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在家里客厅一角的小咖啡桌上，静静躺着一本海明威巴黎回忆『A Moveable Feast』～ 流动的圣节。书角已卷，扉页也已发黄，我还时不时翻开看看。想过换一本更精致的新版，却舍不得那夹在书页里的岁月，字里行间闪过青春的记忆，嘻笑，浪漫，和眼泪。。。
那是二十年前未婚夫带到北京的书，我们相互读着，梦想有一天一起辞了大公司的职，到塞纳河畔钓鱼。。。就是这些海阔天空不着边际的梦捕获了我的心。他喜欢听我轻声细语地念，稍稍的口音也在他耳中成了my fair lady里的“the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain"。
婚后接连来了一儿一女两个小家伙缠身，第一次到巴黎已是六七年后。而真正的熟读海明威则是给孩子们念了无数儿童书的闲暇。那时的我，满心的爱散文，觉得海明威的文虽清澈，却似水，一口饮下不再回味。倒是通过他对菲兹杰罗的描写（Francis Scott Fitzgerald 又译：菲茨杰拉德），爱上了后者细腻的文字。
一连读了菲兹杰罗的盖茨比the great Gatsby，夜色温柔（Tender is the night），人间天堂（This side of the paradise） ，the beautiful and the damned, 几乎能找到的长短篇文字都买回了家。跟先生说，“海明威写给男人，菲兹杰罗写给女人。对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) .” 他说没有关系，你尽可以有自己的喜好。写到这里我才知道其实海明威在我的心里是挥之不去的。
再次读海明威是前两年开博后飘飘和桐儿鼓励我写随想?海明威和巴黎妻子?。把以前的十来本海明威都抱来，再翻一遍，灵感来了：初读他似水，看上去无色，喝下去才知道是烈酒，感到彻腑的后劲儿：简洁的文字里浓缩了爱恨情愁，他描写的爱是炽烈的，他笔下的痛让你的心滴血。
如果说海明威的文字是烈酒，那么菲兹杰罗的文字则如鸡尾酒，一丝丝的甜，一丝丝的苦，在眼里是糖果果( eye candy），心中荡起涟漪，伴随这杯美酒的是爵士乐，那是他命名了的爵士时代"Jazz Age"，还有什么比这更美妙的时光？千年前的醉翁大师李白曰“人生得意须尽欢，莫使金樽空对月，天生我材必有用，千金散尽还复来！”
我还是他们两位忠实的Fan，割舍不去的是丝丝生命气息相关连。是他们把我带到了那个遥远的二三十年代，那个美国历史上的黄金时代，一次大战后看不到还有二次大战来临的人们，一掷千金，一醉方休。锦瑟华年谁与度，拥有的是大把的时光，写下了激情的文字，却被称为迷茫的一代（the lost generation），寻求着自我也寻求着爱。
手里还有一本书，是我去年的圣诞礼物，菲兹杰罗太太回忆录Zelda，她出身名门，爱写作爱绘画爱芭蕾更爱party，那个时代的骄娇女和先生过着被人艳羡的生活，却总也填不满欲望所求。高兴了就租别墅在地中海过上一夏天，二十年代就开上自己的车看世界。也是这些多彩的生活让菲兹杰罗笔下生花，他的文字从年轻时的无限柔情化为后来的挚爱中伴着些许疯狂与忧愁。
想当年，他的第一本书是为和Zelda订婚而作，要想获得法官女儿的芳心，颇费一番苦心。他把在普林斯顿大学时写的剧本改编一下，年仅二十几岁就出版了this side of paradise（人间天堂），不同凡响。他的作品受好莱坞青睐，多次改编为电影，而他后期的创作也增加了商业的娱乐的元素。四十四岁却因心脏病，英年早逝，令人唏嘘，此时的Zelta还在瑞士一家精神病院，昔日的金童玉女被酒消磨了生命。醉过方知酒浓，爱过才知情重。斯人已去，带走了他的爵士时代和美国梦。。。他未完成的『最后的大亨』（the last Tycoon）令我不忍卒读。
去年满心欢喜以为圣诞节要上演新版Gatsby，延迟了，一直等到了今年却有些犹豫是不是去看，预告片看着有些闹腾，也许正是要体现那新富的浮华? 而我心里的二三十年代已经沉淀成一个经典。然而，如果可以穿越时空，就象午夜巴黎的电影，收到Party的邀请，我能不心向神怡，前去赴宴吗？
谨以此小文作看电影的读前感，我们会带着儿女一起去看，因为他们也在上高中后读了这本书，大宝问我可不可以在书里写写画画作笔记，我说当然可以，那将是我巴不得一份小知音笔记，窥到小伙子成长的心理。不管影片是不是我心里描绘的那幅画面，毕竟是盖茨比的party，我愿怀着好奇心去邻家，在歌舞升平里陶醉一刻。
海明威与菲兹杰罗
海明威一家
菲兹杰罗一家，let's party!
从二十年代的默片开始，the Great Gatsby 已经被多次搬上银幕，这部74年版的影片更象我心里的形象。
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• Great work! -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) (2 reads) 5/23/13 14:27:13
• Thanks Lucidus! -京燕花园- ♀ (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!-京燕花园- ♀ (769 bytes) (12 reads) 5/24/13 14:27:44
• 海明威曾经是我的硕士论文。遇到一位也爱他的人，像遇到一个知音。顶 ！ -香草山上- ♀ (0 bytes) (5 reads) 5/24/13 13:54:03
• 握手握手，知音香草！ -京燕花园- ♀ (0 bytes) (0 reads) 5/24/13 14:29:48
握手握手爱书的粉玫瑰，呵呵我也是擦了尘才照的相。我们周末会去看电影，回来咱们一起聊观后感。
长周末愉快(^.^)happy memorial day!
这样有劲儿的酒要不要干上一杯？畅叙心怀，可能酒给了他们灵感，海明威写过"hunger was good discipline"，饥渴的时候奋笔。
我们认识好久了，从大红枣儿说起hehe。昨天我从target买了一本杂志你可能也会喜欢，event bookazines牌the Great Gatsby Era. 上网就可以查到封面的样子。(^.^)
--很欣赏这几句，说得非常好！燕子有水平。（而且这段里面提到了俺，哈哈）
亲爱的桐你回来啦，带着家乡的气息，还有百慕大的海风～～～好开心朋友们团聚小书屋，咖啡栀子花飘香(^.^)
这个新电影咋办呢，还造了3D效果，新的二十年代又快来了。还是要去party看看究竟。。。
心姐好，您分析得真深刻，医生的锐利眼光，您的笔就是手术刀，把这社会病灶剖析。如今不随波逐流，沉静的人太难得了。我先生以前也提到盖茨比那时象现在的中国。
我喜欢他写的tender is the night , 我好像很没有定力，戴着rose colored glasses，还向party张望着。
非常敬佩心姐的睿智和沉静(^.^)
尼斯姐姐好，海明威经过战火洗礼，虽然他没有上很多学，但酷爱阅读，生活的磨炼让他简洁的文字成为文学转折点，硬汉也有柔情。
他说把句子削到骨，简单得不能再简单，写下一句真实听到别人说过的话。看似不费吹灰之力，其实绞尽脑汁。
早晨再来一杯咖啡，与尼斯姐姐慢慢聊^_^ 😄
飘姐姐好，俺读书都是囫囵吞枣的呀，变成肉肉啦。琼瑶小说我们那时也特别流行，我表妹买了好几十本，我们一起那个着迷呀。所以很多年后看到有还珠格格我还买了一套碟。很多年的书呀信呀还留着，我变成了恋旧的人。
您家小乖宝太可爱了，一家人围着他转，爱不过来都(^.^)
我也打算看这个电影。据说新电影过于强调浮华的场景，比看小说差远了。。。看看就知道了。
问燕子好。
我感觉他在描述盖茨比这个人物中写一个美国梦，然而又破碎了，回到一战后的背景，汽车工业的崛起，城市化的快速发展，同时人们无所适从精神状态和追求财富名利纸醉金迷的生活后的精神空虚。
书中写的汤姆的势力，戴仄的浅薄，盖茨比神秘后边的空虚，沃森的挣扎和替天行道的报复，和整个美国社会在崛起时各阶层的倾轧，欺骗，寻求失落，人性的迷惘，贪婪，弄虚作假，往上爬，成功后的空虚，在这个薄薄的小说里菲兹杰德用他精彩的文笔和叙述，通过一个爱情的悲剧故事讲出来。他和海明威一样写那个时代的绝望和疯狂。
它揭示人性和社会的方方面面，贪婪，渴望，争雄，软弱，欺骗，冷漠，自私，爱情在所有这些的压力面前被压迫的无路可去，被粉碎。
我读他倒是觉得很和中国的现实状况，人们对物质的疯狂追求和整个社会的道德沦丧，精神空虚。近百年来社会成熟了人性依然。大家仍旧欣赏菲《茨杰德伟大的盖茨比》带来的思考。
谢谢燕子分享自己的读书体会，写得好。敬佩MM读这么多好书。
这位记者又是作家的海明威，经历两次世界大战，曾获得诺贝尔文学奖，他影响几代人。
谢谢燕子的文字，让我感受到燕子笔下的海明威与故事，优美的文字里，拥有一份与先生共同读过的书籍，羡慕。
我读的书现在还能记得书名和情节的，估计就是琼瑶的系列了：）人和人的差距怎么就这样的大呢~
好羡慕你和先生拥有同一本共同阅读过的至今还保存完好的书。。。
飘飘妹妹好，谢谢你一直的鼓励，回头看看以前写的海明威是给你交的作业：）你写的文和诗都深受大家喜爱，真诚且灵气十足，写到了我们心里。非常珍惜，知音好友(^.^)
握手握手，海明威的文字有力度也rustic，好像上面他的全家福，那时他才27岁，很老成的样子。菲兹杰罗的文字精雕细琢，比较婉约，是我们喜欢的。希望新电影好看(^.^)
给松松妹妹沙发香茶～～～谢谢你，我们很幸运有好书好友相伴，每个人都象一本书，每天开心读你(^.^)
燕子姐姐是个博学的人，从认识最初的你便有这样的感觉，你写过很多书评，影评，字字句句朴素简约，丝毫没有哗众取宠的喧嚣，但却彻头彻尾地感动人心，这就是功力：）
喜欢。要向姐姐学习，多读书，低调感性地做人：）
谢谢你写的美文，意趣隽逸，情深意挚。
燕子姐读了那么多的书，非常佩服:)