It was my book. Except that it wasn’t – not really. While burgers do indeed feature in lip-smacking detail, this time it was clear to me that The Perfect Hamburger is actually a tale of corporate greed and the fate of small businesses forced to compete with big chains.
这就是我说的那本小说。其实不是——至少不完全是。小时候我觉得这是一个关于美味的汉堡的故事,而如今我再次读它,看到的却是一个大企业的贪婪以及小企业被迫同大型连锁店竞争的悲惨命运。
Revisiting kids’ books in adulthood can yield all sorts of weird and wonderful subtexts, some more obvious than others. How could Dr Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas be anything other than a parable of consumerism? Why would it not seem blindingly clear that CS Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia are in fact a fantastical re-imagining of Christian theology?
成年人重读儿童读物总会衍生出很多奇特的潜台词,而且有的尤其明显。苏斯博士的《圣诞怪杰》其实是一个消费主义的预言。而C.S.路易斯的《纳尼亚传奇》实际上是一个关于基督教神学的神奇重构。
Similar close readings have rendered the Paddington Bear books fables about immigration and Babar the Elephant an endorsement of French colonialism. Alice’s Wonderland adventures have been seen as everything from a paean to mathematical logic to a satire about the War of the Roses or a trippy caper with drugs as an underlying theme.
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