书籍介绍
虽然有个别篇目仍然缺漏，而且校对不精，但这毕竟是第一本集中地收录了钱锺书先生英文作品的书，其价值不容小觑。文章24篇，其中包括钱锺书先生在牛津大学学位论文《十七、十八世纪英国文学中的中国》，以及曾刊于《天下月刊》、《中国评论家》、《书林季刊》等英文杂志上的书评、随笔等。内容涉及东西方的古典文史。有人认为钱锺书先生是近代以来写英文写得最漂亮的中国人，有兴趣的读者不妨比较一下，看看辜鸿铭、林语堂、吴经熊、陈世骧、夏志清这些同样以英文文笔著称的作家跟钱锺书比起来，到底谁的文笔更地道些。在我看来，单论含蓄的嘲讽这方面，钱锺书先生的英文堪称独步。
AI导读
核心看点
- 首本集中收录钱锺书英文作品，含牛津学位论著及多篇书评随笔。
- 展现钱氏独步的含蓄嘲讽风格，文笔古色古香，具英伦随笔风范。
- 涉及东西方古典文史比较，考证缜密，体现学贯中西的深厚功底。
适合谁读
- 具备较高英文阅读水平，能欣赏复杂句式与深奥词汇的读者。
- 对比较文学、中西文化互动及英国文学中的中国形象感兴趣者。
- 钱锺书研究者及希望对比辜鸿铭、林语堂等学者英文文笔的读者。
读前提醒
- 本书校对不精且有个别篇目缺漏，阅读时请保持批判性思维。
- 内容深奥晦涩，建议结合相关西方文学背景知识，耐心慢读。
- 部分文章已有中文译本，可对照阅读以辅助理解钱氏原意。
读者共识
- 普遍认可钱锺书英文造诣极高，幽默犀利，但阅读门槛较高。
- 读者常感叹自身英文功力不足，阅读体验如“狗刨加呛水”。
- 虽有小瑕疵，但作为首部英文文集，其文献价值不容小觑。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "......Hus Tse-mo, for all his aestheticism and artiness, is still a baby who can enjoy innocently the pleasures of life; his fits of unhappiness are those of a spoiled child who wails either because he has not got enough of sweets to eat or because he has eaten more than is good for his stomach. (.."
- "......Now, only a great man, or perhaps an egregious fool, can be so impervious to ridicule, and Mr. Wu Mi is a great personality. ...... Hence his almost desperate love-making; why, he has lost Paradise without gaining an Eve who will "share his woe" and "lighten his burden"! (......) He is not a g"
- "......His despair is not simply that of the paradise lost, but that of losing his paradise without gaining an Eve who will "light his burden and share his woe"! ...... He needs woman, but he sublimates this natural craving into pedagogic function to round off his self-culture, an architectonic neces"
- "This article formed originally part of a thesis written at Oxford in the years 1935-1937, years immediately before the outbreak of the War in China and then in Europe. And I now value it chiefly as a reminder of those years of peace when the undertaking of such work was still possible. Years so plea"
作者简介
钱锺书:现代文学研究家、作家、文学史家、古典文学研究家。 字默存。1929年十九岁考入清华大学外文系，1935年二十五岁以第一名成绩考取英国庚子赔款公费留学生，赴英国牛津大学埃克塞特学院英文系留学。主要著作有：《写在人生边上》《人.兽.鬼》 《围城》《谈艺录》 《管锥篇》《七缀集》等。
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