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书籍介绍
《卡斯特桥市长》是哈代代表作之一。作品讲述了主人公亨察尔原是个打草工，因醉酒将妻女出卖。事后追悔莫及，从此滴酒不沾，发奋致富，二十年后当上了卡斯特桥市长，后来妻女回到了他的身边，但灾难也接踵而至。由于他的刚愎、偏执，与原来的合伙人闹翻，并在竞争中陷于破产，当年出卖妻女的丑闻也张扬出去以至身败名裂，众叛亲离，在一所小屋里凄惨地死去。作者通过这一悲剧性的描写，揭示了资本主义发展给劳动人民带来的灾难，谴责资本主义制度的不合理性。
作者简介
托马斯·哈代（1840-1928），英国诗人、小说家。他是横跨两个世纪的作家，早期和中期的创作以小说为主，继承和发扬了维多利亚时代的文学传统；晚年以其出色的诗歌开拓了英国20世纪的文学。哈代一生共发表了近20部长篇小说，其中*的当推《苔丝》、《无名的裘德》、《还乡》和《卡斯特桥市长》。诗8集，共918首，此外，还有许多以“威塞克斯故事”为总名的中短篇小说，以及长篇史诗剧《列王》。
AI导读
核心看点
- 哈代代表作，讲述打草工卖妻后发奋成为市长，最终因性格悲剧身败名裂的故事。
- 深刻揭示资本主义发展下劳动人民的灾难，谴责制度不合理，展现命运无常。
- 通过亨察尔从辉煌到凄惨的一生，探讨冲动、骄傲与命运抗争的悲剧性主题。
读者共识
- 哈代文笔精妙，悲剧色彩浓厚，‘幸福是痛苦大戏中的插曲’令人共鸣。
- 男主亨察尔孤独偏执又可怜，引发同情；配角塑造相对单薄或工具化。
- 评价两极分化，有人赞其深刻，有人嫌其沉闷、人物难以共情。
精彩摘录
- "看过了方才帐篷里面的那一幕，现在面对这眼前这片景象，便自然而然地生出一种感触，认为人类是和善宇宙中的一个污点，令人厌弃。不过在仔细想一想，事件的各种情况原都是间歇性的，在某些个夜晚，人类都很纯真地沉入梦乡，那些安详沉静的东西却扰攘骚乱，高盛咆哮。"
- "亨察德的妻子和他生分是因为她去世了；他的朋友和帮手法夫瑞和他是因为意见不合；伊丽莎白-简则是因为不明真情。在他看来，他们这三个人之中好像只有一个可以挽回，那就是这个姑娘。"
- "The man finished his basin, and called for another, the rum being signalled for in yet stronger proportion. The effect of it was soon apparent in his manner, and his wife but too sadly perceived that in strenuously steering off the rocks of the licensed liquor-tent she had only got into maelstrom de"
- "At the end of the first basin the man had risen to serenity; at the second he was jovial; at the third, argumentative; at the fourth, the qualities signified by the shape of his face, the occasional clench of his mouth, and the fiery spark of his dark eye, began to tell in his conduct; he was overbe"
- "The vague news of his loss at sea a little later on solved aproblem which had become torture to her meek conscience."
- "Her face, though somewhat wan and incomplete, possessed the raw materials of beauty in a promising degree. There was an under-handsomeness in it, struggling to reveal itself through the provisional curves of immaturity, and the casual disfigurements that resulted from the straitened circumstances of"
- "As the lively and sparkling emotions of her married life cohered into an equable serenity, the finer movements of her nature found scope in discovering to the narrow-lived ones around her the secret (as she had once learnt it) of making limited opportunities endurable; which she deemed to consist in"
- "... happiness was the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."
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