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约翰·高尔斯华绥約翰·高爾斯華綏-重要作品
高爾斯華綏的重要作品有：長篇小說三部麯《福爾賽世傢》（由《有産業的人》1906、《騎虎》1920和《出租》1821組成）、三部麯《現代喜劇》（由《白猿》1926、《銀匙》1926和《天鵝之歌》1928組成）、三部麯《尾聲》（《女侍》1931、《開花的荒野》1932和《河那邊》1933組成），以及劇本《銀匣》（1936）、《鬥爭》（1909）、《群衆》（1914）和《逃跑》（1926）等。
高爾斯華綏的作品以十九世紀後期和二十世紀初期的英國社會為背景，描寫了英國資産階級的社會和家庭生活，以及盛極而衰的歷史。他的作品語言簡煉，形象生動，諷刺辛辣。
《有産業的人》（1906）是高爾斯華綏的《福爾賽世傢》三部麯中的第一部。書中所描寫的福爾賽世傢正處於由興盛到衰落的轉折時期。福爾賽一傢是金融傢、交易所經紀人、擁有房地産或者股票的資産階級，他們對立身處世、待人接物，對衣食住行、家庭關係，對殖民地、不列顛帝國等都形成了本質上相同的看法，這就是書中所講的“福爾賽精神”，它的主要特徵是“緊抓住財産不放，不管是老婆，還是房子，還是金錢，還是名譽”。
《有産業的人》中的主人公索米斯被作者稱為“福爾賽軍隊的先鋒”。他把一切東西都當作商品、當作資本，每看見一幅名畫、一件古玩，總要想到這在拍賣行裏能拍賣上多少錢；他買地造屋，首先考慮的是地價會不會上漲，房子將來能不能賣上高價。在對待妻子伊琳的態度上，更加明顯地暴露了這種觀念。他看中了美女伊琳，想占為己有，便用金錢收買了伊琳的後母，達到了目的。但他並沒有把伊琳看作有獨立人格的人，衹是象收藏名畫一樣占有她，自己則由於"在全倫敦人面前感到是這個尤物的占有者“而沾沾自喜，自覺身價百倍”。婚後，他象保護自已的財産一樣緊盯着她，不讓她與別人接觸。當他發現伊琳不愛他、甚至恨他時，他認為這簡直是違反了一切法律中最基本的規定--財産法，便想在鄉下造一所別墅把她禁錮起來。當伊琳愛上建築師波辛尼以後，他堅决不同意離婚，而用蠻橫手段“行使了丈夫的權力”，還卑鄙地利用建築別墅的財務糾紛嚮法院控告波辛尼，造成了波辛尼走投無路、神志恍惚、被馬車撞死的悲劇。小說對於福爾賽一傢表面上一團和氣、你來我往，骨子裏勾心鬥角、互相猜忌、幸災樂禍的自私心理，也作了細緻的揭露。
小說對資産者作了犀利的諷刺，是最能體現高爾斯華綏進步思想和藝術手法的現實主義傑作。但它也反映了作者的思想局限：描寫的生活圈子過於狹隘，局限於資産階級中上層的家庭、婚姻、道德領域，而沒有展現出那一時代廣阔的社會風貌；在揭露和諷刺"福爾賽精神"的同時，卻又對福爾賽傢族某些重要成員如老喬裏恩等人作了理想化的描寫。
約翰·高爾斯華綏-創作風格
約翰·高爾斯華綏（1867—1933）是英國二十世紀繼承批判現實主義的代表作傢。父親是倫敦的著名律師。一八九九年高爾斯華綏在牛津大學法律係畢業，但對律師業務不感興趣，而專心從事文學寫作。他早期以約翰·辛約翰的筆名寫了幾部小說，但沒有引起人們註意。《島國的法利賽人》是他用真名發表的一部比較成熟的長篇小說。小說的主人公理查·謝爾頓的經歷有點和作者相似，大學畢業後不願當律師，到處遊歷。他結識了一個外籍青年費朗德；費朗德促使他以新的眼光來觀察自己久已熟悉的生活環境，後來他又見識了倫敦貧民窟窮人的生活情景，從而認識到法利賽人的後裔——資産階級的虛偽、欺詐、腐朽本質。在故事末尾，謝爾頓發現和自己訂婚的姑娘也屬於法利賽人之類的家庭，並在生活的基本問題上與自己的重大分歧，於是毅然和她解約。
《有産業的人》（1906）描寫以福爾賽傢族為代表的英國中上層階級。他們既不是工業傢，又不是開店的，而是隨着英國工業發展和帝國主義日益強大而崛起的那些擁有房地産和有價證券的所謂有産業的人。福爾賽傢族成員的主要特徵是財産意識；他們占有的對象不僅包括金錢、房地産、公債、股票、藝術品等，也包括自己的妻子。這部書出版後不但風行一時，並且奠定了高爾斯華綏在英國文學界的地位。《莊園》（1907）描寫地主階級的狹隘趣味。《友愛》（1909）抒寫資産階級知識分子的極端個人主義，曾經被高爾基譽為以巨匠的手腕寫成的作品。
高爾斯華綏不僅是個傑出的小說傢，也是著名的戲劇作傢。他的劇本如《銀匣》（1909），《鬥爭》（1909），《正義》（1910），在我國都早已有了譯本。在高爾斯華綏的許多小說中，篇幅最為巨大，也最為世人矚目的，當以《有産業的人》為開端的許多獨立而又有連續性的長篇小說。這些以《有産業的人》（1906）、《騎虎》（1920）和《出租》（1921）以及兩個插麯《殘夏》和《覺醒》合為第一個三部麯《福爾賽世傢》；以《白猿》（1 高爾斯華綏散文集924）、《銀匙》（1926）和《天鵝之歌》（1928）合為第二個三部麯《現代喜劇》；以《女侍》（1931）、《開花的荒野》（1932）和《過河》（1933，死後由其夫人整理出版）合為第三個三部麯《尾聲》。除了這九大部外，還出版了兩部有關福爾賽傢族的短篇小說集。這些是高爾斯華綏一生創作精力之所萃，也是我們估計他的文學造詣應當着重考慮的作品。從《有産業的人》起到《過河》為止，中間相隔二十六、七年的時間。在這段漫長的歲月裏，不論英國國內形勢，或者世界形勢，都發生了巨大變化：英波戰爭，第一次世界大戰，十月革命，英國工黨的逐漸壯大和行將執政等等，這一切不能不對高爾斯華綏的作品産生程度不同的影響。從總的趨嚮看，他在《現代喜劇》和《尾聲》中所表現的諷刺力量要比《福爾賽世傢》來得差，而就《福爾賽世傢》三部麯來說，《騎虎》和《出租》在這方面又稍遜於《有産業的人》。但在完成這個三部麯的總序裏，作者卻承認這個中上層階級連同其它剝削階級全將進入無聲息狀態，而人們衹能在文學的歷史博物館中見到他們，這卻是他在《有産業的人》中所沒有明白表示過的。
約翰·高爾斯華綏-選集
De los Cuatro Vientos, 1897 年(作為約翰・Sinjohn)
高爾斯華綏散文集Jocelyn, 1898 年(作為約翰・Sinjohn)
別墅Rubein, 1900 年(作為約翰・Sinjohn)
德文郡的一個人, 1901 年(作為約翰・Sinjohn)
海島Pharisees, 1904 年
銀色箱子, 1906 年
Forsyte 英雄傳奇, 1906-21
道具員, 1906 年
在檔案館, 1920 年
喚醒, 1920 年
讓, 1921 年
鄉間別墅, 1907 年
一個評論, 1908 年
聯誼會, 1909 年
銀色箱子, 1909 年
辯解為戲劇審查, 1909 年
衝突, 1909 年
聯誼會, 1909 年
喜悅, 1909 年
正義, 1910 年
五顔六色, 1910 年
處罰的精神, 1910 年
馬在礦, 1910 年
Patrician, 1911 年
高爾斯華綏散文集小的夢想, 1911 年
鴿子, 1912 年
長子, 1912 年
心情、歌麯, 和Doggerels, 1912 年
為野獸愛, 1912 年
寧靜旅店, 1912
黑暗的花, 1913 年
逃亡者, 1913 年
暴民, 1914 年
Freelands, 1915 年
小人, 1915 年
位的愛, 1915 年
捆, 1916 年
外面, 1917 年
五個傳說, 1918 年
聖徒的進展, 1919 年
地址在美國, 1912 年
基礎, 1920 年
在檔案館, 1920 年
喚醒, 1920 年
皮膚比賽, 1920 年
讓, 1920 年
有傢室的人, 1922 年
小人, 1922 年
有産者忠誠, 1922 年
窗口, 1922 年
捕獲, 1923 年
Abracadabra, 1924 年
森林, 1924 年
老英語, 1924 年
展示, 1925 年
逃命, 1926 年
詩歌新和老, 1926 年
城堡在西班牙, 1927 年
一個現代喜劇, 1924-1928
白色猴子, 1924 年
銀色匙子, 1926 年
天鵝歌麯, 1928 年
二支Forsyte 插麯, 1927 年
Manaton 編輯, 1923-26 (匯集, 30 vols 。)
Exiled, 1929 年
屋頂, 1929 年
在Forsyte 變動, 1930 年
關於康列得的二篇雜文, 1930 年
Soames 和旗子, 1930 年
字符的創作在文學裏, 1931 年( Romanes 演講 為1931) 。
傭人在等待, 1931 年
約翰·高爾斯華綏四十首詩, 1932 年
開花的原野, 1932 年
在河, 1933 年
Galsworthy 自傳體信件: 一封書信與坦率的哈裏斯, 1933 年
樹叢編輯, 1927-34 (匯集, 27 Vols 。)
被收集的詩, 1934 年
結尾的章節, 1934 年(三部麯)
猛擊和去, 1935 年
生活和信件, 1935 年
Wintergarden, 1935 年
Forsytes, Pendyces 和其他人, 1935 年
結尾的章節, 1935 年
選擇的短篇小說, 1935 年
瞥見和反射, 1937 年
給Leon獅子的Galsworthy 的信件, 1968 年
從約翰・的信件Galsworthy 1900-1932, 1970 年
John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Hill in Surrey, England into an established wealthy family, the son of John and Blanche Bailey (née Bartleet) Galsworthy. His large Kingston upon Thames estate is now the site of three schools: Marymount International, Rokeby Preparatory School and Holy Cross. He attended Harrow and New College, Oxford, training as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1890. However, he was not keen to begin practising law and instead travelled abroad to look after the family's shipping business interests. During these travels he met Joseph Conrad, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, Australia, and the two future novelists became close friends. In 1895 Galsworthy began an affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper (1864–1956), the wife of Major Arthur Galsworthy, one of his cousins. After her divorce ten years later, the pair married on the 23 September 1905, and stayed together until his death in 1933. Prior to their marriage they stayed clandestinely in a farmhouse called Wingstone in the village of Manaton on Dartmoor, Devon. From 1908 he took out a long lease on part of the building and made it their regular second home until 1923.
From the Four Winds, a collection of short stories, was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897. These, and several subsequent works, were published under the pen name John Sinjohn and it would not be until The Island Pharisees (1904) that he would begin publishing under his own name, probably owing to the death of his father. His first play, The Silver Box (1906), became a success and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy. Although he continued writing both plays and novels it was as a playwright that he was mainly appreciated for at the time. Along with those of other writers of the time, such as George Bernard Shaw, his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best known being Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920).
He is now far better known for his novels and particularly The Forsyte Saga, his trilogy about the eponymous family and connected lives. These books, as with many of his other works, dealt with class, and in particular upper-middle class lives. Although sympathetic to his characters he highlights their insular, snobbish and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceding literature of Victorian England. The depiction of a woman in an unhappy marriage furnishes another recurring theme in his work. The character of Irene in The Forsyte Saga is drawn from Ada Pearson even though her previous marriage was not as miserable as that of Irene.
Bury House, Galsworthy's West Sussex home.His work is often less convincing when it deals with the changing face of wider British society and how it affects people of the lower social classes. Through his writings he campaigned for a variety of causes including prison reform, women's rights, animal welfare and the opposition of censorship. During World War I he worked in a hospital in France as an orderly after being passed over for military service. He was elected as the first president of the International PEN literary club in 1921, was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929—after earlier turning down a knighthood—and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932. He was too ill to attend the Nobel awards ceremony, and died six weeks later.
John Galsworthy lived for the final seven years of his life at Bury in West Sussex. He died from a brain tumour at his London home, Grove Lodge, Hampstead. In accordance with his will he was cremated at Woking with his ashes then being scattered over the South Downs from an aeroplane, but there are also memorials in Highgate 'New' Cemetery and in the cloisters of New College, Oxford (the latter cut and placed in the cloisters by Eric Gill). The popularity of his fiction waned quickly after his death but the hugely successful adaptation of The Forsyte Saga in 1967 renewed interest in his work.
A number of John Galsworthy's letters and papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.
In 2007, Kingston University, London opened a new building named in recognition of his local birth.
Adaptation
The Forsyte Saga has been filmed several times:
That Forsyte Woman (1949), dir. by Compton Bennett, an MGM adaptation in which Errol Flynn played a rare villainous role as Soames.
BBC television drama (1967), dir. by James Cellan Jones, David Giles, starring Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth More, Susan Hampshire, Joseph O'Conor, adaptor Lennox Philips and others, 26 parts
Granada television drama (2002), dir. by Christopher Menaul, starring Gina McKee, Damian Lewis, Rupert Graves, Corin Redgrave, 13 parts.
The Skin Game was adapted and directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1931. It starred C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden.
Escape was filmed in 1930 and 1948. The latter was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay was by Philip Dunne.
One More River (a film version of Galsworthy's Over the River) was filmed by James Whale in 1934. The film starred Frank Lawton, Colin Clive (one of Whale's most frequently used actors), and Diana Wynyard. It also featured Mrs. Patrick Campbell in a rare sound film appearance.
The First and the Last, a short play, was adapted as 21 Days, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.
Selected work
From The Four Winds, 1897 (as John Sinjohn)
Jocelyn, 1898 (as John Sinjohn)
Villa Rubein, 1900 (as John Sinjohn)
A Man Of Devon, 1901 (as John Sinjohn)
The Island Pharisees, 1904
The Silver Box, 1906 (his first play)
The Forsyte Saga, 1906–21, 1922
The Man Of Property, 1906
(interlude) Indian Summer of a Forsyte, 1918
In Chancery, 1920
(interlude) Awakening, 1920
To Let, 1921
The Country House, 1907
A Commentary, 1908
Fraternity, 1909
A Justification For The Censorship Of Plays, 1909
Strife, 1909
Fraternity, 1909
Joy, 1909
Justice, 1910
A Motley, 1910
The Spirit Of Punishment, 1910
Horses In Mines, 1910
The Patrician, 1911
The Little Dream, 1911
The Pigeon, 1912
The Eldest Son, 1912
Moods, Songs, And Doggerels, 1912
For Love Of Beasts, 1912
The Inn Of Tranquillity, 1912
The Dark Flower, 1913
The Fugitive, 1913
The Mob, 1914
The Freelands, 1915
The Little Man, 1915
A Bit's Love, 1915
A Sheaf, 1916
The Apple Tree, 1916
Beyond, 1917
Five Tales, 1918
Saint's Progress, 1919
Addresses In America, 1912
The Foundations, 1920
In Chancery, 1920
Awakening, 1920
The Skin Game, 1920
To Let, 1920
A Family Man, 1922
The Little Man, 1922
Loyalties, 1922
Windows, 1922
Captures, 1923
Abracadabra, 1924
The Forest, 1924
Old English, 1924
The Show, 1925
Escape, 1926
Verses New And Old, 1926
Castles In Spain, 1927
A Modern Comedy, 1924–1928, 1929
The White Monkey, 1924
(Interlude) a Silent Wooing, 1927
The Silver Spoon, 1926
(Interlude) Passers By, 1927
Swan Song, 1928
Two Forsyte Interludes, 1927
The Manaton Edition, 1923–26 (collection, 30 vols.)
Exiled, 1929
The Roof, 1929
On Forsyte 'Change, 1930
Two Essays On Conrad, 1930
Soames And The Flag, 1930
The Creation Of Character In Literature, 1931 (The Romanes Lecture for 1931).
Maid In Waiting, 1931
Forty Poems, 1932
Flowering Wilderness, 1932
Over the River, 1933
Autobiographical Letters Of Galsworthy: A Correspondence With Frank Harris, 1933
The Grove Edition, 1927–34 (collection, 27 Vols.)
Collected Poems, 1934
End Of the Chapter, 1931–1933, 1934 (posthumously)
Maid In Waiting, 1931
Flowering Wilderness, 1932
One More River, 1933 (originally the English edition was called Over the River)
Punch And Go, 1935
The Life And Letters, 1935
The Winter Garden, 1935
Forsytes, Pendyces And Others, 1935
Selected Short Stories, 1935
Glimpses And Reflections, 1937
Galsworthy's Letters To Leon Lion, 1968
Letters From John Galsworthy 1900–1932, 1970