斯维亚日斯基——一个被评论家忽视的形象

Sviazhsky an Image Ignored by Critics

斯维亚日斯基在《安娜·卡列尼娜》中是一个有着特殊作用而又往往被读者和评论家忽视的人物。他是极端的自由主义者,向往的是西欧的生活方式。他本身是地道的俄罗斯贵族,却＂蔑视贵族＂;他看不起自己的国家,认为俄国太落后,在俄国简直无法生活,但他在俄国又＂适得其所＂,热衷选举等政治活动。托尔斯泰塑造这样一个人物,是对19世纪70年代俄国贵族中那些脱离现实的俄国贵族自由派的讽刺。

In Anna Karenina, Sviazhsky is a character who has special function, but has been often ignored by both readers and critics. He is an extreme liberalist longing for Western European lifestyle. He himself was a local Russian aristocrat, but he ＂despised aristocracy＂. He looked down upon his own country, and believed Russia was lagged far behind, but he was m posluon in Russia and enthusiastic to political events such as elections. Tolstoy shaped such a character in order to lampoon Russian aristocratic liberalists who isolated from the reality in 1870s.