COUSIN BETTY By Honore De Balzac 【貝姨】(傅雷)

“Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.”
―from COUSIN BETTE by Honoré de Balzac

A hypnotic story of hatred, revenge and catastrophe in which Cousin Bette exacts a terrible price from the rich relations who use and humiliate her. This book portrays the world of post-Napoleonic France, where commercial greed and sexual debauchery are rampant among a demoralized ruling class. Along with his wide descriptive range and the astute understanding of society for which he is celebrated, Balzac had immense psychological penetration. All these qualities are fully evident in his story of the ferocious dissembler Cousin Bette and the dense nineteenth-century Parisian milieu in which she plots a terrible revenge on her patronizing relatives. Introduction by Michael Tilby; Translation by James Waring. READ an excerpt here: http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/cousin-bette-by-honore…/#

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COUSIN BETTY
By Honore De Balzac
Translated by James Waring

出處末章：

Of course, everybody was quite satisfied and easy. The young people and
the Baroness lauded the model father to the skies, forgetting the death
of the two uncles. Life cannot go on without much forgetting!

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1749/1749-0.txt

沒有遺忘，人生是過不下去的！ (傅雷【貝姨】安徽文藝，p.558)

兩英譯本都有"大量(much/a great deal)遺忘"，傅雷的【貝姨】缺此形容詞。

傅雷末章有幾處"雙關語"，此英文本從缺。

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