For every great author, there's another great author eager to knock him or her down a few pegs. Although the writers here are typically deemed canonical by literary tastemakers, there wasn't much mutual admiration amongst them.

每個(gè)偉大的作家，都會(huì)受到另一個(gè)偉大作家的毒舌抨擊。盡管圖中的作家是公認(rèn)的大文學(xué)家，然而他們之間似乎彼此并不欣賞。

Mark Twain on Jane Austen

馬克·吐溫評(píng)簡(jiǎn)·奧斯汀

“I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

“我經(jīng)常想批評(píng)簡(jiǎn)·奧斯汀，但是她的書(shū)太讓我抓狂，讓我很難對(duì)讀者隱瞞我的憤怒之情；所以每次我開(kāi)始讀她的書(shū)時(shí)都不得不中途停止。每當(dāng)我讀《傲慢與偏見(jiàn)》的時(shí)候，都恨不得把她從墳?zāi)估锿诔鰜?lái)、抓起她的膝骨敲打她的頭顱。”

馬克·吐溫作品：《哈克貝利·費(fèi)恩歷險(xiǎn)記》《湯姆·索亞歷險(xiǎn)記》

簡(jiǎn)·奧斯汀作品：《傲慢與偏見(jiàn)》《理智與情感》《諾桑覺(jué)寺》《曼斯菲爾德莊園》《愛(ài)瑪》《勸導(dǎo)》

Charlotte Bront? on Jane Austen

夏洛蒂·勃朗特評(píng)簡(jiǎn)·奧斯汀

“Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? … I had not seen Pride and Prejudice till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck.”——Letter to a friend

“你為什么那么喜歡簡(jiǎn)·奧斯汀呢？我始終都沒(méi)看《傲慢與偏見(jiàn)》，直到看到你的那些話我才拿起這本書(shū)。我發(fā)現(xiàn)了什么呢？不過(guò)是對(duì)普通人照本宣科的描述罷了；只有圍墻精美、植物蔥郁、邊界整飭、鮮花爛漫的花園，卻沒(méi)有明亮生動(dòng)的畫(huà)面、空曠的原野、新鮮的空氣、蒼翠的青山、秀麗的小河。”——節(jié)選自夏洛蒂·勃朗特寫(xiě)給朋友的信

夏洛蒂·勃朗特作品：《簡(jiǎn)·愛(ài)》《雪莉》《維萊特》《教師》