第26章 巨大的悲痛 A Great Grief (第1/6页)

《巨大的悲痛》，1853 年

A Great Grief (heartache), 1853

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这个故事的瑰宝囊括了安徒生作品中的许多主要主题，带我们从死亡和存在焦虑走向苦难和社会悲痛。它可以被看作是诗歌的缩影。

this gem of a story encapsulates many of the major themes in Andersen’s works, taking us from death and existential anxiety to suffering and social grief. It can be seen as a poetics in a nutshell.

它的起源是 1847 年 5 月 26 日的一篇日记，在其中安徒生描述了 “第一部分” 的事件，然后转向描述一个乞丐，一个可怜的人物，既引起同情又引起恐惧：“有人在敲门。一个可怕的流浪汉设法找到了我的房间。我给了他 24 便士。‘你不是在欧登塞附近出生的吗？’他问。我把他弄出去了，但担心他可能会躲起来，在深夜回来偷窃。”

Its origins lie in a diary entry of may 26, 1847, in which Andersen described the incidents of “part one,” then turned to the description of a beggar, an abject figure who arouses both empathy and fear: “there was somebody knocking at the door. A dreadful tramp had managed to find my room. I gave him 24 pennies. ‘were you not born in the neighborhood of odense?’ he asked. I got him out but feared he might hide and return in the dead of night to steal”.

与乞丐相反，《巨大的悲痛》中的女孩引起了同情。从上方和远处看，她通过结合美丽、年轻、贫穷和苦难引起了审美愉悦。

In contrast to the beggar, the girl in “heartache” arouses empathy. Seen from above and at a distance, she elicits aesthetic pleasure by bining beauty, youth, poverty, and suffering.

尽管叙述者坚持认为前奏是不必要的，但这个故事实际上需要两个部分，一个部分将叙述者呈现为一个 “无情” 的人物，无法与寡妇来卖她的股份的更深层原因产生联系，另一个部分将叙述者呈现为同样 “无情”，因为他无法采取行动缓解女孩的 “心痛”。

despite the narrator’s insistence that the prelude is unnecessary, the story in fact needs both parts, with one introducing the narrator as a