Howards End

中文名：
霍华德庄园
作者：
E·M·福斯特 E. M. Forster
类型：
小说经典
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Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcox's soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted passages in literature:


Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

Like all of Forster's work, Howards End concerns itself with class, nationality, economic status, and how each of these affects personal relationships. It follows the intertwined fortunes of the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and the Wilcox family over the course of several years. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, can't be bothered with the life of the mind or the heart, leading, instead, outer lives of "telegrams and anger" that foster "such virtues as neatness, decision, and obedience, virtues of the second rank, no doubt, but they have formed our civilization." Helen, after a brief flirtation with one of the Wilcox sons, has developed an antipathy for the family; Margaret, however, forms a brief but intense friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, which is cut short by the older woman's death. When her family discovers a scrap of paper requesting that Henry give their home, Howards End, to Margaret, it precipitates a spiritual crisis among them that will take years to resolve.


Forster's 1910 novel begins as a collection of seemingly unrelated events--Helen's impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox; a chance meeting between the Schlegel sisters and an impoverished clerk named Leonard Bast at a concert; a casual conversation between the sisters and Henry Wilcox in London one night. But as it moves along, these disparate threads gradually knit into a tightly woven fabric of tragic misunderstandings, impulsive actions, and irreparable consequences, and, eventually, connection. Though set in the early years of the 20th century, Howards End seems even more suited to our own fragmented era of e-mails and anger. For readers living in such an age, the exhortation to "only connect" resonates ever more profoundly.

　　《霍华德庄园》围绕家产继承权和女主人公的婚姻铺叙了一个传统的“故事”。但是，在更重要的层面上，这是一部有关英国以及人类文明的寓言。
　　 小说象征结构的中心是一所被称为“霍华德庄园”的房子。它是威尔考克斯太太露丝从娘家继承的遗产，原是农场，后因经营不善和社会变迁，土地渐渐被变卖，成了一处别业。那是一幢绿树掩映的老屋，有着土质肥沃、果木葱郁的花园以及远处的牧场和松林。它与书中主要女性人物密切关联，代表着与传统农业相联系、根植于家乡土地并与大自然和谐共处的生存方式，也代表着古老英国的土地资产和精神传统。

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