欧洲各国最著名的一本名著,分别是什么?
沪江2018-02-24 11:22
学习英语当然不能只靠课本,想要学好一门外语,你需要有沉浸式的语言环境。
这并不是说你一定得搬到国外去,或者和老外住在一起;读原版书籍同样是一个不错的办法,而这其中最好用、最靠谱的当然就是经典名著了。
那么,欧美各国最著名的一本经典名著分别是什么?你都知道吗?
英语区 English-Speaking Zone
01
UK: Pride & Prejudice
英国:傲慢与偏见
作者:Jane Austin(简·奥斯汀)
Pride and Prejudice is kind of a literary Rosetta Stone, the inspiration, basis, and model for so many modern novels. You’re probably more familiar with its plot and characters than you think. For a book written in the early 19th century, it’s modernity is surprising only until you realize that this is the novel that in many ways defined what a modern novel is.
《傲慢与偏见》可以说是文学界的一块罗塞塔石碑,同时也是许多现代小说的模板,所以你对其中的情节和人物可能比你自己想象中要熟悉。作为一本写于19世纪的书,它的现代性是非常惊人的,而你稍作了解之后就会知道,这是因为现代小说在很大程度上就是被这本书定义的。
02
Ireland: Ulysses
爱尔兰:尤利西斯
作者:James Joyce(詹姆斯·乔伊斯)
Ulysses did “stream of consciousness” before the term existed, and it’s also a sprawling novel dense with allusions, wordplay, obscure jokes, and intensely, opaquely personal ruminations by the characters.
《尤利西斯》在“意识流”这个概念出现之前就开始使用它了。同时,它也是一本相当错综复杂的小说,充满了隐喻、文字游戏、隐晦的玩笑、以及角色们欲说还休的个人沉思。
03
US: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
美国:汤姆索亚历险记
作者:Mark Twain(马克·吐温)
A third person narrator describes the experiences of the boys, interspersed with occasional social commentary. In its sequel, Mark Twain changes to a first person narrative which takes moral conflicts more personally and thus makes greater social criticism possible.
这本书用第三人称的视角讲述了一群男孩的经历,中间偶尔穿插着社会评论。而在它的续作中,马克吐温换成了第一人称的叙述方式,这让那些道德冲突体现得更切身,也让更高层次的社会批判成为了可能。
04
Canada: The Blind Assassin
加拿大:盲眼刺客
作者:Margaret Atwood
(玛格丽特·阿特伍德)
The novel's protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, grow up well-off but motherless in a small town in Southern Ontario. As an old woman, Iris recalls the events and relationships of her childhood, youth and middle age, including her unhappy marriage. The book includes a novel within a novel, a roman à clef attributed to Laura but published by Iris.
小说的主角艾瑞斯·蔡司,以及她的妹妹劳拉,在安大略南部的一个富裕家庭长大,但是并没有母亲。如今已经年迈的艾瑞斯,回忆了她以前的经历:她的感情、她的童年时光、青春时光、中年时光以及她那不幸福的婚姻。这本小说还描写了一本小说中的小说,是一本劳拉写的纪实小说,但却是由艾瑞斯出版的。
05
Australia: Cloudstreet
澳大利亚:云街
作者:Tim Winton(蒂姆·温顿)
Cloudstreet is a 1991 novel by multi-award winning Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet. Winton's novel is a celebration of community and how people search for connection within family, with the past and the environment within which they live.
《云街》是获奖众多的澳大利亚作家蒂姆·温顿在1991年出版的一本小说。它按照时间的顺序讲述了另个澳大利亚工薪阶层家庭的故事,他们搬进了同一栋大房子,这个房子就叫“云街”。温顿的这本小说是在赞颂社区精神,也讲述了人们如何在家庭、过去以及环境之中寻求与其他人的联系。
法语区 French-Speaking Zone
01
France: The Three Musketeers
法国:三个火枪手
作者:Alexandre Dumas(大仲马)
The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas also frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses, and absurdities of the old regime, giving the novel an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce.
《三个火枪手》基本上是一本历史冒险小说。不过,大仲马也频繁地在其中描写旧政权的不公、暴行与荒唐;当时的法国正在激烈地争论共和制与君主制孰是孰非,这使得这本小说在彼时有着一层政治色彩。
德语区 German-Speaking Zone
01
Germany: Faust
德国:浮士德
作者:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(歌德)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature.
约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德的《浮士德》是一部悲剧,它分为上下两部。虽然它很少在舞台上被完整地呈现出来,但它确实德语界舞台上观众最多的一部剧。很多人都认为《浮士德》是歌德的代表作,同时也是德语文学中最伟大的作品。
02
Switzerland: Heidi
瑞士:海蒂
作者:Johanna Spyri(乔安娜·斯比瑞)
Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature.
《海蒂》是瑞士作家乔安娜·斯比瑞发表于1881年的一本儿童小说。这本书讲的是一个小女孩在她祖父照料下的生活,它发生在阿尔卑斯山的瑞士一侧。《海蒂》是有史以来最畅销的书之一,也是瑞士文学中最广为人知的作品。
03
Austria: Radetzky March
奥地利:拉德兹基进行曲
作者:Joseph Roth(约瑟夫·罗特)
Radetzky March is a 1932 novel by Joseph Roth chronicling the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire via the story of the Trotta family.
《拉德兹基进行曲》是约瑟夫·罗特在1932年写的一本小说,它特罗塔家族的故事出发,按时间顺序记叙了奥匈帝国的衰落与败亡。
西班牙语区 Spanish-Speaking Zone
01
Spain: Don Qixote
西班牙:堂吉诃德
作者:Miguel de Cervantes(塞万提斯)
The story follows the adventures of a noble who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world.
这本书讲的是一个贵族的冒险故事,他读了太多骑士小说,结果失去理智了,于是决定启程去复兴骑士精神、惩恶扬善、为世界带来正义。
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