意匠经营 风华绝代——哈代小说《还乡》的文本赏析

Sharp Observation and Particular Reflection——Appreciation of the text "the Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy

在小说《还乡》中,哈代凭着他自己独特的人生经历、丰富的想象力和对大自然的感悟性,用精美的措词、和谐的语音、多变的句法细致生动地将一幅壮美而又昏沉的爱敦荒原展现在读者面前,盛赞荒原的卓越崇高,慨叹荒原的苍莽未凿,并在小说文本中产生了一种张力,成为故事情节发展的独特背景,象征着左右人类命运的一种外部力量。哈代对荒原的描绘富有象征性和预言性,已成为英国文学中的散文名篇。

In the Return of the Native, Hardy, with his own particular experience, his rich imagination and his sense of nature, vividly presents the significant and gloomy picture of Egdon Heath in the elegant diction, the harmonious sound and the various forms of the sentence, appreciating its great glory and its primitive majesty, which create a tension and symbolize an external power which controls the fate of the characters in the story. The description of Egdon Heath has become the elegant prose in the English literature.