萧伯纳：卖花女 英文原版 Pygmalion Bernard Shaw

基本信息

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Format：Paperback | 144 pages

Publisher: penguin uk

ISBN10 0141439505

ISBN13 9780141439501

Publication 04 Feb 2003

Dimensions:129 x 198 x 8mm | 112g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍介绍

本书是爱尔兰剧作家萧伯纳的作品。通过描写教授如何训练一名贫苦卖花女并后来成功被上流社会所认可的故事，抨击当时英国的腐朽保守的等级意识。后来的好莱坞据此翻拍了电影《窈窕淑女》。

书中，语音学家希金斯（Higgins）和朋友匹克林上校（Pickering）打赌用街头卖花女伊莉莎（Eliza）作实验，通过六个月改变她的语言和外表，使之成为仿佛出身名门的贵族小姐。伊莉莎通过一系列训练，果然完全脱离了出身贫寒、言行粗俗的氛围，在出入任何高贵场合的时候都能引起万众瞩目。然而，希金斯是个独身主义者，不可能与她结婚，而伊莉莎既成不了真正的公爵夫人，又不能再回菜市场卖花，遂被置于一种不上不下的尴尬境地。

《卖花女》讲述的是社会底层人物的悲惨遭遇，客观地展示了当时英国的社会面貌，同时更深入地揭示了当时英国的社会问题。因此，伊莉莎所处的伦理环境、对社会的伦理诉求及伦理身份的转变是萧伯纳关注社会问题的注脚。立足伊莉莎做出身份选择的伦理环境，探讨伊莉莎改变自我的动机以及此后她所经历的伦理身份困惑，从而找寻导致其伦理困境的根本原因是作为萧伯纳社会问题剧的伦理价值所在。

'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.

媒体评价

"萧伯纳在他的作品中给我们留下了他的思想……今天，我们没有了用清晰和矛盾来唤醒我们的肖维巫师，国家情报的损失是巨大的。"《星期日泰晤士报》

"In his works Shaw left us his mind. . . . Today we have no Shavian wizard to awaken us with clarity and paradox, and the loss to our national intelligence is immense." --The Sunday Times

"他是一个讲笑话的托尔斯泰，一个现代的约翰逊博士，一个举世皆知的天才，用他自己的谦虚估计，连莎士比亚都相形见绌。"《独立报》

"He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr. Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade." --The Independent

作者简介

萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw，1856-1950）爱尔兰剧作家，1925年"因为作品具有理想主义和人道主义"而获诺贝尔文学奖，是英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家，是擅长幽默与讽刺的语言大师。

Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He was strongly critical of London theatre and closely associated with the intellectual revival of British drama.

Dan H. Laurence has edited Shaw's COLLECTED LETTERS and COLLECTED PLAYS with their Prefaces. He was Literary Advisor to the Shaw Estate until his retirement in 1990.

Nicholas Grene is Professor of English at the University of Dublin.