说不尽的马克·吐温--论《亚当夏娃日记》

马克·吐温在中国可谓家喻户晓,但他晚年的作品<亚当夏娃日记>却鲜为人知,在国内出版的各种文学Ё史书也较少提及.马克·吐温在这部作品中融入了对亡妻奥莉维亚的深深思念,并以自己对爱情和婚姻的体验、反思为基础,借用<圣经>中的故事,着意探讨人类生活的原始状态和本质状态,表达了作者对男人与女人的关系这一人类最基本问题的感悟和思考.在艺术上它也保持了马克·吐温作品一贯的风趣幽默的风格,因此具有隽永的艺术魅力.

On Mark Twain's Diaries of Adam & Eve

Mark Twain's works is well-known in China, but his late fiction Diaries of Adam & Eve is seldom mentioned in published literary history or anthologies. Adapted from a biblical story, Mark Twain writes the pieces in the voices of Adam and Eve, and touches upon the oldest love story of all time, through which the author pours endless love for his wife Olivia into this delightful comedy. The relationship between Adam and Eve mirrors the problems that men and women are in understanding each other throughout the ages, and the exploration of these eternal themes was the main facet of Twain's writing, so this works still has its profound and illuminating significance for the contemporary people, either man or woman.