The Golden Bowl 金碗(英文版)
[美]亨利•詹姆斯
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[美]亨利•詹姆斯
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism. The gilded crystal bowl with its almost invisible flaw is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanours and make his characters face their own defects in this classic tale of redemption.
“(他)看見她外套的衣袖滑到手腕上，彷彿又一次看到了袖子裏飄逸的雙臂，圓潤、潔淨、修長。他熟悉她那雙纖細的小手，還有指甲的形狀和顏色，熟悉她轉身時那一場優美的體態和身段，而他最熟悉的還是她纖細二富有彈性的腰肢，那是花朵綻放時的花枝，也是頎長而豐滿的絲織錢包，裏面裝滿了金幣。這時她還沒有轉過身來，可他好像已經在手裏把這一切都掂量了一遍至聽到了金幣相碰的叮噹聲。” 敘述暫停、場景
語句冗長晦澀，用詞歧義頻生，比喻俯拾皆是，人物對話過分精雕，意思往往含混不清。正因如此，他在世時鐘情於他的美國讀者數不多，他的作品一度飽受爭議，直到第二次世界大戰前美國出現“第二次文藝復興”時，作爲小說家和批評家的詹姆斯才受到充分的重視。