螺丝在扭紧和其他 Signet Classics: The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 464 pages

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:Signet Classics

ISBN:9780451530677

Published:4 Sep 2007

Weight:216g

Dimensions:106 x 172 x 38 (mm)

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书籍简介

这本小说集收录了亨利·詹姆斯的六部短篇小说，令人不寒而栗、妙趣横生、悲喜交加、意味深长，让读者充分体验到他的写作技巧和远见卓识。

标题《螺丝在拧紧》这篇小说讲述了一个年轻纯朴的姑娘应聘到一个大户人家担任家庭教师。开始时，一切都令她满意。她的学生——两个小姐弟天真烂漫，活泼可爱；乡下环境优美，空气清新。后来这种平静的生活突然被打破了，这种变化犹如一头猛兽一跃而起。不久之后就发生了一系列难解的事情：古堡寂静的走廊里传来神秘的脚步声；暮色中的塔楼顶上突然出现一个陌生男子；午夜时烛光摇曳，窗外鬼影幢幢；两个学生的行为变得越来越怪异，犹如幽灵附体。悬疑和紧张步步堆迭，如同螺丝拧得越来越紧。几周之后，在一个孤寂的傍晚，家庭女教师的幻象中出现了一个披肩长发的男人，头发酒红色，风度翩翩。格罗斯太太猜测女家教看到的鬼魂正是主人的前贴身男仆——彼德·昆特。他生前不羁，形象极其丑陋，后来他的罪恶终于到了尽头，晚上喝醉酒从结冰的山坡上摔了下去，受了致命伤。紧接着，女教师的幻觉中又出现了一个身穿黑色丧服，神态沮丧，面色苍白的女鬼魂，格罗斯太太推断女鬼就是之前那位专门做家教的年轻女士——杰赛尔小姐。前女家庭教师深受彼德·昆特的引诱，与他坠入爱河，在离开庄园之后不久就去世了。家庭女教师觉得彼德·昆特和杰赛尔两个鬼魂出现在庄园的目的是侵蚀迈尔斯与弗洛拉的纯真心灵，占有他们的灵魂。所以女家教奋力与两个鬼魂做斗争，然而一次都没有成功。故事结尾，两个小姐弟一个发了疯，一个死在了女家教的怀中。

《黛西·米勒》（Daisy Miller）讲述了一个外省美国女孩在罗马的故事，奠定了詹姆斯的文学声誉；《国际事件》（An International Episode）则是他关注美国和欧洲价值观冲突的范例。

而在《阿斯珀恩论文集》、《死者的皈依》和《丛林中的野兽》中，作者非凡的讽刺意识、对情节曲折的喜爱以及对男女关系的看法都得到了细腻的表达。

本书附弗雷德·卡普兰导读

By turns chilling, funny, tragic, and profound, this collection of six Henry James short novels allows readers to experience the full range of his skills and vision.

The title story, “The Turn of the Screw,” is a chilling masterpiece of psychological terror that mixes the phantoms of the mind with those of the supernatural.

“Daisy Miller,” the tale of a provincial American girl in Rome that established James’s literary reputation, and “An International Episode” are superb examples of his focus on the clash between American and European values.

And in “The Aspern Papers,” “The Alter of the Dead,” and “The Beast in the Jungle,” the author’s remarkable sense of irony, his love of plot twists, and his view of male-female relationships find exquisite expression.

With an Introduction by Fred Kaplan

作者简介

亨利·詹姆斯（Henry James, 1843—1916），美国小说家、文学批评家、剧作家、散文家。代表作有小说《一个美国人》《一位女士的画像》《螺丝在拧紧》《鸽翼》《使节》《金碗》等。

亨利·詹姆斯开创了心理分析小说的先河，在他的笔下，出现了人物仿佛迷宫般的内心世界，他的创作对20世纪崛起的现代派及后现代派文学有着很大的影响。

Henry James (1843–1916) spent his early life in America but often traveled with his celebrated family to Europe. After briefly attending Harvard, he began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. Later, he visited Europe and began Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875, he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola and wrote The American. In 1876, he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. His other famous works include The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassma (1886), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject.

弗雷德·卡普兰是纽约市立大学皇后学院和研究生中心的英语荣誉特聘教授。他著有《独特的马克-吐温传》、《戈尔-维达尔传》、《亨利-詹姆斯，天才的想象力》和《查尔斯-狄更斯传》。他的《托马斯-卡莱尔》曾入围美国国家书评人奖决赛，并获得普利策奖评委会提名。其他作品包括《神圣的眼泪》： 维多利亚文学中的多愁善感》、《狄更斯与迷魂术：小说的隐秘之泉》和《稀有装置的奇迹》： 十九世纪诗歌中诗人的自我意识》。

Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Singular Mark Twain, A Biography; Gore Vidal, A Biography; Henry James, The Imagination of Genius and Charles Dickens, A Biography. His Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and was a jury-nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other works include Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature, Dickens and Mesmerism: the Hidden Spring of Fiction, and Miracles of Rare Device: The Poet’s Sense of Self in Nineteenth-Century Poetry.