The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents.It is told from Chris point of view but also from that of the gossiping community,a community where everybody knows everybody elses business and nothing is ever forgotten.
Sunset Song has a social theme too.It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World War 1.Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war.Despite this,the war takes the young men away,a number of them to their deaths.In particular,it takes away Chris husband,Ewan Tavendale.The war finally kills Ewan,but not in the way his widow is told.In fact,the Germans arent responsible for his death,but his own side.He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle.
If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also looks ahead.It is a Sunset Songbut is concerned too with the new Kinraddie,indeed of the new European world.Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.
词汇:
amazingly/[5meIzNlI/adv.令人吃惊地
注释:
1. Lewis Grassic Gibbons Sunset Songwas votedthe best Scottish novel of all timeby Scottishs reading public in 2005.Lewis Grassic Gibbon的《日落歌》在2005年被苏格兰读书界投票为所有时代中的最佳的小说。
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