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开 本: 大32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9787511715906
托马斯·萨德本，一个穷苦白人，凭借种种巧取豪夺的手段在杰佛生镇建起种植园萨德百里地，生下儿子亨利和女儿朱迪思；此前，萨德本曾与一个有黑人血统的女人结婚，育有一子查尔斯。朱迪思与这个同父异母的哥哥发生恋情；为了防止乱伦悲剧的发生，亨利只好亲手杀死了查尔斯。经过南北战争困难的岁月，科德菲尔德家族劫后余生的罗莎姨妈、康普生家族年轻一代昆丁及昆丁的同窗施里夫作。为线索人物，以对话形式渐次推演出托马斯·萨德本发家乃至败亡的始末根由。
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Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names wereinterchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood was full of them;his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeatednames; he was not a being， an entity， he was a commonwealth. He wasa barrack filled with stubborn back looking ghosts stillrecovering， even forty-three years afterward， from the fever whichhad cured the disease， waking from the fevef without even knowingthat it had been the fever itself which they had fought against andnot the sickness， looking with stubborn recalcitrance backwardbeyond the fever and into the disease with actual regret， weak fromthe fever yet free of the disease and not even aware that thefreedom was that of impotence.
（”But why tell me about it? he said to his father that evening，when he returned home， after she had dismissed him at last with hispromise to return for her in the buggy; “Why tell me about it? Whatis it to me that the land of the earth or whatever it was got tiredof him at last and turned and destroyed him? What if it did destroyher family too? It’s going to turn and destroy us all some daywhether our name happens to be Sutpen or Cold field or not.
’Ah，” Mr. Comp son said. “Years ago we in the South made ourwomen into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies intoghosts. So what else can we do， being gentlemen， but listen to thembeing ghosts? Then he said， “Do you want to know the real reasonwhy she chose you?”
They were sitting on the gallery after supper， waiting for thetime Miss Cold field had set for Quentin to call for her. “It’sbecause she will need someone to go with her-a man， a gentleman，yet one still young enough to do what she wants， do it the way shewants it done. And she chose you because your grandfather was thenearest thing to a friend Sutpen ever had in this county， and sheprobably believes that Sutpen may have told your grandfathersomething about himself and her， about that engagement which didnot engage， that troth which failed to plight. Might even have toldyour grandfather the reason why at the last she refused to marryhim. -And that your grandfather might have told me and I might havetold you. And so， in a sense， the affair， no matter what happensout there tonight， will still be in the family; the skeleton （if itbe a selector still in the closet. She may believe that if ithadn’t been for your grandfather’s friendship， Sutpen could neverhave got a foothold here， and that if he had not got that foothold，he could not have married Ellen. So maybe she considers you partlyresponsible through heredity for what happened to her and herfamily through him.”）
Whatever her reason for choosing him， whether it was that or not，the getting to it， Quentin thought， was taking a long time.Meanwhile， as though in inverse ratio to the vanishing voice， theinvoked ghost of the man whom she could neither forgive nor revengeherself upon began to assume a quality almost of soliditypermanence. Itself circumambient and enclosed by its efHuvium ofhell， its aura of unregeneration， it mused （mused， thought， seemedto possess sentience， as if， though dispossessed of the peace-whowas impervious anyhow to fatigue-which she declined to give it， itwas still irrevocably outside the scope of her hurt or harm） withthat quality peaceful and now harmless and not even veryattentive-the ogre-shape which， as Miss Cold field’s voice went on，resolved out of itself before Quentin’s eyes the two half-ogrechildren， the three of them forming a shadowy background for thefourth one.
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