跟他的另一部作品《战争与和平》相比,这部作品更加以人为中心。托尔斯泰在书中阐明了他的观点,对于那些仁慈的或者审判的小册子而言,生活更加复杂。小说以家庭的破碎和通奸开场,同情心偏向作恶之人。可爱的姐妹俩面对道德上的背叛表面上为社会所接受,当故事情节层层展开,她们黑暗的一面暴露出来。 安娜与渥夫斯基私奔,列宁与渥夫斯基的前任结婚,其中安娜与列宁之间的对比很值得一读。
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
《包法利夫人》居斯塔夫·福楼拜
The tale of Emma Bovary lies somewhere between a cautionary tale of Victorian anti-womanhood, Bohemian ideals, and a George Bernard Shaw warning against middle-class morality. Flaubert doesn't trouble to make his female protagonist a relatable person; the focus lies more on an examination of a thoroughly self-centered woman who has an astonishing lack of judgment. The despair and affairs brought on by boredom, and the resulting financial misery accompanying mounds of debt, are a much more graphic portrayal than any Thomas Hardy novel, and Flaubert never forgave his countrymen for putting him on trial for violating public morals.
爱玛·包法利的故事介于维多利亚时代的反女性主义、波希米亚理想和乔治·萧伯纳对中产阶级道德的警告之间。福楼拜不愿让他的女主人公成为一个跟别人有共鸣的人;他的重点在于对一个完全以自我为中心的女人的考验,她极度缺乏判断力。厌倦带来的绝望和婚外情,以及随之而来的财政痛苦,比任何托马斯·哈代的小说都要生动得多,福楼拜从来没有原谅他的同胞因为违反公共道德而审判他。
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