英国文学选读要点Chapter 5(30--33)
The Modern Period现代时期
(II)John Galsworthy约翰.高尔斯华绥
30. After the First Wor1d War he completed The Forsyte Saga, his first trilogy: The Man of Property, In Chancery (1920) and To Let (1921). His second Forsyte trilogy, A Modern Comedy, appeared in 1929, and the third, End of the Chapter, posthumous1y in 1934. 一战之后他完成了第一部费尔塞特世家三部曲,包括《财主》,《骑虎难下》,《出租》。第二部费尔塞特三部曲《现代喜剧》于1929年问世,第三部《篇章末尾》,则在他去世后的1934年出版。
31. Galsworthy was a conventional writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and Thackeray.高尔斯华绥是传统型作家,继承了狄更斯,萨克雷等维多利亚时期文学家的优良风格。
32. He wrote in a clear and unpretentious style with a clear and straightforward language.他的语言与风格都是同样的清晰,直白,毫无做作。
33. The Man of Property: The theme of this novel is that of the predominant possessive instinct of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relationships.《财主》:这部小说展示了费尔塞特家族盛行的占有欲与唯利是图,这种占有欲深刻影响到家族内的人际关系。
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