书籍介绍
一个十岁男孩被卷进一场婚外恋的传话游戏，从此再也无法回到那个相信「黄金时代」即将到来的夏天。L.P. Hartley 这部小说最锋利之处，不在情节的悬疑，而在叙述者 Leo 以五十二岁的成人之眼回望十一岁的自己——那个拒绝用「罪人」为自己找借口、执意要直面生活考验的孩子。小说的真正重量，是「知识并不能给人韧性」这一冷峻洞察：成年后的 Leo 拥有了当年的全部判断，却未必能做得比他更好。它常被拿来与《故园风雨后》《赎罪》并论，但其独特处在于不靠奢华铺陈，而靠那种「过去即是异国」的间离感，让读者看见童年如何悄悄铸就了一生的形状。适合所有愿意直面「当年那个孩子，我会如何待他」的人。
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核心看点
- 开篇名句‘过去是异国’奠定基调
- 少年卷入贵族禁忌之恋的悲剧
- 细腻刻画阶级壁垒与人性幽微
读者共识
- 文笔优美，心理描写极具感染力
- 阶级差异带来的爱情悲剧令人唏嘘
- 部分读者认为中段叙事略显平淡
精彩摘录
- "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
- "...The year 1900 had an almost mystical appeal for me; I could hardly wait for it: 'Nineteen hundred, nineteen hundred,' I could chant to myself in rapture; and as the old century drew to its close, I began to wonder whether I should live to see its successor. I had an excuse for this: I had been il"
- "...Thanks to my interment policy I had come to terms with life, I had made a working—working was the word—arrangement with it, on the one condition that there should be no exhumation. Was it true, what I sometimes told myself, that my best energies had been given to the undertaker's art? If it was, "
- "No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call the people who put him there miserable si"
- "'I [Leo Colston] call her [Marian Maudsley] spifflicating... A.i... I don't know what to call her,' I wound up lamely. 'I'd do anything for her.' 'What would you do?' I scented a trap in this; I felt I had been caught out boasting. There was so little I could do for her that would sound important. T"
- "... But the difference was this. In those days, I had known where I stood: I had never confused the reality of my private school life with the dreams with which I beguiled my imagination. That they were unattainable was almost their point. I was a schoolboy, assiduously but unambitiously subscribing"
- "... With them there is nothing to catch hold of: gossamer threads that broke against my mind and tired it. The conversation of the god! — I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn't alway"
- "... As I stood musing I seemed to feel within me the world's tremendous meteorological effort to excel itself, to pass into a region of being which it had never attained before. I was myself the mercury (had I not been called Mercury, I thought confusedly) soaring ever to new heights; and Brandham H"
用户评论
Atonement借用了Hartley的这个故事，本人觉得Hartley好看太多。
开头就是巅峰，然后就直转往下“过去即是异国”，开头的那种和过去的间离感，岁月中努力遗忘和阁楼找到当年的日记本的氛围都写的很好，文笔也不错，那一处写“我不相信罪人的说法，因为就跟打板球然后用下雨做借口一样，罪就是找借口，我们就该直面生活的酸甜苦辣”那句深受触动但故事就无聊至极…可能我就不喜欢阶级带来的爱情壁垒，矫情的英国贵族的主题吧，可能是因为我觉得不够普遍？好的书感觉是讲述每个年代都能感受到的问题，但这本就限于时代了“爱情不分阶级”的主题都要说烂了，同样的题材和场景《赎罪》的处理好多了，比起阶级更多是普遍的“悔恨如何面对”心理描写也更好
One of my favorite.
看的音乐剧，不是书……上来冲击好大，13岁的孩子为自己的过错或者懵懂而背负的心理压力在每一幕快乐和每一幕焦虑中不断被强调。那一对恋人的极端和自私就这样伤害了一个孩子。不过，在老人最终如何从这个阴影中走出来这一幕，我认为音乐剧处理的有些单薄。在和marian对话后，体会到自己真的帮助过这对恋人，老人后来说，他的每一次go between 都是值得骄傲的经历，这个点……并没让我觉得有个良好的过渡。不过，总体来说，是重新鼓起勇气回头体验一次不敢回头看的经历，让他最终解开心结。我更在意最后回忆中的小孩问的那句话：what about the years have been wasted？！ 也是我想问的点。
一个典型的intruder故事，中间的叙事略显平淡，老年的回忆则更有深意。
Dreadful. The first person narrative is suffocating.
little postman的心理描写绝了
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