而榮獲銀筆獎和 W. H. 史密斯文學獎的《法國中尉的女人》,則戲擬十九世紀小說的敘述形式,批判寫實主義對於創作的壓制,並利用開放式結局賦予小說更大的詮釋空間。他的作品已成為全世界英語系和文學系學生的必讀教材,重要性可見一斑。他的作品也被廣泛翻譯介紹,已在三十個國家出版。目前符傲思定居於英國南部的來木鎮 (Lyme Regis),此地也正是《法國中尉的女人》故事的發生地。
‘And does she like questions?’
‘That depends on the questions.’
‘Am I ever going to be told what you really think you’re doing?’
‘You have been told.’
‘Lie upon lie.’
‘Perhaps that’s our way of telling the truth.’ But then, as if she knew she had smiled once too often, she looked down and added quickly. ‘Maurice once said to me—when I had just asked him a question rather like yours—he said, “An answer is always a form of death”.’
There was something else in her face then. It was not implacable; but in some way impermeable.
‘I think questions are a form of life.’ She said nothing, though I waited. ‘All right. I treated Alison very badly. I’m a born cad, a swine, whatever you want. But why the colossal performance just to tell one miserable moral bankrupt what he is?’
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