line is not redundant. Because after the first few dozen pages introducing the circumstances of the meeting of the two main characters: Christian Gray and Anna Steele, the pages describing the bedroom story and mutual physical desire between these two names continuously spiraled. each written page.
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Cover of the first volume of “50 Shades of Grey”.
As a person with a dark childhood, young billionaire Christian Gray is always obsessed with sex. He cannot love in the normal way and has a preference for having physical relationships with girls in BDSM (a form of role-playing or lifestyle choice between two or more individuals to create tension, pleasure and release). sexual escape through painful and powerful experiences).
For Grey, there is nothing wrong with sex. It is a normal and creative thing between two people behind the door of a private room. The more successful Christian Gray is in the marketplace, the more he indulges in light-hearted adventures. With ravishingly handsome appearance, Gray always plays the role of ruler, the one who imposes on his partner. To Grey, girls are just “Submissives”. That’s why no one can stay with the billionaire for long. The rules he set for the game only turned him into a sick, terrifying person in their eyes.
But when graduate student Anna Steelee comes into Gray’s life, her purity, honesty, innocence, and disobedient nature cause Gray’s inherent rules to be shaken. Steele’s pure, safe world also shakes. Her destructive power when hitting Steele can be compared to a large meteorite hitting the earth. The consequences it left behind were deep wounds in both of their souls. Gray led Steele – from a demure and clueless girl – into a maze of sensuality.
On that maze, Steele also gradually discovered pieces of the sad past of the person she loved, the things that had caused him to behave strangely throughout his young life. Many times, readers only see that all problems between them can only be solved with sex. But at the bottom of despair, and when their bodies were exhausted, two young people realized they still had to learn how to love each other, with their hearts, not just with their feelings.
Through the Vietnamese adaptation by translator Tuong Vy, the elements of romance and sex blend together sweetly, although many pages of this work may surprise readers because of the boldness in the depiction of sexuality.
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The three-book series was released in Vietnam.
“50 Shades” is an easy-to-read book with simple content. But its appeal lies not only in the usual customer attraction factor. Stripped of its sexual cover, the love story of Gray and Steele is a form of classic romance, following a motif somewhere in classic British and American literary works, such as: Jane Eyre (Charlotte). Brontë), Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë), Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Thomas Hardy)… Fascinating storytelling style, lots of wit, writer E.L. James takes the reader through three books seamlessly. In addition, not only is she a lover of classical literature, E.L. James also shows her love of music when she intertwines many details connecting the two main characters through the charm of music.
Before being adapted into Vietnamese, the 3-book Fifty Shades book series, especially the first book Fifty Shades of Gray, caused a stir in the world literature.
Since its launch in 2011, the book series has now sold 65 million copies globally, with 37 countries purchasing distribution rights. The sales of this work set a record for the best-selling paperback book of all time. Even in the UK, the number of sales of paperback copies of the book surpasses that of paperback copies of Harry Potter. With Fifty Shades of Gray, female writer EL James also won the British National Book Award in the category of Most Famous Fiction in 2012.
Fifty Shades of Gray was also licensed by Hollywood to bring to the big screen, promising to produce a hot “blockbuster” love movie. More than 10 major film studios have “sweated and shed tears” to get the rights to adapt this book. And Universal Pictures and Focus Features won the rights to make the film. However, while the movie “giants” are focusing on big projects, many fans of the book cannot stand the wait and have edited different segments into adapted movies using the correct lyrics. dialogue and context.
