一位女士的画像
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 初版 1881 年
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年轻的美国姑娘 Isabel Archer 倾倒了欧洲社交界，却沦为了一个精于算计的年长女人的圈套牺牲品。
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 初版 1881 年
年轻的美国姑娘 Isabel Archer 倾倒了欧洲社交界，却沦为了一个精于算计的年长女人的圈套牺牲品。
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……提到读者的注意力跨度时推荐 Henry James，读者一想到要读像 James 作品那样晦涩繁复的东西往往会望而却步。但他们其实错过了好东西。他在《贵妇画像》里著名的第 42 章，是我读过——有史以来读过——对一段失败婚姻进行个人反思写得最好的一段文字。[0] 仅仅因为那是一大段劝退的长篇大论就错失它，说明读者缺乏挑战自己的意愿……
…recommending Henry James in reference to readers attention spans, who often balk at the idea of reading anything quite as dense as from James' writings. But they're missing out. His famous Chp. 42 from Portrait of a Lady is the single best articulation of personal reflection on a failed marriage I have ever read - ever. [0] Losing out on that simply because it's a big imposing paragraph suggests an unwillingness to challenge…
Coetzee 一直在我的待读清单上，听过很多关于他的好评——我想等我读完手头这本就去读：Henry James 的《贵妇画像》;) 更新：太棒了，谢谢推荐——我去大学图书馆找找看。
Coetzee is on my wishlist, heard great things about him - as soon as I am done with my current read I suppose: Portrait of a lady (Henry James) ;) Update: Great, thanks for the suggestion - I'll go look it up at the uni library.
我想知道，照那篇文章的说法，据说是在 James 的《贵妇画像》（1880）中开创的“心理小说”，跟比如《罪与罚》（1866）（或者《地下室手记》，不过我想那是中篇所以不算吧）到底有什么区别？《贵妇画像》在心理层面上更……
I wonder how the 'psychological novel' which was supposed to be invented in James' The Portrait of a Lady (1880) (according to the article) is distinct from, e.g., Crime and Punishment (1866) (or Notes from Underground, though I guess that was a novella so it doesn't count). Is Portrait of a Lady more psychologically…
我读过《黛西·米勒》和《贵妇画像》，依我看两本基本差不多。《贵妇画像》的结局让人很不痛快，而且作者就是故意这么写的。她到底回没回到 Osmond 身边？不过就像《银翼杀手》一样，它有两个版本：一个版本的结局是 Henrietta 告诉 Caspar……
I read Daisy Miller and Portrait of a Lady, kind've the same book if you ask me. The ending of Portrait is unsatisfying and meant to be. Does she go back to Osmond? But like Blade Runner, there are two edits: One ends with Henrietta telling Caspar…
……关于角色的所思所想。如果你反对作者交代某个角色是同性恋，那肯定不能是因为“这不是一个能直接观察到的外在特征”。要是把所有人心理状态的描写全都删掉，《贵妇画像》大概能精简到只剩 5 页。既然我们聊到了 Roald Dahl（他可能在心理深度上确实比不过 Henry James）……
…about what a character is thinking or feeling. If you object to an author mentioning that a character is gay, it surely can't be because that's not a directly observable characteristic. You could cut The Portrait of a Lady down to about 5 pages if you removed all the descriptions of people's psychological states. While we're on the topic of Roald Dahl (who perhaps doesn't quite reach the psychological depth of Henry James),…