苹果树
The Apple Tree
作者那单纯放荡而甜蜜的往事,那忧伤结局,美得令人心碎,美得令人惊叹。
一幅充满诗情画意,田园牧歌式的生活场景却演绎了一幕哀怨、悔恨的爱情悲剧,一波三折,令人叹息。《苹果树》这部中篇小说,作者自许为他最好的故事之一,文字优美、耐读。通篇描写青年大学生艾舍斯特因“怜悯”爱上天真纯朴的村姑梅根,与她在苹果树下定情;又因阶级意识而将她抛弃。他造成一起恋爱悲剧,而最终他又为此伤感,因为他遗失了生活中最美好的东西——“那苹果树、那歌声和那金子”。
The Apple Tree has shown a romantic realistic inclination. In this novel, Galsworthy tells us the love tragedy between Ashurst and Megan. It is found that the origin of the tragedy is the unequal capitalist society. Ashurst has dual personality. On one hand, he is selfish, irresponsible, and eager to defend for himself and deceives himself as well as others; on the other hand, he indulges himself in pity and chivalry.
他心中忽然一痛:他正好撞到过往生命中的一段往事上了,他没能捕捉到其中的美好和欢乐,它扑着翅膀飞入未知的世界了。他触及了一段尘封的回忆,想起了那段狂野、甜蜜、但被迅速扼杀的时光。
And a sudden ache beset his heart; he had stumbled on just one of those past moments in his life, whose beauty and rapture he had failed to arrest, whose wings had fluttered away into the unknown; he had stumbled on a buried memory, a wild sweet time, swiftly choked and ended.
作者那单纯放荡而甜蜜的往事,那忧伤结局。是种伤残的美,美得令人心碎,美得令人惊叹。这是一篇唯美之作。只有既美妙又具悲剧色彩的爱情才能震撼我们的心灵。
This work by John Galsworthy (pictured) is surely one of the greatest short stories in the English language. It sensitively and artistically delineates the deep feelings, the rapture, the ecstasy, the tragedy, and the compromises and social strictures that surround erotic and romantic love. I think it also says something new to modern men and women who live in a world of cheapened sex, who may not yet understand how deeply Cupid’s arrow may—and indeed, ought to—pierce. (Kevin Alfred Strom)
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