王尔德奇异故事集

by Oscar Wilde, 鲁冬旭 (Translator), 奥斯卡·王尔德

★ 《阿瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》《没有秘密的斯芬克斯》《坎特维尔的幽灵》《模范百万富翁》《W.H.先生的画像》：王尔德创作的五部短篇小说中文版奇异大集结。
★ 手相师、古堡、幽灵、美丽小女孩、莎士比亚十四行诗……神秘氛围层层逼近。
★ 悬疑、惊奇、迷人的哥特风格。大人们，去读王尔德吧，你会拥有一颗有趣且不老的灵魂。
★ 来自19世纪的『世界奇妙物语』，王尔德从来不谈话，他只讲故事。

出版于1891年的《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行和其他故事》是一部由奥斯卡·王尔德创作的奇异短篇小说集，包括《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》《坎特维尔的幽灵》《没有秘密的狮身人面像》和《模范百万富翁》，《W.H先生的画像》是后来增补进去的。《王尔德奇异故事集》是中文简体全译本。这些故事写于1887年至1891年，以其幽默、反转、荒诞、微悬疑、微惊悚、微浪漫剖析了维多利亚时代的现实问题，同时也探讨了人性的美与丑，探索着自我的复杂与矛盾，坐实了王尔德“故事大师”的美誉。

被手相师预言可怕命运的年轻勋爵……
始终洋溢着难以描述的神秘感的女子……
在英国古堡里游荡了几百年的阴森鬼魂……
乐于扮成可怜乞丐的百万富翁……
为了证明对某种理论的绝对信仰献出生命的漂亮男人……

惊奇又温暖，悲伤又治愈，荒唐又魔幻，异想天开又耐人寻味。

作者
奥斯卡·王尔德
Oscar Wilde（1854—1900）
19世纪英国作家、戏剧家、诗人，唯美主义灵魂人物。
1888年，王尔德出版童话故事集《快乐王子及其他故事》，英国杂志将他与安徒生相提并论。
1890年，发表长篇小说《道林·格雷的画像》，因艺术观不被世人接受而备受争议。
1893年，《莎乐美》等剧作陆续面世，大获成功，王尔德成了英国维多利亚时代风靡一时的剧作家。
事业如日中天之时，一场与阿尔弗莱德·道格拉斯勋爵的同性恋爱使王尔德官司缠身，最终他被判“严重猥亵罪”入狱两年，在狱中他写下长信《自深深处》。
出狱后王尔德前往巴黎，3年后在一家小旅馆去世，年仅46岁。

译者
鲁冬旭
香港大学经济金融系本科，普林斯顿大学金融系硕士，现居美国加州伯克利，自由译者。
已出版译著《平面国》《一个利他主义者之死》《X的奇幻之旅》等。
在读童话的年纪已经觉得王尔德是一等一的妙人。
希望通过翻译将王尔德“唯美伤感”与“毒舌刻薄”之有趣对照分享给更多的读者。

162 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2020

About the author

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.

Reviews

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

有几个小短篇还挺引发思考的。
值得四星，但没到想鼓掌欢呼的五星。

[冷面 · Rating 4 out of 5]

不是哥特短篇小说，只是奇异故事，比较喜欢坎特维尔的幽灵。以为是一个鬼故事，却不是这么简单，是英美的冲突，令我眼前一亮。