Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, ch...
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.
In fact, perhaps this is the pure and perfect incest: the brother realizing that the sister’s virginity must be destroyed in order to have existed at all, taking that virginity in the person of the brother-in-law, the man whom he would be if he could become, metamorphose into, the lover, the husband; by whom he would be despoiled, choose for despoiler, if he could become, metamorphose into the sister, the mistress, the bride. (查看原文)
小说以Sutpen家族为中心,写南北战争前后的美国社会。第六章Bon儿子被接到庄园后生活的片段,深刻揭示种族问题,正是在这里,Faulkner提及the sons of Ham。Henry, Bon, Judith的情感纠葛,显现出欲望的结构和本质,超越了家族与种族,具有普遍意义。第五章Rosa, Judith, Clytie三人劳作的场景,是这部阴郁小说中的一点亮色,但即使这里,作者也很克制,没...小说以Sutpen家族为中心,写南北战争前后的美国社会。第六章Bon儿子被接到庄园后生活的片段,深刻揭示种族问题,正是在这里,Faulkner提及the sons of Ham。Henry, Bon, Judith的情感纠葛,显现出欲望的结构和本质,超越了家族与种族,具有普遍意义。第五章Rosa, Judith, Clytie三人劳作的场景,是这部阴郁小说中的一点亮色,但即使这里,作者也很克制,没有流露太多温情。第七章开头追溯Sutpen早年经历,解释了他转变的心理动机:to combat them you have got to have what they have that made them do what the man did.一流作家不会止于描摹个人之恶,而是尝试解析恶的成因。(展开)
0 有用 七百之一 2024-05-26 10:55:51 四川
小说以Sutpen家族为中心,写南北战争前后的美国社会。第六章Bon儿子被接到庄园后生活的片段,深刻揭示种族问题,正是在这里,Faulkner提及the sons of Ham。Henry, Bon, Judith的情感纠葛,显现出欲望的结构和本质,超越了家族与种族,具有普遍意义。第五章Rosa, Judith, Clytie三人劳作的场景,是这部阴郁小说中的一点亮色,但即使这里,作者也很克制,没... 小说以Sutpen家族为中心,写南北战争前后的美国社会。第六章Bon儿子被接到庄园后生活的片段,深刻揭示种族问题,正是在这里,Faulkner提及the sons of Ham。Henry, Bon, Judith的情感纠葛,显现出欲望的结构和本质,超越了家族与种族,具有普遍意义。第五章Rosa, Judith, Clytie三人劳作的场景,是这部阴郁小说中的一点亮色,但即使这里,作者也很克制,没有流露太多温情。第七章开头追溯Sutpen早年经历,解释了他转变的心理动机:to combat them you have got to have what they have that made them do what the man did.一流作家不会止于描摹个人之恶,而是尝试解析恶的成因。 (展开)