Introduction: Thinking in/about Bowen

J. Gildersleeve, P. J. Smith
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Elizabeth Bowen’s first short story, ‘Breakfast’ (1923), begins with a thought: ‘“Behold, I die daily,” thought Mr Rossiter, entering the breakfast-room.’1 It is a story primarily structured by thought: Mr Rossiter says very little, and the reader is privy to his reflections on the odious people with whom he must daily share his morning meal. The emphasis on consciousness and subjectivity is a typically modernist move, as is the story’s sense of a ‘life in death’, its allusion, perhaps, to the end of the second canto of ...
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伊丽莎白·鲍恩的第一部短篇小说《早餐》(1923)以一个想法开头:“瞧,我每天都在死去,”罗西特先生走进早餐室时想道。这是一个主要由思想构成的故事:罗西特先生说得很少,读者可以知道他对那些他每天必须与之共进早餐的可恶的人的看法。对意识和主体性的强调是典型的现代主义手法,就像故事中“死亡中的生命”的感觉一样,它的暗示,也许是在第二章的结尾。
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