夜莺与玫瑰：王尔德童话全集（双语经典）

对王尔德的童话产生兴趣是因为爱豆拿着这本书拍了照片——一定要写这句话是因为它一直撑着我读完了七篇原文，第八篇《渔夫与灵魂》中生词隔三差五的，实在懒得查了，遂狗急跳墙读了两篇译文。 王尔德在童话中多用拟人，擅借“花鸟”之口讲道理，此一来收获低龄读者，输出观点时达到教育目的；二来摆脱因“说教”而担责之忧，得以隐身于“虚构”背后。王尔德童话中另一显著的创作手法是“排比”(不专业但我只会叫它排比)，他经常举三个例子，即令人物做三遍这件事，在《渔夫与灵魂》中尤为明显——灵魂每年与渔夫相见讲述旅行见闻，写了三遍；灵魂让教士带他去见神，写了三遍才见到“镜子”；灵魂在第三年诱惑渔夫上岸，带着渔夫走了三座城，干了三件邪恶事，在渔夫醒悟后又劝诱渔夫三遍，渔夫回不到海里便每天早、中、晚三遍呼唤美人鱼。(知道我为啥读不下去了吧) <The Happy Prince> Why had the statue Prince not seen his own side’s sorrow or love? Because it’s dark under the lights. We felt it hard to find goodness or evilness close to ourselves, or people who really care about us. So please starting to be more and more kind to your families and friends. And God is not helping, no one is coming. Try your best to save yourself! Love yourself! <The Nightingale and The Rose> “Love ” or “Red rose” for every who had seen the Nightingale’s devotion remained beautiful. Only when we suffer it through shall we feel it real, the true love. So make sure that will not cost your life like the Nightingale. <The Selfish Giant > Once I was quite angry about the definition of “selfish” and the punishment of closing the Giant’s private garden. The cold winter and hail covered the lovely garden because of lacking of children’s smiling happiness —that was quite another selfish! But how silly I am when against my human nature to not be obsessed with the Giant and the little boy, which was not Love but a relationship between father and son. <The Devoted Friend > How cynical Wilde is! He must be acquainted with human nature so bitterly that he can create or depict such a hypocrite. Friendship is not all about taking or giving, but mutual concern. However, we should be brace to say no when someone hurts our feelings. <The Remarkable Rocket> Please try your best to remember that every person has a defect of more, and forgive yourself for whatever stupid things you did in the past. “Let you go off!” And no matter what sensation you will make, the only audience is always yourself. <The Young King> For the former pages’ depiction on gorgeous luxuries, I thought that was suitable for Wilde’s Aestheticism. But when it came to the first of the three dreams of the young king, I suddenly realized that the author tried to plant a seed in our hearts. And I had read Toibin’s articles for Wilde’s homosexual life with “Bosie”, both of them lived luxuriant lives, which seemed contrast to the theme of the fairy tale he wrote. I felt pity. <The Birthday of the INfanta> Again, Wilde tired his best to decorate this tale with precious beautiful things. I also tried my best to read it over, for those words of plants, buildings, clothes and so on, getting me stuck many times. The Infanta had all the things but not the parents’ companionship or a true friend. I thought her behaviors was quite familiar with our contemporary spoiled “only child”, both of whom remain the innocent personality without sophisticated moral education. But not all of them are real Prince or Princess. At last, we cannot mock anyone who was born with disabilities, or who accidentally got diseases. Think that what if it happened to us. < the Fisherman and His Soul> I was so tired with his exotic and ornate words that I abandoned the English version and then finished it in Chinese. The pattern of his trying to persuade us readers was expressing the examples for three times, which formed a parallelism that intensed the tone of his voice. In this tale, he might want to tell us love was superior than power or money, but in the third one, the fisherman was compromised to the dancing white girls. Although he waked up and then stuck to himself and the Mermaid. After the Mermaid died, he was sorrowful and crying until the sea inundated them. A priest found them and buried them, and that’s the end— Love made the barren land grow flowers, only the lovers died together. People change. Btw, Wilde’s imagination of the soul was marvelous that he let the shadow being one’s soul and can be cut by a knife with its handle of green viper’s skin— Was this a story he learned in his travel? <The Star-child> Obviously, three examples was held here and there. And this time in Chinese, easily got Wilde’s environmental descriptions. I can’t help but asking: what is beauty and what is ugliness? Or the goodness and evilness? How could not a beauty born to be good? Did Wilde try to express that humanity is naturally evil? And the ending paragraph was incredibly amazing, for his abandoning of the ideal narrative.

这版是我读过的第二好的译本，比林徽因版忠实于原文，但比较平淡，少些文采。