They had talked, in long drives, and quantities of history had not been wanting—in the light of which Mrs. Lowder's niece might superficially seem to have had the best of the argument. Her visitor's American references, with their bewildering immensities, their confounding moneyed New York, their excitements of high pressure, their opportunities of wild freedom, their record of used-up relatives, parents, clever, eager, fair, slim brothers—these the most loved—all engaged, as well as successive superseded guardians, in a high extravagance of speculation and dissipation that had left this exquisite being her black dress, her white face and her vivid hair as the mere last broken link: such a picture quite threw into the shade the brief biography, however sketchily amplified, of a mere middle... (查看原文)
“He had never dreamed of anything so fringed and scalloped, so buttoned and corded, drawn everywhere so tight, and curled everywhere so thick. He had never dreamed of so much gilt and glass, so much satin and plush, so much rosewood and marble and malachi...
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0 有用 藠头与秋葵 2023-07-07 20:55:28 北京
到1/3处差点放弃,但过了1/2后真是越来越精彩,亨利詹姆斯总是需要花点耐心进入,之后便无法自拔,这一本反而一跃成为我最喜爱的詹姆斯作品
1 有用 🍀 2023-04-21 09:58:56 上海
4.5 读前几章一头雾水,许多句子需要反复琢磨(尤其是代词),故事虽单薄,意识却精细缜密,所有的对话都暗藏机锋,话里有话,詹姆斯把他最熟悉的特长发挥到极致,反讽再反讽。怪不得他说理想中的读者一天只能读5页,实在是过瘾。当然辣,后面我因为听书分不清他和她也蛮崩溃的,囧rz。
0 有用 Shibuyasalmon 2023-11-24 15:24:36 上海
太会写了 比喻用得真的绝妙…
0 有用 狄狄 2022-08-09 21:11:50
天真、多金的美国人被老于世故的欧洲人“围猎”,是詹姆斯最偏爱的题材——那些最自私的算计,最下作的行为,总是被包裹在极为讲究的文明教养之中,其捕获的过程让人心寒,结局令人心碎。这是仿佛用最精细的丝线耐心织就的小说,人物的面貌在丝丝缕缕的对白、语调和神情中逐渐成形,没有什么是一览无余的,没有什么是直接的——这是一个由每个人所发出的思想和欲望的托辞构成的表面世界,内层的世界只能通过表面世界才能间接地靠近... 天真、多金的美国人被老于世故的欧洲人“围猎”,是詹姆斯最偏爱的题材——那些最自私的算计,最下作的行为,总是被包裹在极为讲究的文明教养之中,其捕获的过程让人心寒,结局令人心碎。这是仿佛用最精细的丝线耐心织就的小说,人物的面貌在丝丝缕缕的对白、语调和神情中逐渐成形,没有什么是一览无余的,没有什么是直接的——这是一个由每个人所发出的思想和欲望的托辞构成的表面世界,内层的世界只能通过表面世界才能间接地靠近。这种迂回曲折的美学风格,在亨利•詹姆斯的晚期代表作中得到了淋漓尽致地发挥。4.5 (展开)
2 有用 拉维克 2023-01-28 18:26:48 江苏
整个第十章都好到让人叹为观止,凯特与丹歇关于米莉状况的对话真是将冰山法则发挥到极致,是山崩海啸的余震,火灾的灰烬,再从中重建起情感纠葛的惊心动魄:不管是丹歇对米莉的心情,还是米莉对丹歇的心情,还是旁观者凯特的心情,全部都要求读者屏息谛听,然后任那股情绪的洪流在意识深处慢慢升腾翻涌。丹歇受良心折磨而在圣诞前夕的夜不能寐已经是如入魔界的笔力,等到他撞见莫德姨妈与马克勋爵联袂造访医生家,更是将精神上的惊... 整个第十章都好到让人叹为观止,凯特与丹歇关于米莉状况的对话真是将冰山法则发挥到极致,是山崩海啸的余震,火灾的灰烬,再从中重建起情感纠葛的惊心动魄:不管是丹歇对米莉的心情,还是米莉对丹歇的心情,还是旁观者凯特的心情,全部都要求读者屏息谛听,然后任那股情绪的洪流在意识深处慢慢升腾翻涌。丹歇受良心折磨而在圣诞前夕的夜不能寐已经是如入魔界的笔力,等到他撞见莫德姨妈与马克勋爵联袂造访医生家,更是将精神上的惊悚揭开新的面目:原来最深的卑鄙(马克)与最深的世故(莫德)从一开始就是手牵手,这就是老欧洲金玉其外败絮其中的......恬不知耻。 (展开)