第24章 牙疼姨妈 Aunty Toothache (第1/22页)

《牙疼姨妈》，1872

Aunty toothache, 1872

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一个关于诗歌失败的故事，《牙疼姨妈》以肯定诗歌的力量结尾。

A story about the failures of poetry, “Auntie toothache” ends by validating the power of poetry.

“一切最终都进了垃圾桶。” 这个故事着名的结尾是这样说的，而垃圾桶正是故事《牙疼姨妈》被发现的地方，但随后它又被复活、流传、复述并印刷出来，以一种确保其持久力量的方式。

“Everything ends up in the trash,” the story famously ends, and the trash is precisely the place where the story “Auntie toothache” is found, but then revived, circulated, retold, and put into print in a way that assures its power to endure.

一位评论家将《牙疼姨妈》归类为 “欢快的” 文本，因为在其中，“诗意的维度越来越多地胜出、渗透并看透可怕的现象和心理混乱”。

one critic has classified “Auntie toothache” as a “euphoric” text, for in it, “the poetical dimension more and more wins over, permeates and sees through the terrible phenomenal and psychological mess”.

可以肯定的是，诗歌和痛苦是秘密的同谋，都是缺失和衰败的标志，但在这个故事中，诗歌通过代表学生诗人的生活和作品而赢得了胜利，并确保想象力将战胜痛苦。

to be sure, poetry and pain are secret acplices, both signs of absence and decay, but in this story poetry wins the day by representing the life and writings of the student-poet and assuring that imagination will triumph over pain.

《牙疼姨妈》写于 1872 年，那一年安徒生拔掉了他最后一颗牙齿。

“Auntie toothache” was written in 1872, the year Andersen had his last remaining tooth extracted.

他加入了从陀思妥耶夫斯基和爱伦?坡到托马斯?曼和马丁?艾米斯等一系列作家的行列，这些作家都写过关于牙疼的诗歌，将痛苦和艺术结合起来，也利用了被称为与牙齿相关的 “力量、美丽和痛苦” 的联系。

he joins a pantheon of writers ranging from dostoevsky and poe to thomas mann and martin Amis who have wri