加载中…重读名著不让你失望的有木有？
(2014-05-17 22:32:45)
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哈，昨天博客里刚讲了ambivalence这个词，今天就看到有个人在圈子里发了短信说纽约时报图书副刊里有个小专栏提的问题就是
“Which books from your past do you read now with ambivalence?”
Not all rereading is destined to result in
disillusionment, of course. Your appreciation for
some books may actually grow with age. As a young
person, I had little or no time for D.H.
Lawrence. His prose seemed rant-y, self-serious
and at the same time, a bit slapdash. I found all
the stuff about wombs and loins and essential flames embarrassing
and slightly dull. Yet last year, when I reread
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” for the first time in decades, I was
surprised to find its sex scenes a lot better, braver and more
interesting than I remembered. There were still
passages that made me wince. (If I live to be
100, I’m never going to be a fan of the flowers-in-the-pubic-hair
episode.) But Lawrence’s attempts at describing
the transcendent possibilities of “warmhearted” sex no longer
seemed quite so ludicrous. Next to the “yuk” I
had scribbled as a 20-year-old, now there stands a new note: “Not
so bad after all.”
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