书籍介绍
《莫瑞斯》最锋利的地方，不在它写了一段见不得光的同性恋情，而在斯特让两个男人最终选择了彼此相守——在那个把这种爱视为犯罪的年代，这个结局本身就是惊世骇俗的叛离。读者反复回味的，正是莫里斯从自我怀疑（“觉得自己病了”）到被Alec点醒“Clive的病能痊愈，自己为何不行”的顿悟：这不是缠绵的耽美，而是一场中产阶级青年对门第、对convention的清醒决裂。斯特笔调出奇平实，把惊涛骇浪压在字缝里，反而生出荡气回肠之力。它适合那些不满足于“爱情故事”，而想看清一个人如何与整个社会秩序对峙的读者。
作者简介
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) wrote six novels - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924). Maurice , written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work (Aspects of the Novel); The Hill of Devi; two biographies; two books about Alexandria; and the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. David Leavitt is the author of several novels and story collections, most recently The Body of Jonah Boyd (2004). With Mark Mitchell, he edited the Penguin US edition of E.M. Forster's Selected Stories, as well as The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida.
AI导读
核心看点
- 百年前禁忌题材，真实刻画同性情感觉醒与自我救赎历程。
- 文字平实却极具力量，细腻描绘从阶级桎梏走向自由平等的勇气。
- 不仅是爱情小说，更是关于身份认同、社会规训与灵魂成长的史诗。
读者共识
- 作者生前未敢发表，死后出版，被视为勇气与真诚并存的文学杰作。
- 相比电影，原著文字更内敛深沉，情感爆发力与心理刻画令人震撼。
- 超越单纯的情爱故事，被广泛视为一部关于爱、自由与人性解放的经典。
精彩摘录
- "倘若你高抬贵手，容我听其自然，我就会半睡半醒地了此一生。"
- "Then savage, reckless, drenched with the rain, he saw in the first glimmer of dawn the window of Durham's room, and his heart leapt alive and shook him to pieces. It cried 'You love and are loved.' He looked round the court. It cried 'You are strong, he weak and alone,' won over his will. Terrified "
- "I'm not here to get advice, nor to talk about thoughts and ideas either. I'm flesh and blood, if you'll condescend to such low things..."
- "有些题目好下笔 ，有的教人犯难。我晓得这回我可挑了个扎手的题目，也许比黄色的还要犯禁。它并不色情诲淫，只是个不能见人的社会问题。正如艾滋病，它在中国没 有在西方那么严重。然而也正如艾滋病， 中国也有。有些人不了解人间还有这种事儿，也有些人晓得它的存在 ，但讳莫如深。我认为正确的唯物主义的态度是应该摊开来 谈谈 ，并取得正确的共识。 40 年代我留学剑桥时，曾结识了本世纪英国大小说家 之一的 E M 福斯特。他写了一部以同性恋为题材的小说《莫瑞斯》，在遗嘱中规定死后才出版。承他慷慨地从银行保险库中取出，借我看了 一个月。事后我曾给他写过一封长信，谈了我对这个问题的认识。 在性觉醒之前，男孩子同男"
- "They were his last words, because Maurice had disappeared thereabouts, leaving no trace of his presence except a little pile of the petals of the evening primrose, which mourned from the ground like an expiring fire. To the end of his life Clive was not sure of the exact moment of departure, and wit"
- "他没有神，他没有情人——这两者通常能诱使人们培育美德。"
- "They walked arm in arm or arm around shoulder now. When they sat it was nearly always in the same position—Maurice in a chair, and Durham at his feet, leaning against him. In the world of their friends this attracted no notice. Maurice would stroke Durham's hair."
- "His replies were equally long. Maurice never let them out of his pocket, changing them from suit to suit and even pinning them in his pyjamas when he went to bed. He would wake up and touch them and, watching the reflections from the street lamp, remember how he used to feel afraid as a little boy."
用户评论
'People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you"'
喜欢这种emotionally intense的书 文学性太纯的还是没什么感觉
重读，还是感动。Forster写得最不克制的一本书。
Clive的转变好突兀...
两个半夜三更翻别人窗户的家伙真是天生一对
天气太差了，只有过两个晴天与一个朗夜。
平行世界罪与罚
But was he brave?
“He’s sacrificed his career for my sake without a guarantee…I’ll give up anything for him”读到就觉得这就叫双向奔赴吧太感动了🥲
文洁若的版本我也和原著对照着看了 个人感觉虽然有些段落翻译腔略重 但也有翻得很好的地方 原文心理描写还是挺多的 抽象的词汇也用的很多 要摆脱翻译腔可能会失掉一些作者本身想表达的意思 这可能是文版翻译有很多直译的原因 直译的缺点就是会让人觉得有点生硬不像是说人话 说回原著本身我是挺喜欢的 我也是看了电影再去看的书 各种代入是肯定有的 看了书以后对电影也有了更深的理解
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