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在家裏客廳一角的小咖啡桌上，靜靜躺著一本海明威巴黎回憶『A Moveable Feast』～ 流動的聖節。書角已卷，扉頁也已發黃，我還時不時翻開看看。想過換一本更精致的新版，卻舍不得那夾在書頁裏的歲月，字裏行間閃過青春的記憶，嘻笑，浪漫，和眼淚。。。
那是二十年前未婚夫帶到北京的書，我們相互讀著，夢想有一天一起辭了大公司的職，到塞納河畔釣魚。。。就是這些海闊天空不著邊際的夢捕獲了我的心。他喜歡聽我輕聲細語地念，稍稍的口音也在他耳中成了my fair lady裏的“the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain"。
婚後接連來了一兒一女兩個小家夥纏身，第一次到巴黎已是六七年後。而真正的熟讀海明威則是給孩子們念了無數兒童書的閑暇。那時的我，滿心的愛散文，覺得海明威的文雖清澈，卻似水，一口飲下不再回味。倒是通過他對菲茲傑羅的描寫（Francis Scott Fitzgerald 又譯：菲茨傑拉德），愛上了後者細膩的文字。
一連讀了菲茲傑羅的蓋茨比the great Gatsby，夜色溫柔（Tender is the night），人間天堂（This side of the paradise） ，the beautiful and the damned, 幾乎能找到的長短篇文字都買回了家。跟先生說，“海明威寫給男人，菲茲傑羅寫給女人。對不起我不能跟你一起泛(fan)海了（sorry I can't be a Hemingway fan with you anymore, my new love is Fitzgerald) .” 他說沒有關係，你盡可以有自己的喜好。寫到這裏我才知道其實海明威在我的心裏是揮之不去的。
再次讀海明威是前兩年開博後飄飄和桐兒鼓勵我寫隨想?海明威和巴黎妻子?。把以前的十來本海明威都抱來，再翻一遍，靈感來了：初讀他似水，看上去無色，喝下去才知道是烈酒，感到徹腑的後勁兒：簡潔的文字裏濃縮了愛恨情愁，他描寫的愛是熾烈的，他筆下的痛讓你的心滴血。
如果說海明威的文字是烈酒，那麽菲茲傑羅的文字則如雞尾酒，一絲絲的甜，一絲絲的苦，在眼裏是糖果果( eye candy），心中蕩起漣漪，伴隨這杯美酒的是爵士樂，那是他命名了的爵士時代"Jazz Age"，還有什麽比這更美妙的時光？千年前的醉翁大師李白曰“人生得意須盡歡，莫使金樽空對月，天生我材必有用，千金散盡還複來！”
我還是他們兩位忠實的Fan，割舍不去的是絲絲生命氣息相關連。是他們把我帶到了那個遙遠的二三十年代，那個美國曆史上的黃金時代，一次大戰後看不到還有二次大戰來臨的人們，一擲千金，一醉方休。錦瑟華年誰與度，擁有的是大把的時光，寫下了激情的文字，卻被稱為迷茫的一代（the lost generation），尋求著自我也尋求著愛。
手裏還有一本書，是我去年的聖誕禮物，菲茲傑羅太太回憶錄Zelda，她出身名門，愛寫作愛繪畫愛芭蕾更愛party，那個時代的驕嬌女和先生過著被人豔羨的生活，卻總也填不滿欲望所求。高興了就租別墅在地中海過上一夏天，二十年代就開上自己的車看世界。也是這些多彩的生活讓菲茲傑羅筆下生花，他的文字從年輕時的無限柔情化為後來的摯愛中伴著些許瘋狂與憂愁。
想當年，他的第一本書是為和Zelda訂婚而作，要想獲得法官女兒的芳心，頗費一番苦心。他把在普林斯頓大學時寫的劇本改編一下，年僅二十幾歲就出版了this side of paradise（人間天堂），不同凡響。他的作品受好萊塢青睞，多次改編為電影，而他後期的創作也增加了商業的娛樂的元素。四十四歲卻因心髒病，英年早逝，令人唏噓，此時的Zelta還在瑞士一家精神病院，昔日的金童玉女被酒消磨了生命。醉過方知酒濃，愛過才知情重。斯人已去，帶走了他的爵士時代和美國夢。。。他未完成的『最後的大亨』（the last Tycoon）令我不忍卒讀。
去年滿心歡喜以為聖誕節要上演新版Gatsby，延遲了，一直等到了今年卻有些猶豫是不是去看，預告片看著有些鬧騰，也許正是要體現那新富的浮華? 而我心裏的二三十年代已經沉澱成一個經典。然而，如果可以穿越時空，就象午夜巴黎的電影，收到Party的邀請，我能不心向神怡，前去赴宴嗎？
謹以此小文作看電影的讀前感，我們會帶著兒女一起去看，因為他們也在上高中後讀了這本書，大寶問我可不可以在書裏寫寫畫畫作筆記，我說當然可以，那將是我巴不得一份小知音筆記，窺到小夥子成長的心理。不管影片是不是我心裏描繪的那幅畫麵，畢竟是蓋茨比的party，我願懷著好奇心去鄰家，在歌舞升平裏陶醉一刻。
海明威與菲茲傑羅
海明威一家
菲茲傑羅一家，let's party!
從二十年代的默片開始，the Great Gatsby 已經被多次搬上銀幕，這部74年版的影片更象我心裏的形象。
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美語論壇貼?經典小說the Great Gatsby在線閱讀?
• Great work! -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) (2 reads) 5/23/13 14:27:13
• Thanks Lucidus! -京燕花園- ♀ (0 bytes) (0 reads) 5/23/13 17:08:36
• Well written and presentedYou know how to present your emtions in well decorated forms with colorful text and pictures. The contents are just as well presented.
I usually write a book review if I feel a strong urge about what I read. For some strange reason I don't have much to say after I read Fitzgerald's books. I've read The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of the Paradise, as well as other lesser known ones like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and some of his short pieces and even plays. He was an icon of 1920s American literature and I read his books with attention and zeal. But I just don't have a strong feeling of any kind. The Great Gatsby was dramatic enough after the car accident that killed his girl friend and at the end of his suicide. But I thought that was too artificial. A store made up for dramatic effects. He was definitely a master of English and I agree with you, that to read his books one needs to sit down and find a really quite place to read it and be able to appreciate every word. He is just too subtle for me. No wonder women love his novels.
Heimingway is another famous author whose works don't really inspire me, with the exception of The Old Man and Sea. I admired that short novel greatly. I particuarly like his use of very simple words and short phrases to describe the emotions and thoughts of his subjects. Even the those simple words like "a", "the", "is", "are" are well and carefully placed so that readers are not aware of anything else but be absorbed completely in his stories, which in the case of The Old Man and Sea is a really simple one. One can just describe the whole story in less than a dozen words, and yet there have been so much said about this book, I didn't want to heap up my comments on it. I could add nothing new but praise and admiiration.
Heimingway's other books do not stir up my mind like The Old Man and Sea. It seems that his other novels are all of the same kind of construction and style. His novels describe bigger events and stories at very personal level in great details of the daily activities of the protagnists. The Snows at Mount Kalimanjaro, Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bells Toll and many other novels are all alike in this respect.
I think I am more interested in stories than the literary skills. I like stories that sound "real", even fictions. May be that's because I intermix my readings with biographies and fictions. If a book doesn't tell a moving story then I cannot keep my concentration. I keep look for dramatic changes. But most of Heimingway's and Fitzgerald's stories are fairly predictable. These are "pure" literature exercises that are like Chopin's recitals, hard and artsy, and more appreciated by those who love the style, like sipping a cup of well made coffee, one drip at a time. -bmdn- (2958 bytes) (14 reads) 5/24/13 10:23:05
• Very well said! Thank you so much bmdn for your inputs.
You are an avid reader and writer, and translator!
Women tend to be attracted to Romantic stories and light comedies. They shed tears easily with melancholy scenes. I look to the world through a layer of rose colored glasses.
Guys are not afraid of the thrilling tales and dramatic changes in details. With a sharp eye like yours, you see right through to the core.
Fitzgerald liked to write about romans, the youthful. People say some of his materials came from his wife's writing or at least inspired by her drafts. Meanwhile, she was kind of jealous that his writing time was taking his attentions away from her.
I enjoy biographies as well. Hope you've found your favorite cup of tea, coffee, wine, big wave full of ocean...to savor...or gulp!-京燕花園- ♀ (769 bytes) (12 reads) 5/24/13 14:27:44
• 海明威曾經是我的碩士論文。遇到一位也愛他的人，像遇到一個知音。頂 ！ -香草山上- ♀ (0 bytes) (5 reads) 5/24/13 13:54:03
• 握手握手，知音香草！ -京燕花園- ♀ (0 bytes) (0 reads) 5/24/13 14:29:48
握手握手愛書的粉玫瑰，嗬嗬我也是擦了塵才照的相。我們周末會去看電影，回來咱們一起聊觀後感。
長周末愉快(^.^)happy memorial day!
這樣有勁兒的酒要不要幹上一杯？暢敘心懷，可能酒給了他們靈感，海明威寫過"hunger was good discipline"，饑渴的時候奮筆。
我們認識好久了，從大紅棗兒說起hehe。昨天我從target買了一本雜誌你可能也會喜歡，event bookazines牌the Great Gatsby Era. 上網就可以查到封麵的樣子。(^.^)
--很欣賞這幾句，說得非常好！燕子有水平。（而且這段裏麵提到了俺，哈哈）
親愛的桐你回來啦，帶著家鄉的氣息，還有百慕大的海風～～～好開心朋友們團聚小書屋，咖啡梔子花飄香(^.^)
這個新電影咋辦呢，還造了3D效果，新的二十年代又快來了。還是要去party看看究竟。。。
心姐好，您分析得真深刻，醫生的銳利眼光，您的筆就是手術刀，把這社會病灶剖析。如今不隨波逐流，沉靜的人太難得了。我先生以前也提到蓋茨比那時象現在的中國。
我喜歡他寫的tender is the night , 我好像很沒有定力，戴著rose colored glasses，還向party張望著。
非常敬佩心姐的睿智和沉靜(^.^)
尼斯姐姐好，海明威經過戰火洗禮，雖然他沒有上很多學，但酷愛閱讀，生活的磨煉讓他簡潔的文字成為文學轉折點，硬漢也有柔情。
他說把句子削到骨，簡單得不能再簡單，寫下一句真實聽到別人說過的話。看似不費吹灰之力，其實絞盡腦汁。
早晨再來一杯咖啡，與尼斯姐姐慢慢聊^_^ 😄
飄姐姐好，俺讀書都是囫圇吞棗的呀，變成肉肉啦。瓊瑤小說我們那時也特別流行，我表妹買了好幾十本，我們一起那個著迷呀。所以很多年後看到有還珠格格我還買了一套碟。很多年的書呀信呀還留著，我變成了戀舊的人。
您家小乖寶太可愛了，一家人圍著他轉，愛不過來都(^.^)
我也打算看這個電影。據說新電影過於強調浮華的場景，比看小說差遠了。。。看看就知道了。
問燕子好。
我感覺他在描述蓋茨比這個人物中寫一個美國夢，然而又破碎了，回到一戰後的背景，汽車工業的崛起，城市化的快速發展，同時人們無所適從精神狀態和追求財富名利紙醉金迷的生活後的精神空虛。
書中寫的湯姆的勢力，戴仄的淺薄，蓋茨比神秘後邊的空虛，沃森的掙紮和替天行道的報複，和整個美國社會在崛起時各階層的傾軋，欺騙，尋求失落，人性的迷惘，貪婪，弄虛作假，往上爬，成功後的空虛，在這個薄薄的小說裏菲茲傑德用他精彩的文筆和敘述，通過一個愛情的悲劇故事講出來。他和海明威一樣寫那個時代的絕望和瘋狂。
它揭示人性和社會的方方麵麵，貪婪，渴望，爭雄，軟弱，欺騙，冷漠，自私，愛情在所有這些的壓力麵前被壓迫的無路可去，被粉碎。
我讀他倒是覺得很和中國的現實狀況，人們對物質的瘋狂追求和整個社會的道德淪喪，精神空虛。近百年來社會成熟了人性依然。大家仍舊欣賞菲《茨傑德偉大的蓋茨比》帶來的思考。
謝謝燕子分享自己的讀書體會，寫得好。敬佩MM讀這麽多好書。
這位記者又是作家的海明威，經曆兩次世界大戰，曾獲得諾貝爾文學獎，他影響幾代人。
謝謝燕子的文字，讓我感受到燕子筆下的海明威與故事，優美的文字裏，擁有一份與先生共同讀過的書籍，羨慕。
我讀的書現在還能記得書名和情節的，估計就是瓊瑤的係列了：）人和人的差距怎麽就這樣的大呢~
好羨慕你和先生擁有同一本共同閱讀過的至今還保存完好的書。。。
飄飄妹妹好，謝謝你一直的鼓勵，回頭看看以前寫的海明威是給你交的作業：）你寫的文和詩都深受大家喜愛，真誠且靈氣十足，寫到了我們心裏。非常珍惜，知音好友(^.^)
握手握手，海明威的文字有力度也rustic，好像上麵他的全家福，那時他才27歲，很老成的樣子。菲茲傑羅的文字精雕細琢，比較婉約，是我們喜歡的。希望新電影好看(^.^)
給鬆鬆妹妹沙發香茶～～～謝謝你，我們很幸運有好書好友相伴，每個人都象一本書，每天開心讀你(^.^)
燕子姐姐是個博學的人，從認識最初的你便有這樣的感覺，你寫過很多書評，影評，字字句句樸素簡約，絲毫沒有嘩眾取寵的喧囂，但卻徹頭徹尾地感動人心，這就是功力：）
喜歡。要向姐姐學習，多讀書，低調感性地做人：）
謝謝你寫的美文，意趣雋逸，情深意摯。
燕子姐讀了那麽多的書，非常佩服:)