纯真年代
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 初版 1920 年
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作为 Edith Wharton 最著名的小说，本书作于第一次世界大战刚结束之际，精妙绝伦地剖析了 19 世纪 70 年代的纽约上流社会——那是她成长的世界，也是她毕生都在逃离的囚笼。Wharton 笔下的主人公 Newland Archer 迷人、老练、通达，是这一社会的典型产物；他接受其规范并遵守其法则，但同时也清醒地认识到其局限。他与无可挑剔的 May Welland 订婚，本可确保一个安稳而传统的未来，直到 May 的表姐 Ellen Olenska 的到来打破了一切……
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……《密西西比河上的生活》和《苦行记》。《爱玛》和《傲慢与偏见》。《伊利亚特》、《奥德赛》和《埃涅阿斯纪》的前半部分。《看得见风景的房间》和《道林·格雷的画像》。《了不起的盖茨比》、《野性的呼唤》和《纯真年代》。《战争与和平》和《安娜·卡列尼娜》。《堂吉诃德》。
…the Mississippi and Roughing It. Emma and Pride and Prejudice. Iliad, Odyssey and first half of the Aeneid. A Room With A View and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Great Gatsby, Call of the Wild and Age of Innocence. War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Don Quixote.
……欧洲关于阶级的规矩，与此同时，经济的大幅增长催生了大量暴发户（noveau riche）。洛克菲勒和范德比尔特这样的人物就是那个时候出现的。沃顿的《纯真年代》正是以那个时代为背景（强烈推荐这本书）。老钱们去音乐学院歌剧院看歌剧，而新贵们则去大都会歌剧院。（猜猜哪个现在还在。）
…European conventions for class, and simultaneously, there was a ton of economic growth fueling the noveau riche. That's when we got people like Rockefeller and Vanderbilt. It's the time when Wharton's The Age of Innocence was set (highly recommend this book). Old money went to the opera at the Academy of Music Opera House, and new money went to the Metropolitan Opera House. (Guess which one is still around.)
……《欢乐之家》，我十八岁上大学那会儿试着读过，完全没读懂。现在五十四岁再读，太震撼了。绝对的震撼。而且文笔简直棒极了。我还很喜欢《纯真年代》和《乡村风俗》。每天早上翻翻伊迪丝·沃顿的书真是太棒了，秒杀我在网上能找到的任何电视剧或电影。https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/bret-easton-ellis-...
…House of Mirth, which I had tried reading as an eighteen- year-old college boy and just didn’t get. Now at fifty-four, it’s crushing. Absolutely crushing. And the writing is just stupendous. I also love Age of Innocence and The Custom of the County. Just going to Edith Wharton every morning was fantastic and blew away any television or movie that I could find online. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/bret-easton-ellis-...
婚礼上一次被视为神圣——即不接受公众评头论足——是什么时候？在伊迪丝·沃顿的《纯真年代》里，新娘的母亲一想到记者可能会拍下女儿的照片发在报纸上就吓坏了；而记者们肯定会这么干的。还有一种叫做“闹洞房/喧闹游行（shivaree）”的民间传统……
When last were weddings sacred, in the sense of not open to public comment? In Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence the mother of the bride is horrified at the notion that reporters might take a picture of her daughter and put it in the newspapers; and surely they would have. There is the folk tradition of the "shivaree".…
我想起了伊迪丝·沃顿《纯真年代》里的一段话：“”” 拆除遮阳棚、将新娘暴露给挤在外面争相挤到帆布缝隙前的女装裁缝和报社记者这帮乌合之众的想法，甚至超出了……
I think of a passage in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: """ The idea of doing away with this awning, and revealing the bride to the mob of dressmakers and newspaper reporters who stood outside fighting to get near the joints of the canvas, exceeded even…