概述

英国小说家理查逊的长篇书信体小说.写于１７４７—１７４８年.克拉丽莎是个有钱人家的女儿，冷漠无情的父母强迫她嫁给俗不可耐的索尔姆斯，她执意不从离家出走，后落入放荡情人洛夫莱斯的圈套，与他同居，遭受他的奸污，洛夫莱斯还把克拉丽莎带到坏女人辛克莱太太家里，要她权充自己的妻室.洛夫莱斯多次对克拉丽莎施加非礼，使克拉丽莎被迫从辛克莱太太家逃了出来.后又遭坏女人辛克莱太太诬告而下监狱，最后身心交瘁地离开了人世.她的表哥莫登上校同洛夫莱斯决斗，将他杀死，为克拉丽莎报了仇.作品抨击了贵族的利己主义，对妇女在婚姻问题上的遭遇寄予了深切的同情.在艺术上，作品是理查逊倡导的书信体小说的典范.整部小说均由一封封伤感多情的书信组成.作者用散文的笔调，将人物之间的复杂关系，用书信形式一一展现出来.同时，作者还采用“信中信”的手法，在人物的信件中，又插进别人的书信，以此来拓展艺术的表现领域，其影响甚为深远. British novelist Richardson's lengthy epistolary novel. Was written in 1747-1748 years. Clarissa is the daughter of a wealthy family, indifference of parents forced her to marry vulgar Solms, she would not listen run away from home after falling into the trap of debauchery lover Lovelace, live with him and subjected him to rape, Lovelace also Clarissa Sinclair brought his wife home, a bad woman, asked her the right to charge their own wife. Lovelace repeatedly indecently assaulted on the Clarissa imposed, so that his wife Clarissa Sinclair family was forced to escape. Sinclair, after his wife falsely accused will again be a bad woman down the prison, finally devastated left the dead. Her cousin, Colonel Morden duel with Lovelace, will kill him, for Clarissa avenged. works attacked the aristocratic self-interest, the issue of women in marriage, the experience placed deep sympathy. in the art, the work is Richardson's epistolary novels advocate a model. the whole sad sentimental novel by a closed form letters. authors prose style to be the complex relationships between the characters, using letters the form of 11 unfolded. At the same time, the author also uses a "letter of CITIC" approach, in the character's letter, another inserted into other people's letters, in order to expand the field of artistic expression, its impact has been tremendous.

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