经济学人下载:现代生活方式--特罗洛普系列书评(1)

Books & arts
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Trollope’s world
特罗洛普的世界

The way to live now
现在的生活方式

Discover the king of Victorian box sets
发现维多利亚套装系列之王

Anthony trollope’s novels are almost custom-made for prolonged confinement. There are a lot of them—47 in all, divided up between single-hits (“The Way We Live Now”) and “box sets”, such as the six parliamentary books and six clerical ones. And they are utterly addictive: pacier than Dickens and with a wider variety of characters than Austen. Timothy West’s superb audio versions of the best-known means you can listen to them while cooking or walking (if you are allowed out).
安东尼·特罗洛普的小说几乎都是为长期监禁量身定做的。有很多这样的书——总共47本，分为单本畅销书(《我们现在的生活方式》)和盒装书(如六本议会书籍和六本牧师书籍)。而且这些书完全会让人上瘾：比狄更斯的节奏还快，人物比奥斯汀还多。蒂莫西·韦斯特最著名的版本的超棒音频版本，意味着你可以在做饭或走路的时候听(如果你被允许外出的话)。

Trollope is sometimes considered a niche author for greying Anglophiles. He wrote about quintessentially British institutions such as the Houses of Parliament and the Church of England. He lived in the high Victorian era when women and servants knew their places and men wore gigantic beards. Don’t be put off: his appeal transcends his time and class. The lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, wrote the song “Can You Forgive Her?” after reading Trollope’s novel of the same name.
特罗洛普有时被认为是一位专为亲英老年人士写的小众作家。他描写了典型的英国制度，如议会大厦和英国国教。他生活在维多利亚时代的鼎盛时期，那时女人和仆人都知道自己的位置，男人都留着大胡子。不要推迟：他的魅力超越了其时代和阶层。“宠物店男孩”乐队的主唱尼尔·泰纳读过特罗洛普的同名小说后，写了《你能原谅她吗》这首歌。

His greatest theme is an eternal one: the lust for power and prestige, and the way it colours and warps human affairs. This theme dominates his ecclesiastical and parliamentary novels alike; it involves his female characters just as much as his men. Arguably, the most accomplished politician in his books is a woman, Lady Glencora Palliser, who brilliantly proves that, whatever the technical rules of the franchise, the dinner table was as much a centre of power as the Cabinet table.
他最伟大的主题是永恒的：对权力和威望的渴望，以及对人类事务的渲染和扭曲。这一主题支配着他的教会小说和议会小说；涉及的女性角色和男性角色一样多。可以说，在他的书中最有成就的政治家是一位女性，格伦科拉•帕利瑟夫人出色地证明了，无论这个系列的技术规则是什么，餐桌与内阁餐桌一样，都是权力的中心。