厄舍府的崩塌

出版时间：2005-3-1  出版社：解放军文艺出版社  作者：爱伦·坡  页数：246  译者：刘象愚  
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　　《厄舍府的崩塌》收入爱伦·坡《厄舍府的崩塌》等15部短篇小说。爱伦·坡是美国著名的诗人、小说家和批评家，在世界文学史上占有重要地位，是恐怖小说、科幻小说、侦探小说的鼻祖，其作品对二十世纪西方文学产生重要影响。坡最有影响的是恐怖小说，如《厄舍府的崩塌》、《黑猫》、《“红死病”的化装舞会》，这些小说往往有离奇的情节、神秘怪诞的故事、浓重的恐怖气氛；《莱吉亚》、《陷阱与钟摆》，则更加侧重内心恐怖力量；《毛格街血案》、《失窃的信》，被公认为侦探小说的开山之作；《威廉·威尔逊》、《被用光的人》，作品中包含的现代

作者简介

作者：（美国）爱伦·坡（Poe Edgar Allan）  译者：刘象愚

书籍目录

译序瓶中手稿莱吉亚被用光的人厄舍府的崩塌威廉·威尔逊人群中的人毛格街血案卷入大旋涡椭圆形画像红死病的化装舞会陷阱与钟摆泄密的心金甲虫黑猫失窃的信

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•   很喜欢侦探推理方面的书，因为在紧张的情节中可以提高自己的逻辑思维能力。这本书综合了爱伦坡的经典文章，虽然在文章中的时代与我们有一定的距离，但在曲折的情节中我们依然可以看到最睿智的思维。
•   allan poe的短篇有诗的结构和诗人的意境，翻译方面也尽量做到了这一点，给人干净传神的感觉，功底深厚，符合poe的诗歌理论，‘文章最好能够一口气读下来’，这本书即使是汉语也显然没有破坏它。
•   　　From the eighteenth century to nowadays, Gothic literature has been spread enormously quickly and popular. Edgar Allen Poe definitely is one of the most famous American author with his Gothic fiction. His short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher", is one of his well-known works of mystery and horror. At the beginning of the story, the narrator receives a letter from his old friend, Roderick Usher, who is inviting the narrator to visit him at his house. Unfortunately, on the evening the narrator arrives at the "House of Usher", Roderick's twin sister lady Madeline passes away. On a dark and stormy night, several evenings later, lady Madeline comes back to life and kills her twin brother. On the surface of this story, it seems like a supernatural gothic story. In fact, it is about human psychology. The House of Usher is frame of human mind. There are three characters in this house, the narrator, Roderick Usher, and Madeline Usher, they are the metaphors to the three elements of personality: ego, superego, and id.
  　　
  　　The narrator represents the ego in this story. Freud’s theory defines the ego as” the logical, rational, largely conscious system of personality” (Wood, G-6). When Roderick overreacts to the sight of the storm, the narrator describes the lightning scientifically as a common phenomena by saying “these appearances, which bewilder you, are merely electrical phenomena not uncommon” (Poe). Another example of the narrator rationalizing the situation would be during the reading of the “Mad Trist” to Roderick. As the narrator is reading the story “there came the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described”, however, “(the narrator) at once concluded that his excited fancy had deceived him” (Poe). These examples demonstrate the logical and practical thinking of the narrator as the ego.
  　　
  　　The proprietor of the house, Roderick Usher, being the superego, is defined by Freud as being “the moral system of the personality” (Wood, G-16). “The stem of the Usher race, all time-honoured as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain”, this implies the Usher family maintained incestuous relationships. This may have led to feelings of guilt in Roderick that could have let to him murdering his sister as the narrator describes seeing “blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame” (Poe). This struggle points to foul play that was not mentioned by Roderick.
  　　
  　　As Freud describes the id as being “the unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle”, this describes the character of lady Madeline (Wood, G-8). Throughout the entire story, she is seen as primal. She never speaks, and is just seen shambling about the mansion. After coming back from the dead, she follows her basic instincts “fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse” (Poe). Her instincts led her back to the incestuous relationship she had with her brother.
  　　
  　　The characters from the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” fit well into Freud’s system of the psyche. Each character represents the various aspects of the human mind that include the ego, superego and id. Edgar Allan Poe character development fits into this scheme of how Freud interpreted the human mind as these characters each represent an aspect related to this particular theory of psychology. With the background of incest and the gothic setting, these aspects fall into place as literary devices, illustrating the characters and defining them.
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　
  　　Works Cited:
  　　Poe, Edgar. "The Fall of the House of Usher." PoeStories. N.p.. Web. 19 Sep 2013. <http://poestories.com/read/houseofusher>.
  　　
  　　Wood, Samuel. Mastering the World of Psychology. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson Education, 2005. G-6, G-16, G-8. Print.
  　　
•   　　收了爱伦坡的一些著名作品，基本可以代表其作为恐怖小说、科幻小说、侦探小说的鼻祖。
  　　
  　　个人觉得，具有强烈风格特征的是他的恐怖小说。喜欢爱伦坡的人也许会很喜欢。但我不喜欢，这是由我本人心理上不能承受恐怖所决定的。
  　　
  　　然而，客观地说，爱伦坡对于恐怖气息的渲染和极端心理的刻画非常到位，随便拿一篇都具有强烈的画面感，无须多加工就是很好的恐怖电影的素材。这些恐怖小说的情节性并不强，感觉上就是作家倾其之力将心里所营造和感受的恐怖意象通过笔端传递给读者。
  　　
  　　据说爱伦坡对波德莱尔有很大影响。这也有些可以理解了。
•   情节性哪里不强了 只是你没有看懂那么多隐喻罢了....
•   精致的短篇不需要繁复的情节，个人认为，爱伦坡小说的情节节奏性、深邃的恐怖渲染以及自我挑战式心理的刻画糅合的十分出色，丝毫没有让人感到乏味的地方....十分欣赏。