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The House of the Seven Gables
ISBN: 9780553212709
作者: Nathaniel Hawthorne
出版社: Bantam Books
出版年: 1981-3
页数: 245
定价: 20.00元
装帧: Mass Market Paperback
内容简介
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In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall.
Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables “a Romance,” and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared “the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.”
作者简介
纳撒尼尔·霍桑，19世纪美国文学经典作家，实践并发展了罗曼司体裁，擅长象征主义手法和心理分析，其艺术之花得益于新英格兰历史和清教主义的滋养，一直被视为美国本土文学的代表，亨利·詹姆斯甚至以“地方性”来形容他的创作。然而，他的作品既是本土的，也是国际性的，融合了欧洲多元文化传统，他的目光既是回溯性的，也根植于坚实的现在，他致力于建构一个联结“现实与幻境”、“真实与想象”的晦暗不明的“中间地带”，以一种曲折隐秘的方式传达他对美国历史、当代社会、政治、宗教、艺术和道德等诸多问题的见解。他的作品，因其深邃的思想与精湛的艺术技巧，散发出持久的艺术魅力，是当之无愧的美国文学的典范。
