20世纪八九十年代时,言情小说以席卷之势风靡于中国读者之中,琼瑶、亦舒、席绢等言情小说作家迅速蹿红,带来了言情小说的高潮。一时间,俊男美女的主角,身世显赫的才子佳人,浪漫而唯美的爱情幻想吸引住了各个年龄层次的读者,而这些快餐式言情小说的“无营养”也让不少家长和老师操坏了心。这似乎并不是我们独有的困扰:本文作者在地铁上的一次偶遇,让他对现代西方女性的阅读品味产生了质疑……
The other morning on my subway commute I sat next to an attractive young blonde woman who was reading something on her iPad.1 She was very well-dressed, carrying a Prada bag with tastefully applied make-up—indeed, she exuded an unmistakable air of affluence, material success and even authority.2 I suspected she worked as a highly-paid Wall Street attorney or stockbroker or something of that ilk.3 So, I was curious to see what she was poring over4. The Wall Street Journal perhaps? The New York Times? The Economist?5
Quite the contrary; rather, she was mesmerized by a romance novel—I could tell because I spied a few paragraphs written in the sentimental, florid style of that genre.6It occurred to me that the relative anonymity of an iPad (i.e., in place of a paperback featuring an absurdly cartoonish cover illustration of a muscular he-man embracing a beautiful ingénue) spared her any embarrassment over her choice of reading matter.7 After all, romance novels fall into the same sordid category as soft porn, violent comic books and anything written by Stephen King in the realm of literary “guilty pleasures.”8
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