第21章 小妖精和杂货商 The Goblin and the Huckster (第1/9页)

《小妖精和杂货商》，1853

the Goblin and the huckster, 1853

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尽管小妖精和杂货商都出现在标题中，但小妖精才是这个故事真正的主角。

despite the fact that both goblin and grocer appear in the title, the goblin is the real hero of the tale.

奇怪的是，安徒生安排了三个角色，但没有把学生 \/ 诗人放在标题里。

oddly, Andersen has a cast of three but does not include the student\/poet in the title.

小妖精，一个幻想中的生物，架起了学生充满诗意幻想的世界和杂货商充满商业与商品的世界之间的桥梁。

the goblin, a creature of fantasy, bridges the student’s world of poetic visions and the grocer’s world of merce and modities.

他实现了从杂货商那里获得物质支持（住所和一碗粥）以及从诗人那里获得精神滋养（从书页中浮现的幻想）的梦想。

he lives out the dream of receiving material sustenance from the grocer (housing and a bowl of porridge) and spiritual nourishment from the poet (the visions that emerge from the pages of books).

《小妖精和杂货商》被收录在安德鲁?朗于 19 世纪末出版的着名儿童童话系列书籍中，至今仍在印刷。

“the Goblin and the Grocer” was included in Andrew Lang’s famous fairy-tale series of books for children published at the end of the nineteenth century and still in print today.

然而，它并没有获得安徒生其他故事那样的经典地位，部分原因是它与其说是一个给孩子的童话故事，不如说是一个给成年人的关于阅读的寓言。

And yet it has not attained the canonical status of other tales by Andersen, in part because it is less a fairy tale for children than an allegory of reading for adults.

这个故事写于 1849 年，大约在安徒生的短篇小说越来越多地涉及艺术的时候，它赞美了书页上的文字将自身转化为闪闪发光的美丽幻想的力量，也颂扬了见证阅读行为的乐趣。

the story, written in 1849, around the time that Andersen’s short stories were being increasingly