shǒuyè>> wénxué>> 推理侦探>> zhān · kǎi 'ēn James Mallahan Cain   měi guó United States   lěng zhàn zhōng de měi guó   (1892niánqīyuè1rì1977niánshíyuè27rì)
yóuchāi zǒng qiāo liǎng mén The Postman Always Rings Twice
   duì liàn rén shì móu shā 'ài men de zhàng jiēguǒ rán shì tiān xún huánbào yìng shuǎngzhè běn shū chū wèn shì shícéng yīn zuò zhě jīng pàn dào de xiǎng luò de wén yǐn zhēng fàn zuì zhě wéi zhù rén gōng xiōng shǒu zuò rén chēng shù shì jiǎoràng zhě zài gǎn tóng shēn shòu zhōng jiàn jiàn xiōng shǒu chǎng zhì zhè zhǒng qiǎo zài jīn tiān suí chù jiànzài dāng shí què zhuóshí shì chuàng zuò zhě zhān kǎi yīn shì fēng jìn hǎi míng wēi de měi guó wén xué shī de zhè běn dài biǎo zuò zài lán dēng shū 20 shì bǎi yīng wén xiǎo shuō shàng pái míng 98 wèishèn zhì yǐng xiǎng liǎo hòu lái yīn xiě chū wài rénér yáng míng wén tán de nuò bèi 'ěr wén xué jiǎng huò zhě jiā miùér yóu zhù míng diàn yǐng dǎo yǎn nuò wéi kāng ( LuchinoVisconti) 1942 nián pāi chéng chǔnǚ zuò kāi liǎo zhàn hòu xīn xiàn shí zhù diàn yǐng de zhān kǎi yīn de lìng zuò pǐn DoubleIndemnity《 jiā bèi péi chángtóng shí míng liè bǎi bǎng 34 wèizhè běn jīng zǒu míng zhù hángliè de míng zuò suàn shì běn bǎng de tiē jīn zhī xuǎn


  The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain.
  
  The novel was quite successful and notorious upon publication, and is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century. Fast-moving and brief (only about 100 pages long, depending on the edition), the novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time, and saw the book banned in Boston.
  
  It is also included in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
  
  It has been adapted as a motion picture four times; the 1946 version is probably the best known, and is regarded as an important film noir.
  
  Plot summary
  
  The story is narrated in the first person by Frank Chambers, a young drifter who stops at a rural California diner for a meal, and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a young, beautiful woman, Cora, and her much older husband, Nick Papadakis, sometimes called "The Greek".
  
  There is an immediate attraction between Frank and Cora, and they begin a passionate affair with sadomasochistic qualities (when they first embrace, Cora commands Frank to bite her lip, and Frank does so hard enough to draw blood from Cora's lips).
  
  Cora, a femme fatale figure, is tired of her situation, married to a man she does not love, and working at a diner that she wishes to own and improve. Frank and Cora scheme to murder the Greek in order to start a new life together without Cora losing the diner.
  
  They plan on striking Nick's head and making it seem he fell and drowned in the bathtub. Cora fells Nick with a solid blow, but, due to a sudden power outage and the happenstance appearance of a policeman, the scheme is unsuccessful. Nick recovers and because of retrograde amnesia does not suspect that he narrowly avoided being killed.
  
  Still determined to kill Nick, Frank and Cora repeat the first plan, only in a car. Nick is plied with wine, then struck and killed, then the car is crashed. Both Frank and Cora are injured. The local prosecutor suspects what has actually occurred, but doesn't have enough evidence to prove it. As a tactic intended to get Cora and Frank to turn on one another, he charges only Cora with the crime of Nick's murder. They do turn against each other, with Cora insisting upon offering a full confession detailing both of their roles to ensure that she does not take the fall alone. But her lawyer tricks her into dictating that confession to a member of his own staff, which prevents her admission from reaching the prosecutor. With the prosecutor thus having failed to acquire any new evidence, he is forced to grant Cora a plea agreement, under which she is given a suspended sentence and no jail time.
  
  Frank and Cora eventually patch together their tumultuous relationship, and now plan for a future together. But as they seem to be prepared finally to live happily ever after, Cora is killed in a car accident. The book ends with Frank summarizing the events that followed, explaining that he was wrongly convicted of having murdered Cora and that the text is to be published after his execution.
  The title and explanations of its meaning
  
  The title is something of a non sequitur in that nowhere in the novel does a postman character appear, nor is one even alluded to. As such, its meaning has often been the subject of speculation by writers such as William Marling, who suggested that Cain may have taken the title from the sensational 1927 case of Ruth Snyder. Snyder was a woman who, like Cora in The Postman Always Rings Twice, had conspired with her lover to murder her husband. While it is recognized that Cain used the Snyder case as an inspiration for his 1943 novel Double Indemnity, Marling offered that it was also a model for, and the source of the title of, The Postman Always Rings Twice. In the real-life case, Snyder said she'd prevented her husband from discovering the changes she'd made to his life insurance policy by telling the postman to deliver the policy's payment notices only to her, and instructing him to ring the doorbell twice as a signal indicating he had such a delivery for her.
  
  In the preface to Double Indemnity, however, Cain gave a specific, and entirely different, explanation of the origin the title for The Postman Always Rings Twice, writing that it came from a discussion he'd had with screenwriter Vincent Lawrence. According to Cain, Lawrence spoke of the anxiety he felt when waiting for the postman to bring him news on a submitted manuscript. According to Cain, Lawrence noted that he would know when the postman had finally arrived because the postman always rang twice, and Cain then lit upon that phrase as a title for his novel. Upon discussing it further, the two men agreed such a phrase was metaphorically suited to Frank's situation at the end of the novel.
  
  With the "postman" being God, or Fate, the "delivery" meant for Frank was his own death as just retribution for murdering Nick. Frank had missed the first "ring" when he initially got away with that killing. However, the postman rang again, and this time the ring was heard, when Frank was wrongly convicted of having murdered Cora, and then sentenced to die for the crime. The theme of an inescapable fate is further underscored in the novel by The Greek's escape from death in the lovers' first murder attempt, only to be done in by their second one.
  
  In his biography of Cain, author Roy Hoopes also recounted the conversation between Cain and Lawrence that gave birth the novel's title. Hoopes's account of their conversation is similar to Cain's, but offered extended detail regarding Lawrence's comments. Specifically, in Hoopes's telling, Lawrence did not say simply that the postman always rang twice, but rather said that at times, he was so anxious awaiting the postman's delivery that he'd go into his backyard intentionally trying to avoid hearing the postman's ring. However, Lawrence continued, this tactic inevitably failed because if the postman's first ring was not noticed, he would always ring again, and, even from the backyard, that second ring would inevitably be heard.
  
  In the 1946 film adaptation of the novel, Frank explicitly explains the title in the terms offered by Hoopes's biography of Cain.
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   yuē zài zhōng shí fēn bèi rén cóng zhuāng yùn gān cǎo díkǎ chē shàng rēng liǎo xià lái
   qián tiān zài biān jìng chù zòng shēn pān shàng liǎo chēzài zhī qián zài huá xián guàng liǎo sān zhōu shí shàng chē biàn tǎng zài fān xià miàn méng tóu shuì zhe liǎo hái zài shuì de shí hòuchē zhù men zài biān tíng liǎo chē biàn shǐ yǐn qíng lěng què xià lái jiù shì zài zhè shí hòu men kàn jiàn zhǐ jiǎo cóng chē xiāng miàn shēn liǎo chū lái shì biàn cóng chē shàng rēng liǎo xià lái zuò liǎo huá dòng zuò zhè zhāo diǎn líng jiù zhǐ hǎo shōu chǎng men háo biǎo qíngdǎo shì gěi liǎo zhī yān wàn bān nàizhǐ hǎo qián xíng biàn zhǎo diǎn chī de
   zài biān liù zhe rán shuāng xiàng jiǔ guǎn yìng liǎo de yǎn liánzhè shì jiā biān xiǎo chī diànzài jiā zhōuxiàng zhè zhǒng xiǎo chī diàn jiē shìjiǔ guǎn de mén miàn cháo xiàng jiējiǔ guǎn de hòu miàn shì shèdiàn zhù jiù zhù zài biān miàn shì jiā yóu zhànjiǔ guǎn zài wǎng hòu yòu liù jiān xiǎo péng diàn zhù chēng zhī wéi chē yóu guǎn
   cōng cōng gǎn dào jiǔ guǎn qián zuò chū zuǒ yòu zhāng wàng de yàng diàn zhù jiàn zhuàng zǒu liǎo chū lái xún wèn diàn zhùshì fǒu jiàn dào kāi pái jiào chē de rén guò hái shuōzhè rén shuō hǎo yào lái zhè jiē bìng gòng jìn cāndiàn zhù shì rénshuō jīn tiān méi jiàn dào zhè yàng rén láirán hòu biàn zài zhāng cān zhuō shàng bǎi hǎo cān wèn xiǎng chī diǎn shénme diǎn liǎo chéng zhī piànjiān dàn ròuròu juàn kǎo bǐngjiān bǐng fēi děng huì 'ér biàn lái liǎo chéng zhī piàn
  “ shāo děngyòu jiàn shì gào guǒ rén lái de huàzhè dùn fàn zhǐ hǎo shē zhàng liǎoshuō hǎo qián de jīn tiān shǒu tóu yòu diǎn jié 。”
  “ hǎo shàng cài。”
   kàn chūqián lái chūyīn jiù zài kāi pái jiào chē de rén liǎoméi guò huì 'ér biàn kàn chū lìng yòu suǒ qiú
  “ hēi zuò shénme gōng zuò?”
  “ gān gān zhègān gān dìngzěn me liǎo?”
  “ duō liǎo?”
  “ èr shí 。”
  “ ā hěn nián qīng zhè yǎn xià jiù yòng nián qīng rén。”
  “ zhè fāng cuò。”
  “ kōng hǎoméi jiù xiàng zài luò shān diǎn méi yòu nián zǒng shì qíng qíng lǎng lǎng de。”
  “ dìng hǎo liǎo xiàn zài dōunéng wén dào。”
  “ zhè shuì jué shuìde hěn xiāng tián dǒng chē huì xiū ?”
  “ dāng rán shì tiān shēng de xiè shī。”
   zài shuō de kōng yòu duō me duō me de hǎohái shuō cóng mǎi liǎo zhè diàn jiù zhí hěn jiàn kāngzhǐ shì nòng míng bái de zhù shǒu wèishénme zǒng shì zài zhè dāi cháng dǎo néng zhuó chū lái wèishénme zhǐ chī shuō
  “ wèi huān zhè ?”
   shí shèng xià de fēi wán liǎodiǎn zhe liǎo gěi de xuějiā yān
  “ gào zěn me huí shìchú zhè wàihái yòu liǎng sān fāng chū yào gōng zuòzhè ràng hěn wéi nán guò huì kǎo de kěn dìng huì hǎohǎo kǎo de。”
   shí kàn jiàn liǎo rén zhí zài hòu miàn de chú fáng máng zhe shí guò lái shōu shí yòng guò de wǎn diéchú liǎo shēn duàn wài zhēn de suàn shàng shénme jué měi rén shén tài yōu zuǐ chún xiàng wài juē lǎo gāo yóu xiǎng wài juē de zuǐ chún gěi dǎo jìn
  “ zhè shì 。”
   méi yòu cǎi chōng rén diǎn diǎn tóuhuī liǎo huī shǒu de xuějiā yānjǐn 'ér duān zhāowǎn dié chū liǎoduì 'ér yán xiàng gēn běn méi chū xiàn guò shìde hěn kuài biàn kāi liǎo méi guò fēn zhōng yòu fǎn liǎo huí láishuō shì gěi kāi pái jiào chē de rén liú kǒu xìn rén chèn yòu zuò de gōng zuòyào liú xià lái
   bàn xiǎo shí zhī hòu biàn dào jiā yóu zhàn xiū lòu chē liǎo
  “ wèi jiào shénme míng ?”
  “ lán · qián 。”
  “ jiào · 。”
   liǎ liǎo shǒu biàn zǒu kāi liǎoméi huì 'ér tīng jiàn zài chàng de sǎng yīn hǎo liǎocóng jiā yóu zhàn zhèng hǎo chú fáng kàn qīng 'èr chǔ
'èr zhāng
   'èr zhāng
   jiāng jìn sān diǎn zhōng de shí hòudiàn lái liǎo rén rén nǎo xiū chéng yuán lái zhī shì shuí zài chē de tōng fēng xiǎo chuāng shàng zhāntiē liǎo biāo qiān zhǐ hǎo chú fáng biāo qiān shuà diào
  “ ròu juàn kǎo bǐng men zhè xiē rén zhēn huì zuò zhè dōng 。”
  “ shuō men zhè xiē rén shì shénme ?”
  “ hēijiù shì xiān shēng 'ā fàn chī de ròu juàn kǎo bǐng bàng liǎo。”
  “ 。”
  “ yòu zhè dōng bāo lái zhe jiù tàng liǎo。”
  “ shì zhè 。”
  “ díquè shì de。”
  “ rèn wéi shì rén。”
  “ méi huí shì。”
  “ shì de jiù zhè me rèn wéi shì zhè yàng rèn wéi de rén guò tīng zhe yàng shì bái zhǒng rénmíng bái de tóu néng shì hēi decháng néng yòu diǎn xiàngdàn yàng shì bái zhǒng rén yào xiǎng zài zhè gān xià jiù yào wàng liǎo zhè diǎn。”
  “ kàn shàng bìng xiàng rén !”
  “ zhēn de yàng shì bái zhǒng rén。”
  “ shì de kàn shàng diǎn xiàng rén xiē rén men quándōu shì qué tuǐgāo sǒng de néng pèng zhe xià huáng huáng detóu kàn shàng hǎo xiàng liǎo ròu yóu zhī shìde kàn shàng shì yàng xiǎo qiǎo líng lóng bái nèntóu jìn guǎn shì hēi dedàn róu ruǎnjuǎnqū wéi chù rén yàng de fāng shì de chǐ men de chǐ dōushì bái bái de chéng rèn men zhè yōu diǎn。”
  “ jié hūn qián de xìng jiào shǐ tīng shàng bìng tài xiàng rénshì ?”
  “ shì tài xiàng。”
  “ zài zhě lǎo jiā zài zhè dài lái 'ā huá。”
  “ hāishǐ de míng ?”
  “ yuàn de huà zhè yàng chēng 。”
   shíyòu diǎn jīng què xìn ér gāng lái shí guò shì xiā cāi liǎo xīn qíng zhí hǎodǎo shì yīn wéi xiē zuò de ròu juàn kǎo bǐng shì yīn wéi de tóu shì hēi deér shì yīn wéi jià gěi liǎo rénzhè shǐ jué zhe hǎo xiàng shì bái zhǒng rén liǎoshèn zhì hài huì kāi shǐ chēng wéi tài tài
  “ méi wèn jiào lán zěn me yàng?”
   zǒu guò láikāi shǐ bāng qīng jié tōng fēng xiǎo chuāng hěn jìn shèn zhì néng wén dào shēn shàng de wèi tiē zhe de 'ěr duǒ xiǎo shēng wèn liǎo wèn
  “ zěn me jià gěi liǎo zhè rén?”
   tiào liǎo láijiù hǎo xiàng yòng biān chōu liǎo shìde
  “ zhè guān shénme shì ?”
  “ shì defēi cháng xiāng guān。”
  “ gěi tōng fēng xiǎo chuāng。”
  “ xiè xiè。”
   mùdì dào liǎo zǒu liǎo chū zài yòu suǒ fáng bèi de qíng kuàng xià hěn hěn liǎo xià hěn shēn tòng liǎocóng xiàn zài jiù shì liǎ zhī jiān de shì liǎo huì shùn zhe dàn huì tángsè zhī dào de yòng zhī dào jīng tòu liǎo de
   chī wǎn fàn de shí hòu rén chōng liǎo huǒxián gěi shàng de zhà dòu gòu duō wàng huān zhè fāngér xiàng qián rén yàng 'ér
  “ chī jiù ràng rén chī bǎo。”
  “ jiù zài shàng huì ?”
  “ méi shí me hái 'è 。”
   láo dāo méi wán guǒ yòu diǎn nǎo de huàjiù huì kàn chū shì chū yòu yīnyīn wéi zhè rén shì huì ràng rén dòng shǒu dezhè diǎn méi shuō de bèn yào mìng tíng zài 'ér láo sāo men sān rén jiù zuò zài chú fáng de cān zhuō bàng zuò zài zhuō de tóu zuò zài zhuō de lìng tóuér zuò zài zhōng jiān méi yòu zhèng miàn kàn dàn yòng yǎn de guāng néng kàn jiàn chuān de shì jiàn bái shì lùn shì zài zhěn suǒ hái shì zài miàn bāo diàn gōng zuò de réndōuyào chuān zhè zhǒngzǎo shàng de shí hòu hái hěn gān jìngdàn shí jīng yòu diǎn zhòu yòu diǎn zàng néng wén dào shēn shàng de wèi
  “ àijiù kàn zài shàng de fèn shàng 。”
   shēn dòusuí zhī chǎng kāi liǎo xià kàn jiàn liǎo de tuǐ dòu shèng gěi zhī hòu què chī xià
  “ hǎo kànzhēténg liǎo bàn tiān què xiǎng chī。”
  “ yào shì xiǎng chī jiù yòu de chī。”
  “ 'è fàn chīde hěn bǎo。”
   jiù xiàng liǎo yīcháng shèng zhàng shìdezhè huì 'ér yòu xiǎn chū kuān hóng de yàng zhǔn bèi yuán liàng liǎo
  “ zhè rén cuò shì de xiǎo bái niǎo de xiǎo bái 。”
   shǐ liǎo yǎn shàng lóu liǎo yán zuò zài xià lái shí shǒu jiǔ píng shǒu liǎo cóng píng dǎo liǎo xiē jiǔ chū láishì xiē tián táo jiǔ liǎo hòu jué 'ěxīnnán shòu dàn zhe chàng liǎo láisǎng yīn tīng shàng xiàng nán gāo yīn chàng jiā shì zài shōu yīn tīng dào de xiē míng xiǎo bèi de nán gāo yīn shǒuér shì wàn nán gāo yīn chàng jiāzài chù gāo yīn shí jiù xiàng suǒ yīn dài shàng yànghuì càn chuò shēng shí jīng tīng xià liǎogǎn jué yuè lái yuè zāo
   kàn liǎn duìbiàn dào liǎo wài miàn
  “ chū lái diǎn xīn xiān kōng jiù huì gǎn jué hǎo xiē。”
  “ yào jǐn huì hǎo de。”
  “ zuò xiàbié kēng shēng。”
  “ jìn zhǐ shì fàn chīde tài duō liǎohuì hǎo de。”
   jìn liǎoér de dōng quán liǎo chū lái fàn hǎo dòu hǎohái yòu táo jiǔ hǎo ràng shòu liǎo zhǐ xiǎng dào rénxiǎng hàilián wèi cún xià diǎn dōng
   qīng chéndiàn pái bèi fēng guā liǎo xià láifēng shì shí fēn guā lái dedào liǎo qīng chén chéng liǎo fēng bào
  “ tiān zāo gāo tòu liǎokàn 'ér。”
  “ fēng liǎochǎo shuì dōuméi yǎn。”
  “ fēng de què hěn kàn diàn pái。”
  “ dēng pào bào liè liǎo。”
   kāi shǐ xiū diàn pái rén shí chū lái kàn kàn
  “ zhè pái cóng 'ér nòng lái de ?”
  “ mǎi zhè diàn shí jiù yòu liǎozěn me liǎo?”
  “ gòu chā de liǎoguà zhè me pái néng zhāo lǎn lái shēng cái guài 。”
   gěi liàng chē jiā yóudiū xià rén zǎi pǐn wèi de huàděng fǎn huí shí hái zài jīng 'ě wàng zhe dǎo kào zài cān tīng zhèng miàn de diàn páiyòu sān zhǎn dēng jīng bào liè chā shàng chā tóu jiē tōng diàn yuán hòu xiànshèng xià de dēng yòu bàn liàng liǎo
  “ zhuāng shàng xīn dēng hòu zài guà lái jiù xíng liǎo。”
  “ shì lǎo bǎn。”
  “ zhè pái yòu shénme tuǒ ?”
  “ zěn me shuō guò shí liǎo dēng pào diàn pái zǎo yòng liǎorén mendōu zài yòng hóng dēng diàn páixiǎn shì xiào guǒ hǎoyòng diàn yòu shǎozài shuō liǎopái shàng xiě liǎo xiē shénme shuāng xiàng jǐn 'ér ,‘ jiǔ guǎn fēndēng guāng xiǎn shì,‘ shuāng xiàngzhè liǎng yǐn de shí huì shǐ chǎn shēng tíng xià lái zhǎo diǎn fàn chī de niàn tóuzǒng zhī pái ràng péi qiánzhǐ shì hái zhī dào liǎo。”
  “ xiū hǎo jiù xíng liǎo。”
  “ wéi zuò xīn pái ?”
  “ méi kòng'ér。”
   méi guò huì 'ér yòu zhe zhāng zhǐ huí lái liǎoyuán lái jīng huà hǎo liǎo xīn diàn páibìng yòng yán chéng liǎo hóngbáilán sān pái shàng xiě zheshuāng xiàng jiǔ guǎnchī fànshāo kǎowèi shēng jié jìng de shǒu jiānlǎo bǎn N ”。
  “ bàng liǎo huì gěi rén men liú xià hǎo de yìn xiàng。”
   suǒ yòu de xiū zhèng liǎo xiàquè bǎo pīn xiě duì jìn xíng liǎo gèng duō de huā zhuāng shì
  “ zán men gànmá hái guà jiù pái jīn tiān jiù jìn chéng zhè xīn pái zuò hǎo miào liǎoxiāng xìn de huà méi cuòzài shuō zhè hěn zhòng yào diàn hǎo hǎo shǒu xiān kàn diàn pái zěn me yàng shuō shì shì?”
  “ tiān jiù zhè me bàn 。”
   luò shān guò 'èr shí yīng yuǎn què xiàng shìde bàn yóu tóu fěn miàn fàn guò biàn shàng liǎo zǒu jiù qián mén suǒ shàng liǎoshí yòng guò de pán jìng zhí cháo hòu miàn de chú fáng zǒu zài miàn
  “ biān yòu pán gěi guò lái liǎo。”
  “ òxiè xiè。”
   pán fàng xià liǎozhǐ jiàn shǒu de chā xiàng líng shìde dīng dāng xiǎng
  “ běn lái xiǎng de shì guō zuò shàng fàn liǎo xiǎng hái shì bié de hǎo。”
  “ yòu hǎo duō shì qíng yào zuò。”
  “ gǎn jué hǎo xiē liǎo ?”
  “ méi shì liǎo。”
  “ yòu shí yīn wéi diǎn diǎn xiǎo shìjiù huì ràng rén shū fāng shuō de shuǐ yuán lái de yàng liǎo。”
  “ hěn néng shì fàn chīde tài duō liǎo。”
  “ shì zěn me huí shì?”
   yòu rén zài qián mén wàidōng dōng qiāo mén
  “ tīng shàng hǎo xiàng yòu rén xiǎng jìn lái。”
  “ lán mén shàng suǒ liǎo ?”
  “ dìng shì suǒ shàng liǎo。”
   kàn liǎo yǎnliǎn biàn cāng báiyòu zǒu dào shuāng kāi tánhuáng mén xiàng wài kuī tàn liǎo xiàrán hòu zǒu jìn liǎo cān tīng méi huì 'ér yòu huí lái liǎo
  “ men zǒu liǎo。”
  “ zhī dào wèishénme mén gěi suǒ shàng liǎo。”
  “ wàng liǎo kāi。”
   yòu zhuǎn shēn cān tīng lán zhù liǎo
  “ zán men jiù ràng héng héng suǒ zhe 。”
  “ suǒ zhe jiù méi rén néng jìn lái liǎo hái yào shāo fànzhè pán huì 'ér jiù 。”
   jiāng lǎn zài huái pīn mìng qīn wěn de zuǐ chún……
  “ yǎo yǎo !”
   yǎo liǎo yòng chǐ shēn shēn yǎo zhù liǎo de shuāng chún dìng shì yǎo liǎozhǐ jué zhe de zuǐ pēn jìn liǎo xuè bào shàng lóu shíxuè zhèng shùn zhe de bógěng wǎng xià liú
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