With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists, Edith Wharton's characterisation and deft handling of reversals of fortune are so accomplished that Ethan Frome has remained enduringly popular since its first publication in 1911 and is considered her greatest tragic story.
不会写书评,这个故事是我读过的经典的故事之一。吕叔湘的翻译真是绝了。感情细腻,语言生动朴实。伊坦跟玛特的爱情确实让人叹息,多好的一对啊,偏偏不能在一起,只能双双选择覆灭。若是伊坦舍弃细娜,和玛特远走高飞。实际上他也顾不了细娜了,他想把田地和伐木场留给细娜,...
评分不会写书评,这个故事是我读过的经典的故事之一。吕叔湘的翻译真是绝了。感情细腻,语言生动朴实。伊坦跟玛特的爱情确实让人叹息,多好的一对啊,偏偏不能在一起,只能双双选择覆灭。若是伊坦舍弃细娜,和玛特远走高飞。实际上他也顾不了细娜了,他想把田地和伐木场留给细娜,...
评分虽然有几本伊迪丝华顿的小说,不过这倒是第一次看 伊迪丝华顿在这篇不长的小说中,叙述了一段美丽的爱情故事,然而,这里更叙述了人类苦难的生活 风雪中,一个爱情故事变成了凄苦,变成了难以承受的苦难。不过,主人公们还在承受着。 不能不承认,伊迪丝华顿的笔触很细腻,...
评分不会写书评,这个故事是我读过的经典的故事之一。吕叔湘的翻译真是绝了。感情细腻,语言生动朴实。伊坦跟玛特的爱情确实让人叹息,多好的一对啊,偏偏不能在一起,只能双双选择覆灭。若是伊坦舍弃细娜,和玛特远走高飞。实际上他也顾不了细娜了,他想把田地和伐木场留给细娜,...
评分Ethan Frome was once mentioned in Edith Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance: The book to the making of which I brought the greatest joy and the fullest ease was ‘Ethan frome’. For yrs I had wanted to draw life as it really was in the derelict moun...
(1911/2012) R4 w/ Fenella Woolgar. EW究竟好在哪了,女主好单纯好不做作,男主简直窝囊
评分结局将这部作品从一个三角恋轶事拔高到命运悲剧自不必说;书中大量关于新英格兰寒冬的描写使之成为凌驾于三位主角之上的第四位主角,而作者通过行文中不时对这位隐性主角的强调,令这部作品成为一个天人交战的故事:对个体生命施加无尽寒冬般的孤独的是天,人试图抓住身边的灵魂抱团取暖却似饮鸩止渴;让心灵感受到翻江倒海激情之苦的是天,人试图通过理性或社会规范主导自己的行为却似螳臂当车;逼迫个体接受贫瘠生活短缺物质的是天,人试图周转掉头照顾好一切却无能为力;决定个体生老病死的是天,人试图玉碎瓦全落得个白茫茫一片大地真干净却被迫苟延残喘,眼睁睁看着自己的生命被孤独、痛苦、贫瘠日日夜夜分分秒秒蚕食,生不如死。三位主角都是可怜人,因为他们注定要接受天人交战这种毫无希望的命运,虽然他们以各自的方式守卫住了自己最后的尊严。
评分文字怎么这么接地气了。感觉和纽约三部曲都不是一个作家写的。冷酷隔离环境下的内向者真的没有什么生存空间。但看这些压抑的情绪动作真的觉得没太大意思,看了一多半了男主女主都是在纠结。可能这样写最后的爆发才更有力量?最后那里挺震撼的,为什么要死又为什么这样生活下去,因为穷且没有其他出路
评分A masterpiece with well-intended content and eye-catching turn of plot, Wharton's novella has inherited the American literary tradition. The platonic love is craftily decorated with the wild yet idyllic setting, and the disillusionment, savored by the ingenious gothic-like ending, is a precious lesson learnt in the pursuit of happiness and ideals.
评分the ending do heighten the whole theme.
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