夜色溫柔 TENDER IS THE NIGHT(英文版)
F·S·菲茨傑拉德
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《夜色溫柔：TENDER IS THE NIGHT（英文朗讀版）》是一部描寫關於愛情如何幻滅的複雜而有趣的書，《夜色溫柔》描寫了對於富有夢幻色彩的理想追求直至破滅過程的故事。《夜色溫柔》這部以夢幻破滅、人生頹敗爲主題的愛情小說，是美國“迷惘的一代”作家菲茨傑拉德一部帶有自我體驗的文學作品，情節曲折，寓意深刻，隱含忽明忽暗的抒情幽傷，是“一戰”後美國“中產階級”精神生活的真實寫照。 本版《夜色溫柔》爲英文原版，小32開經典開本，便於隨身攜帶隨時閱讀，同時配以英文朗讀，詳見圖書封底二維碼信息，讓讀者在感受原著風貌的同時，提升英語閱讀水平。 Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his fourth and final completed novel, and was regarded the greatest book of Fitzgerald. The novel almost mirrors the events of Fitzgerald and Zelda’s lives. In 1932, Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia in Baltimore, Maryland. The author rented the La Paix estate in the suburb of Towson to work on this book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, and his wife Nicole. Rosemary Hoyt, a beautiful eighteen-year-old movie starlet, on vacation with her mother, arrives at a rather deserted portion of the French Riviera. There, Rosemary meets Dick Diver, a handsome American psychologist in his thirties with whom she instantly falls in love. Dick and his wife, Nicole, are exemplars of grace and sophistication, and move among a social set of similarly extraordinary people. Rosemary becomes part of this world, and in the gay times that follow, Dick begins to reciprocate Rosemary’s feelings for him. Everything goes splendidly until, after an alcoholic friend of the Divers accidentally kills a man, Rosemary discovers Dick comforting Nicole, who has had a mental breakdown…
第一部文筆巔峯、光影、海邊、人物與場景唯美夢幻，是菲茨傑拉德巔峯式的華麗抒情。 無與倫比環境描寫 As sea and sky appeared below them in a thin, hot line 海與天在他們下方化作一條纖細灼熱的線， 第二部補全悲劇內核。把迪克從“完美迷人的紳士”拉回凡人，寫出他的自戀與內耗，有很多細膩迷人的精彩段落。 唯愛 第三部最瑣碎混亂、打破第一第二所有美感秩序。作者創新性地追求一種“形式即內容” 無主線強情節、場景亂七八糟、人物行爲反覆無邏輯，少有細膩動人的描寫，也是最枯燥壓抑的一部，只有一種緩緩下墜的瘋感。用破碎敘事結構對應迪克的emo崩潰。 全書高潮定在第三部分第七章的羅馬重逢 - 第一次落水：羅斯瑪麗叫了一聲“太棒了！他們差不多成功了”——還在維護他、給主角臺階。 - 第二、三次失敗：書中寫她安靜看着。 她心裏那份崇拜，是獻給五年前那個光芒萬丈的迪克，而不是眼前這個被生活拖垮的男人。 作者本人對這一章評價爲 羅馬那段（迪克再遇羅斯瑪麗）不是愛情戲，是他看着自己的屍體。羅斯瑪麗已經成了他曾經嚮往、後來又毀掉的一切的鏡子。他去見她，是去給自己的理想收屍。” “夜色溫柔，但光已經滅了。 他想要的不是羅斯瑪麗，是當年那個能被她仰望的自己——可那個自己已經死了。” 這是我最怕的時刻：被曾經崇拜你的人用憐憫的眼神看着。迪克不再是她崇拜的神——他只是個讓她同情的男人。 Rome: Climax — Dick finally understands he can’t go back. Dignity, charm, moral force — all gone. Only pity and shame remain.” “羅馬：高潮——迪克終於明白，他回不去了。尊嚴、魅力、道德力量——全沒了。只剩下憐憫和羞恥。”
Knotted at her throat she wore a lilac scarf that even in the achromatic sunshine cast its color up to her face and down around her moving feet in a lilac shadow. her face was hard, almost stern, save for the soft gleam of piteous doubt that looked from her green eyes. Just as the personal qualities of Extraordinary people can make themselves plain in an unaccounted change of expression, so the intensely calculated perfection of villa diana transpired all at once through such minute failure as the chance apparition of a maid in the background or the perversity of a cook. 書中有太多精美和細膩的描寫了，風景描寫的如詩如畫，人物內心活動描寫的細緻入微，每一個角色都具象化的立在面前，有些部分也晦澀難懂，但去了解完作者的時代背景，又能和書中人物產生許多的共鳴。靜下心來閱讀這本書，會有很多豐富的體驗，猶如伴隨着男主走完了他的半生。
“Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?” —— Ode to a Nightingale
The well-written emotions and environment do not cover for a truly mediocre story. An overrated book and a waste of my 16 hours.
句式：The Rise and Fall of Dick Diver 菲茨傑拉德 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 大衛鮑伊
有感動、有臉紅、有遺憾，也當然相信那些真摯而熱烈的瞬間，也很爲一些過去而不值得。 另，Baby的有些話還真的是令人咋舌。Dick was a good husband to me for six years,” Nicole said. “All that time I never suffered a minute’s pain because of him, and he always did his best never to let anything hurt me.” Baby’s lower jaw projected slightly as she said: “That’s what he was educated for.”
He tried to arrange an attitude but no logic seemed forthcoming.