弗洛斯河上的磨坊（英文版）

一声喟叹。。。 ——我读《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》 早就听闻乔治·艾略特的大名，始终没读过她写的书。读完这本《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》，五体投地。 这是个简单至极的故事。一个姑娘玛吉少女时代朦朦胧胧爱上了残疾却极有才华的菲利普。俩人因为父辈的缘故分开。几年后玛吉偶遇表妹的准未婚夫斯蒂芬，俩人几乎一见钟情。玛吉陷入对单纯可爱的露西和对她一直一往情深的菲利普的强烈内疚之中。最后成为全镇人口中的“坏女人”的玛吉死于洪水中。结束了这个尴尬的四角关系，成全了露西和斯蒂芬。 几句话就讲完的故事作者写了560多页，足足50万字，但我并未感到拖沓唠叨，津津有味地读完了这一大厚本，足见作者的高明了。 这本书简单的来说就是爱情和责任的辩论。斯蒂芬和露西其时并未订婚，玛吉和菲利普也早已分手，但是斯蒂芬和露西是公认了的准未婚夫妻，露西也深深仰慕着斯蒂芬。菲利普是最懂玛吉的人，一直以来只爱着她。鉴于这两点，玛吉深深纠结。她既深爱斯蒂芬，有不愿伤害露西和菲利普。这是那个年代纯真善良的价值观，放在现在这两个理由真不算啥，绝对不会搞得满城风雨，当事者个个痛苦万分。 乔治·艾略特慢慢地给你讲着故事。从玛吉小时候开始讲起。一点一点细细的讲小女孩的心事和痛苦，讲她小时候的古灵精怪调皮捣蛋，讲她最爱的哥哥汤姆，讲她的父母，讲磨坊周围美丽的风景，讲玛吉的三个姨妈，讲玛吉的穷姑妈，讲她小时候怎样初次见到菲利普，讲她长大后跟菲利普的爱情，甚至还讲哥哥汤姆少年时的好朋友，讲汤姆怎样一点点帮父亲还款重新撑起这个家。。。画面感极强，非常的精彩。玛吉遇到斯蒂芬之前才是整本书的重点部分，让我们读者都觉得这个姑娘是我们看着长大的，以我们对她的了解她是不会做出让爱她的人伤心的事的，就像菲利普了解玛吉的那个程度，甚至还要更多一些。我们都跟玛吉这么熟悉了，她的喜怒哀乐如何不牵动着我们的心？我们替她惋惜，为她不值。你看，后来斯蒂芬不是还是娶了露西？何必如此折磨自己呢？活着的时候不能对自己好点吗？ 但如果事到临头，咱们自己是不是能做出来夺人所爱的事情？是不是能坚决的拒绝深爱自己特别了解自己的人？夺人所爱如果是不经意间的一见钟情，还没啥。如果失恋的那个女孩子自杀了，咋办？良心和爱情之间这真是一个艰难的选择。 特别理解玛吉的痛苦。特别心疼玛吉这个好姑娘。 象征着命运的洪流，冲走了玛吉，冲走了这些烦忧。也许这就是玛吉的命运吧。这么聪慧善良美好的姑娘，怀着对家人的无限爱意，对生活的美好向往，在磨难面前坚忍着，但始终无法改变命运的洪流。在接到汤姆之前她还有旺盛的生命力，但依然无法对抗命运的洪流。 玛吉的命运就像卡佛的那句话：“对大多数人而言，人生不是什么冒险，而是一股莫之能逆的洪流。” 这洪流，冲走了美好年华的美好姑娘。。 而我们，又能怎么办呢？ 只能说，这就是人生吧。

微信读书你不上中文版知道我有多痛苦吗👊🏻

为什么乔治艾略特这么出色，却在中国这么藉藉无闻，连译本都找不到

这，竟然是英文版。 🙈看不了啊

兄妹情深 永不分离 在英国的女作家之中，“奥斯汀山峰”“勃朗特峭壁”“艾略特山脉”和“伍尔夫丘陵”广为人知，但不知为何，我一直没有勇气行走“山脉”，或许是因为对她的讨论太少，总有一层神秘面纱。在2024年底跨年读完《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》，英式的田园生活让人向往，细腻的感情描写使人沉浸，哲学的探讨交锋促人成长，悲伤的故事结局令人心碎。 乔治•艾略特(George Eliot，1819—1880)是英国维多利亚时代著名作家之一，原名玛丽-安•伊文思(Marry Ann Evans)，生长在英国华立克郡。父亲是一处大庄园的代理人。乔治•艾略特从小就比较熟悉英国农村的风土人情。因此，她的小说清新优美，极富田园生活的大自然的气息。乔治•艾略特的早年作品都流露出了她对英国乡村生活的亲身体验。在这些小说中，艾略特用较多的篇幅描绘乡村的风光和生活习俗，歌颂英国农民在宗法制社会中的怡然自得的乐趣，表达了她对田园生活的向往和她对宗法制社会的留恋。但她在创作中首次显示了现实主义小说的新特征，如独特的哲学视角和细腻的心理分析。她重视对人物内心世界的关注和对人性的体察。在她的第一部小说《亚当•贝德》和第二部小说《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》中，她的创作特点分别得到了很好的体现。如果和《亚当•贝德》中占优势的田园乡村的题材相比，《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》是一部发出悲剧声响的作品。 “The Mill On the Floss” is considered as a semi-autobiographical novel written by George Eliot. Like the character Maggie in the novel, Eliot is brought up smart and enthusiastic who loves her family, Eliot lives in a farm when she is young, and Eliot’s love affair is not approved by her brother. We can see Eliot’s shadow in Maggie. At the same time, this novel reveals that Maggie, who is regarded as a rebel, has formed selfconsciousness when gradually growing up. Under the appearance of rebellion is her awakening self-consciousness. Maggie lives in Victorian male-dominant society, so she with rebellious consciousness, can only sometimes choose to escape to fight against the control and oppression of patriarchal dominance and pursue spiritual freedom. Maggie escapes for the first time when her aunts make fun of her being gypsy-like, and she protests by leaving home and trying to join the gypsy. She leaves because she finds it hard to build her self-identity through the approval of others in life. Maggie is suppressed for her quickness. “Mediocrity is the virtue of women”. Her brother Tom hates her knowing everything, and her father thinks ignorance is an advantage for a girl to some extent. And soon after the Tulliver family is bankrupted, Maggie instead of Tom is banished from education just because she is a girl and people would not prefer a woman to be more intelligent than a man.Maggie finds it hard to make her family happy while pursuing her desire, and she finally makes peace with her inner-self after reading the lines in a book: “If thou sleekest this or that, and wouldst be here or there to enjoy thy own will and pleasure, thou shalt never be quiet nor free from care.” and these lines shock Maggie greatly: “It flashed through her like the suddenly apprehended solution of a problem, that all the miseries of her young life had come from fixing her heart on her own pleasure as if that were the central necessity of the universe” Maggie is led by this religious book to believe that pursuing her own desire is selfish and she is obligated to give up her own pleasure sometimes and make other happy. Maggie doubts it is her fault that leads to the unhappiness in life and it is time when she decides to assert her own will and protects people she loves. She forms her values gradually and these words in this book have a profound impact on Maggie when she makes choices in her later life. Phlip is the first temptation for Maggie, the son of her family’s enemy’s lawyer. Maggie’s intimacy with Philip is neither allowed nor agreed by Tom and other people. But Philip seems quite philosophical about their relationship: “But I can’t give up wishing, it seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?” When he comes up with books, music and sweet memory of their childhood, he encourages Maggie to be brave to pursuit things and people she loves, to follow her heart, and to rebel. But Maggie breaks up with Philip because she does not want to hurt Tom’s feeling. “I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. But the tie to my brother is one of the strongest. I can do nothing willingly that will divide me always from him.” Maggie regards sibling love as the only reason that keeps her and Philip apart forever. This change in Maggie is so great that people around can ignore. “Her mother felt the change in her with a sort of puzzled wonder that Maggie should be ‘growing up so good’; it was amazing that this once ‘contrary’ child was become so submissive, so backward to assert her own will.” The second temptation is Stephen, lover of Maggie’s cousin Lucy. Maggie is deeply in love with Stephen and Stephen loves her the same. But if Maggie choose to be with Stephen, they would break Lucy’s heart and Maggie would be accused of stepping in. So she tells Stephen to “remember what we both felt: that we both owed ourselves to others and must conquer every inclination which could make us false to that debt” When Maggie is aware of her conditions, she does not choose to stand in opposition to tradition and society. She holds on to her moral integrity, and she lives up to fulfill her moral duty. Maggie eventually chooses to break up with Stephen. At the end of “The Mill On the Floss”, a heavy flood hit the village. Maggie could have the chance to escape and survival. On thinking of the fact of her mother and Tom, Maggie decides to come back and save Tom. However, Maggie and Tom eventually die together in the floods. Dorlcote Mill was rebuilt. And Dorlcote churchyard–where the brick grave that held a father whom we know, was found with the stone laid prostrate upon it after the flood–had recovered all its grassy order and decent quiet. Near that brick grave there was a tomb erected, very soon after the flood, for two bodies that were found in close embrace; and it was visited at different moments by two men who both felt that their keenest joy and keenest sorrow were forever buried there. One of them visited the tomb again with a sweet face beside him; but that was years after. The other was always solitary. His great companionship was among the trees of the red Deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover, like a revisiting spirit. The tomb bore the names of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, and below the names it was written,– "In their death they were not divided."

听完了中文版 作为艾略特女士作为杰出的两大作品之一 这本书讽刺性和主观同情胜过米德尔马契，讲述的是一颗敏感和求知的心在不被重视的时代背景下的成长历程 当然我们应该看到这本书揭示另一个问题 就是情感需求被压制和忽略的，以及他们和道德发生冲突时个人对自我认知不足时会造成怎样的危害和应该如何面对？

4/5 没有看到结局的时候内心里想打的分数一直是3.5/5，直到看到结局。 评论家们都对艾略特设计的这个结局不看好，觉得是过于仓促，简化矛盾，进而又说她不理解自己的角色玛吉，所以才会有这个所谓的格格不入的结局。但其实艾略特从描绘玛吉的童年生活开始，就埋下了她结局悲惨命运的种子。从小玛吉就缺乏安全感，她渴望被哥哥汤姆认可，她渴望得到哥哥的爱，为此她养成了不断抛弃退让的习惯，但是她从来没有因此得到过哥哥的认可，相反只有哥哥的埋怨和抛弃。在最后的洪水中，玛吉抛弃自己的生命安全选择营救哥哥，他们和解了，玛吉的不安全感在那一刻得到了安抚。假如玛吉和哥哥汤姆最终都没有死亡，那么玛吉的不安全感还是会继续困扰着她，因为她面对着道德和欲望的困境，不论是选择斯蒂芬还是菲利普或者两者都不选，汤姆还是会对她所做的一切感到气愤。因此如果玛吉和哥哥都没有死亡，那么这本书就没有可能走向结局。只有通过死亡，玛吉和哥哥之间的关系永远停留在了和解的那一刻，玛吉的不安全感也得到了安抚。但值得说明的是，安抚并不是解决。艾略特并没有想要简化她的结局，正因为她太了解她的角色了，所以她在结尾选择保留玛吉这个人物的复杂性。洪水中的死亡是最合适的也是唯一符合这本书设定的结局。

这本书对话部分排版很奇怪，不知道是不是按口语阅读的方式简写了，不知道原文是不是这样的，不太方便读者阅读。

读的伍厚恺的中译本，翻译得非常非常好。