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书籍介绍
这并非一桩简单的三角恋。真正刺人的，是男主角纽兰的"别扭"：他既想拥抱埃伦所代表的自由与清醒，又始终无法挣脱老纽约那张滴水不漏的礼教之网，最终在婚姻里活成了一个"心不在焉"的人。华顿的狠，藏在细节与潜台词里——每一个动作、每一句对话都是阶级话语的角力，而自我在其中无足轻重。读者争论的焦点恰在于此：纽兰与埃伦的爱情是否真如那般伟大？还是说，这不过是转型期个体"不彻底开启"现代性所酿成的进退维谷？它写尽了一个时代如何用责任感压抑激情、又用阶级责任取代个人意志。读懂它，便能读懂无数在世俗与自我之间反复拉扯的普通人。
AI导读
核心看点
- 19世纪纽约上流社会挽歌
- 传统礼教下压抑的三角恋
- 结构完美，细节暗藏讥诮
读者共识
- 被誉为美国版《红楼梦》
- 男主纽兰懦弱且令人纠结
- 旧时代纯真与无奈的哀歌
精彩摘录
- "脂肪的激增在她中年时期突然降临，就像火山熔岩降临到一个行将覆没的城市那样凶猛，使她由一位丰满好动、步伐灵活的小巧女人变成如自然奇观般的庞然大物。她像对待其他一切磨难一样达观地接受了这一大灾大难。如今，她在耄耋之年终于得到了报偿：镜子里的她，是一堆几乎没有皱纹的白里透红的结实肌肤，在其中央，一张小小的面孔行迹犹存，仿佛在等待着挖掘；光溜溜的双下巴下方，是掩映在雪白的麦斯林纱底下令人炫目的雪白的胸膛，一枚已故明戈特先生的微形像章固定其间；四周以及以下部位，一波接一波的黑丝绸在大扶手椅的边棱上流泻而下，两只雪白的小手摆在那里犹如海面上的两只海鸥"
- "从那以后，他们之间再不曾有过交流。他仿佛已经在自己心中筑起了一座圣殿，她就在他隐秘的思想与期盼中执掌王权。渐渐地，渐渐地，这座圣殿变成了他真实生活的背景，他的理性行为的惟一背景，他把他所读的书、滋养他的思想感情、他的判断与见解，统统都带进了这座殿堂。在它的外面，在他实际生活的现场中，他却怀着一种与日俱增的不真实感与缺憾，跌跌撞撞地与那些熟悉的偏见和传统观念发生撞击，就像一个心不在焉的人碰撞自己屋里的家具一样。心不在焉——这正是他目前的状态，他对于周围人们觉得实实在在的东西一概视而不见，以致有时候，当他发现人们依然认为他还在场时，竟会让他大吃一惊。"
- "Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocnce, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!"
- "“At least,” she continued, “it was you who made me understand that under the dullness there are things so fine and sensitive and delicate that even those I most cared for in my other life look cheap in comparison. I don’t know how to explain myself”—she drew together her troubled brows—“but it seems"
- "他不能说自己的选择是个失误，因为梅满足了他期待的—切。毫无疑问,能成为纽约一位最美丽、最受欢迎的年轻妻子的丈夫是令人高兴的；更何况她还是一位性情最甜蜜又最通情达理的妻子。阿切尔对这些优点绝非无动于衷。至于结婚前夕降临的那阵短暂的疯狂，他已能克制自己,认定是业已摒弃的最后―次试验。在他头脑清醒的时候，想起他还会梦想娶奥兰斯卡伯爵夫人，真感到不可思议。她仅仅作为那一串幽灵中最悲哀、最鲜活的一个留在他的记忆里。"
- "Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile."
- "But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands-- and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness brought by disloyalty and crulety and indifference. That was what I'd never know before-- and it's better than anything I've known."
- "That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland's familiar features; and once more it was birn in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been t"
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