看文学大师怎么讽刺同行

2014-05-26 13:13:45来源:沪江网


  For every great author, there’s another great author eager to knock him or her down a few pegs. Although the writers in this picture are typically deemed canonical by literary tastemakers, there wasn’t much mutual admiration amongst them.

  每个伟大的作家,都会受到另一个伟大作家的毒舌抨击。尽管图中的作家是公认的大文学家,然而他们之间似乎彼此并不欣赏。

  Mark Twain on Jane Austen

  马克·吐温评简·奥斯汀

  “I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

  “我经常想批评简·奥斯汀,她的书简直让我抓狂,让我作为一名读者难掩愤怒之情;所以每次我开始读她的书时都不得不中途停止。每当我读《傲慢与偏见》的时候,都恨不得把她从坟墓里挖出来、抓起她的膝骨敲打她的头颅。”

  马克·吐温作品:《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》《汤姆·索亚历险记》

  简·奥斯汀作品:《傲慢与偏见》《理智与情感》《诺桑觉寺》《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《爱玛》《劝导》

  Charlotte Brontë on Jane Austen

  夏洛蒂·勃朗特评简·奥斯汀

  “Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? … I had not seen Pride and Prejudice till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck.”——Letter to a friend

  “你为什么那么喜欢简·奥斯汀呢?我始终都没看《傲慢与偏见》,直到看到你的那些话我才拿起这本书。我发现了什么呢?不过是对普通人照本宣科的描述罢了;只有围墙精美、植物葱郁、边界整饬、鲜花烂漫的花园,却没有明亮生动的画面、空旷的原野、新鲜的空气、苍翠的青山、秀丽的小河。”——节选自夏洛蒂·勃朗特写给朋友的信

  夏洛蒂·勃朗特作品:《简·爱》《雪莉》《维莱特》《教师》

  Charlotte Brontë on Anne Brontë

  夏洛蒂·勃朗特评安妮·勃朗特

  "'Wildfell Hall' it hardly appears to me desirable to preserve. The choice of subject in that work is a mistake - it was too little consonant with the character - tastes and ideas of the gentle, retiring, inexperienced writer."

  “《怀尔德菲尔府的房客》这本书几乎很难让我读下去。这部作品的主题选择就是个错误——它与人物角色太不相符了,简直是柔弱、退休、无经验作家的品味和思想。”

  安妮·勃朗特:夏洛蒂·勃朗特的妹妹。作品:《艾格尼斯·格雷》《怀尔德菲尔府的房客》

  Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman

  玛丽·麦卡锡评丽莲·海尔曼

  “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’”

  “她写的每一个字都是谎话,甚至包括and和the这种虚词。”

  玛丽·麦卡锡作品:《群体》《一个天主教少女的回忆》《国家的假面具》

  丽莲·海尔曼作品:《小狐狸》《守望莱茵河》《秋园》《阁楼上的玩具》

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