The Nightingale and the Rose夜鶯與玫瑰（英文原版·王爾德經典短篇）

不敢想象把這個小童話擴寫一下、改編成音樂劇的上限。我都快聽到夜鶯的絕唱了，還有紅玫瑰綻放的聲音，荊棘的低吟，花樹的語言。（是的還在戒斷倫敦西區中… 原作語言太藝術了，畫面美、音樂美、建築美三美兼具。 又試問如今何處還有愛情如此瑰麗猩紅。

真好呀！慢慢各種語言的書籍都上架了，微信讀書真是越來越來國際化

In The Nightingale and the Rose, Wilde offers his bleakest, most unsentimental reckoning with the core of his aestheticism: true beauty and love never enter the marketplace, never sit on the scales, never submit to logical proof; they can be fashioned only from life as their material and pain as their dye. The nightingale is no fool, nor is she duped by love into dying. She knew full well that the thorn would pierce her and drain her blood, and still she willingly distilled her night-long singing into a single red rose—which is precisely Wilde’s image of art achieving self-completion through the expenditure of a life. The true coldness of the tale lies not in the thorn but in the human world: the girl measures the rose only by the colour of her dress, and the student, walking off, dismisses love as “silly” before retreating to his room to condemn it as unprovable and unreal. Wilde stages no one viciously trampling the flower; he merely lets a set of people who pride themselves on their clarity—measuring all things by what can be cashed in, weighed, and logically disproved—quietly file a night of lifeblood away among things “impractical” and “unreal.” What he mourns is not the nightingale’s death, but a world that has already condemned as folly the very heart willing to die for something never meant to land.

太殘忍了，爲了別人而獻身結果在別人眼裏一文不值。

王爾德實在太會寫……聽完英文版本之後更讚歎翻譯藝術的精妙了。

我在想，夜鶯要如何知道愛是什麼呢？ 滾燙的、浪漫的、永恆的，這是她的愛嗎？ 鮮血染紅了玫瑰，我慶幸她死於黎明 不要去見證那一文不值那世俗的渴望… 夜鶯值嗎？心頭血被棄之不顧、被貶爲不如金錢… 這值得嗎？或許吧 至少她自認爲死於真正的愛，或許夜鶯也有所察覺呢？在他說出夜鶯如此卑劣自私的時候 如果夜鶯只是不願承認呢？她追尋的、世間再難有的、真正的愛 或許死於幻想中的真愛，於她而言，也是解脫吧，不再悲於泡沫的愛、真真假假的世界 至少，直至生命最後一刻，她爲的是她崇高的理想而歌 夜鶯，我的夜鶯，再爲我歌一曲吧，不必染紅哪朵玫瑰，不必爲虛假而歌 夜鶯，我的夜鶯，再爲我歌一曲吧，這歌只爲訴說你的心，只爲傾聽我的心 但如今的愛，還值得夜鶯用心頭血染成嗎？

Don’t be the little nightingale Make sure only sing to those who cherishes you

算法似乎識別到我讀不完大部頭，會在推薦的書下面標註上“30分鐘讀完”...

王爾德經典作品了。一如既往語言優美，就是主題挺虐的。

人不如鶯 知識再多 只會增加成見