xw让我摘录一些《金色笔记》里的句子,尤其是那个和Jacaranda有关的,不敢违命,抄录如下:
1、提及蓝花楹的(恐怕他老人家要失望,对植物没有什么描写,只是一笔带过)
For instance I don't think Ted and Willi ever really talked together--they jibed at each other occasionally.No, there was one time they made contact and that was in a falming quarrel.It was on the verandah of the hotel at Mashopi, and while I can't remember what the quarrel was about I remember Ted shouting:'You're the sort of man who'd shoot fifty people before breakfast and then eat six courses.No, you'd order someone else to shoot them,that's what you'd do.'And Willi in reply:'Yes, if it were necessary I would....' And so on, for an hour or more, and all this while the ox-wagons rolled by in the white dust of the sandveld, the trains rocked by on the way from the Indian Ocean to the capital, while the farmers drank in their khaki in the bar,and groups of Africans, in search of work, hung about under the jacaranda tree,hour after hour,waiting patiently for the moment when Mr Boothby, the big boss,would have time to come and interview them.
最近太忙,看书的进度很慢,还在黑色日记阶段,黑色日记讲述小说女主人公回忆二战时在非洲生活期间和一个从属于左翼阵营信仰“共产主义”的整天吵吵闹闹的小党派交往的经历。这一段文字里面提到的两个人,Ted和 Willi都是该党的核心人物。
2、某些观点
这本小说,里面有许多有意思的见解,例如,莱辛对于当代小说的看法:
The point is ,that the function of the novel seems to be changing;it has become an outpost of journalism;we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know---Nigeria,South Africa,the American army, a coal-mining village,coteries in Chelsea,etc. We read to find out what is going on......Most novels if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.
The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness.Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided,and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world,that they reach out desperately,not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries.
黑色日记里面的几个主要角色也写得很生动,这些欧洲的共产主义者,果然都是拖着一条资本主义的尾巴。最理想主义的Ted来自普通家庭,他愿意全心全意为人付出的行为在“投机分子”Willi看来很可笑,他如此嘲弄他:Willi used to complain that Ted behaved 'as if he lived in a full-blown communist society or as if he'd been brought up in some danmned kibbutz'
先摘到这里,等我看到后面有趣的地方,再随时补充。:)
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