《德伯家的苔丝》是我年轻时最喜爱的作品之一。严格地说,小说只写了三个人物,一个天使,克莱尔;一个魔鬼,没落的公子哥德伯维尔;在天使与魔鬼之间,夹杂着一个美丽却又无知的女子,苔丝。这个构架足以吸引人了,它拥有了小说的一切可能。我们可以把《德伯家的苔丝》理解成英国版的或者说资产阶级版的《白毛女》:克莱尔、德伯维尔、苔丝就是大春、黄世仁和喜儿。故事的脉络似乎只能是这样:喜儿爱恋着大春,但黄世仁霸占了喜儿,大春出走(参军),喜儿变成了 Tess of the Durberty was one of my favorite works of my youth. Strictly speaking, the novel only wrote three characters, an angel, Claire; a devil, the fallen son of Gothenburg; between the angels and the devil, a beautiful but ignorant woman, Tess. This framework is attractive enough, it has all the possibilities of the novel. We can interpret “Tess of the T’Eber” as a British version or a bourgeois “white-haired woman”: Claire, Dwberville, and Tess of Spring, Huang Shiren and Xi’er. The context of the story seems to only be like this: Xi’er loves spring, but Huang Shiren occupy Xi’er, spring out (join the army), Xi’er into