作品简介

《金钵记》是美国作家亨利·詹姆斯创作于1904年的长篇小说。小说围绕意大利没落贵族后裔亚美利哥与美国富商之女玫姬的婚姻展开，其中复杂纠葛的人物关系充满了隐患，直至玫姬购买了古董金钵才意外解开真相。该作展现了人物在道德与欲望间的挣扎，刻画了婚姻中的欺骗与觉醒历程。

 

作者简介

亨利·詹姆斯（Henry James，1843-1916），英籍美裔小说家、文学批评家、剧作家和散文家。出生于美国纽约市一个书香人家，从幼年起开始漫游欧洲大陆，在截然不同的文化氛围中不断探索，因此他十分擅长刻画旅居欧洲的美国人形象，揭示美国与欧洲的文化冲突。代表作有《一个美国人》《一位女士的画像》《鸽翼》《使节》等。

 

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The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemporary Rome the real dimensions of such a case. If it was a question of an Imperium, he said to himself, and if one wished, as a Roman, to recover a little the sense of that, the place to do so was on London Bridge, or even, on a fine afternoon in May, at Hyde Park Corner. It was not indeed to either of those places that these grounds of his predilection, after all sufficiently vague, had, at the moment we are concerned with him, guided his steps; he had strayed, simply enough, into Bond Street, where his imagination, working at comparatively short range, caused him now and then to stop before a window in which objects massive and lumpish, in silver and gold, in the forms to which precious stones contribute, or in leather, steel, brass, applied to a hundred uses and abuses, were as tumbled together as if, in the insolence of the Empire, they had been the loot of far-off victories.

 

词汇学习

• convince  vt. 使信服，使确信
• ancient  adj. 古代的，古老的
• contemporary  adj. 同时代的；现代的，当代的
• dimension  n. 尺寸；尺度；维；度；元
• precious  adj. 珍贵的；贵重的

（单词注释来自有道词典）

《亨利·詹姆斯书信选集》是一部书信集译著。译著收集了美国作家亨利·詹姆斯写给亲友、学生、同事、朋友的信件，话题涉及社会现状、艺术创作及日常生活，共计100余封，为研究亨利·詹姆斯生平事迹、艺术创作有着重要意义。

This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between 2001 and 2016. the book articulates the developments in biographical and adaptive writing that enabled millennial writers to engage so explicitly with James, locates the sources of his appeal, and explores the different forms of engagement taken. Layne analyses how these manifestations of James’s legacy might function differently for knowing versus unknowing readers, and how they might perform the role of literary criticism. Overarching themes include ideas of queering, the concern with seeking redress, and the frustrated quest for origin, authenticity, or ‘the real thing’.

 

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