
爱的发明
The invention of love
Tom Stoppard · 初版 1997 年
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“时值 1936 年,A.E. Housman 正乘船渡过冥河 Styx,庆幸自己终于死去了。他的记忆却戏剧般鲜活。流经 Tom Stoppard 的 The Invention of Love 中的那条河流,将 Hades 与 Housman 青年时代的 Oxford 紧紧相连:High Victorian 道德准则正受到 Aesthetic movement 的冲击,而一位名叫 Wilde 的爱尔兰学生正准备在伦敦舞台上崭露头角。”“在这趟旅程中,如今已是暮年的学者兼诗人 Housman 直面年轻时的自己,以及他毕生挚爱的男人 Moses Jackson 的回忆——那个无法回……的英俊运动员
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……并没有特指任何人。每次他写书评,就按需要微调一下那些预制的骂人话,搞定。一个心理扭曲变态的人,但又极度引人入胜。(如果你真好奇,去看看 Tom Stoppard 的《爱的发明》(The Invention of Love)吧。)
…at nobody in particular. When he wrote a review, he would tweak the pre-fab insults as needed and voila. A sick, twisted person, but fascinating. (If you're really curious, check out Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love.)
……这里的各位大概都读过《君臣人子小伯特》(Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead)或《阿卡迪亚》(Arcadia),这两部大概仍是他最棒的剧作,也绝对是了解他作品的最佳入门途径。我个人也非常喜欢《爱的发明》(The Invention of Love),讲的是那位忧郁、备受折磨的同性恋诗人兼古典学学者 A.E. 豪斯曼的故事,据说这也是 Stoppard 自己最满意的剧本。不过这绝对算小众题材,你可能需要……
…folks here will have read either Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead or Arcadia, which are still probably his best plays, and certainly the best introduction to his work. I personally also really like The Invention of Love, about the gloomy tortured homosexual poet and classical scholar A.E. Housman, which was also apparently Stoppard's favorite of his plays. It's definitely niche territory though and you might need to…