The Nightingale and the Rose夜莺与玫瑰（英文原版·王尔德经典短篇）

不敢想象把这个小童话扩写一下、改编成音乐剧的上限。我都快听到夜莺的绝唱了，还有红玫瑰绽放的声音，荆棘的低吟，花树的语言。（是的还在戒断伦敦西区中… 原作语言太艺术了，画面美、音乐美、建筑美三美兼具。 又试问如今何处还有爱情如此瑰丽猩红。

真好呀！慢慢各种语言的书籍都上架了，微信读书真是越来越来国际化

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.

太残忍了，为了别人而献身结果在别人眼里一文不值。

王尔德实在太会写……听完英文版本之后更赞叹翻译艺术的精妙了。

我在想，夜莺要如何知道爱是什么呢？ 滚烫的、浪漫的、永恒的，这是她的爱吗？ 鲜血染红了玫瑰，我庆幸她死于黎明 不要去见证那一文不值那世俗的渴望… 夜莺值吗？心头血被弃之不顾、被贬为不如金钱… 这值得吗？或许吧 至少她自认为死于真正的爱，或许夜莺也有所察觉呢？在他说出夜莺如此卑劣自私的时候 如果夜莺只是不愿承认呢？她追寻的、世间再难有的、真正的爱 或许死于幻想中的真爱，于她而言，也是解脱吧，不再悲于泡沫的爱、真真假假的世界 至少，直至生命最后一刻，她为的是她崇高的理想而歌 夜莺，我的夜莺，再为我歌一曲吧，不必染红哪朵玫瑰，不必为虚假而歌 夜莺，我的夜莺，再为我歌一曲吧，这歌只为诉说你的心，只为倾听我的心 但如今的爱，还值得夜莺用心头血染成吗？

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

算法似乎识别到我读不完大部头，会在推荐的书下面标注上“30分钟读完”...

王尔德经典作品了。一如既往语言优美，就是主题挺虐的。

人不如莺 知识再多 只会增加成见