英美經(jīng)典短篇小說賞析

前言

要深入地了解一個民族、一種文化，不能只注意那些五光十色的報紙、雜志、廣播、電視和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，而必須讀他們的文學作品。正是在文學作品里，可以得到比表面現(xiàn)象要深刻得多的東西：這個民族真正的思想、感情、性格甚至靈魂。文學作品是一個民族骨子深處的反映，是一個民族歷史的凝聚，是一種博大深厚文化的永恒載體。可是隨著現(xiàn)代生活節(jié)奏的加快，人們已經(jīng)很少能夠捧起大部頭的長篇文學作品來讀了，短篇小說正好可以滿足快節(jié)奏的現(xiàn)代人閱讀文學作品的這一需求。短篇小說在現(xiàn)、當代文學中占有越來越重要的地位。它以篇幅短小、形式活潑、主題突出、及時鮮明地反映生活的各個側面而見長。英國女作家伊麗莎白?包溫有一句名言：“短篇小說必備的第一個條件是它的迫切性，這就是說，故事之所以發(fā)生，是因為作者獲得一種印象或有切膚之感，覺得非寫下來不可，至于采取什么形式，則可多種多樣，只要它有內(nèi)在統(tǒng)一性就可以了?！痹谶@個松散的定義中，她實際上點出了短篇小說作為一種獨立的藝術形式的根本特點，即它的靈活性。這是一種最有彈性、最靈活的藝術形式。它可以沒有人物，沒有情節(jié)，沒有對話，而只是瞬間的感覺和印象；它可以寫感情，也可以全然不動感情；可以是戲劇性的，也可以是印象派或詩意的；它可以是嘲諷的、哲理的、幽默的，也可以是悲切憂傷的。

內(nèi)容概要

文學作品是一個民族、一種文化深處的反映，作為文學的一種體裁，短篇小說以其篇幅短小、樣式靈活、主題多樣、風格迥異而備受快節(jié)奏的現(xiàn)代人青睞。本書精選了20篇英美短篇小說，它們都出自文學大家，都對短篇小說的發(fā)展產(chǎn)生了深遠的影響，都在短篇小說發(fā)展史上占有舉足輕重的地位。本書涉及的英國作家有：狄更斯、哈代、史蒂文森、王爾德等；美國作家有：歐文、霍桑、愛倫·坡、馬克·吐溫等。本書不僅給讀者提供了原汁原味的英語，并且還可以讓讀者領略英美短篇小說絢爛多姿的風采。

書籍目錄

1．RiD Van Winkle2．The Minister’S Black Veil3．The Cask of Amonstillado  4．The Signal—Man5．The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County6．The Three Strangers7．Markheim．8．The Nightingale and the Rose9．A Charming Family10．The Cop and the Anthem11．The Gardener12．Compensation  13．Sredni Vashtar14．The Lost Phoebo15．Love of Life16．I Want to Know Why17．Araby18．The Horse Dealer’S Daughter19．The Man without Temperament20．Babylon Revisite

章節(jié)摘錄

WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudsona must remember the Kaatskill Mountains2. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family3 ,and are seenaway to the west of the river,swelling up to a noble height,and lording it over the sur rounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day,produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains,and they are regarded by all the good wives,far and near,as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled,they are clothed in blue and purple,and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they willgather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun,will glow and light up like a crown of glory.At the foot of these fairy mountains the voyager may have descried the light smokecurling up from a village whose shingle roofs gleam among the trees,just where the bluetints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. It is a little villageof great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists, in the earlytimes of the province, just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter StuyvesanP (may he rest in peace! ),and there were some of the houses of the original settiers standing within a few years,built of small yellow bricks brought from Holland, havinglatticed windows and gable fronts,surmounted with weathercocks.

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