叙事医学在线读书会:《魔山》第十周

第10周:Castorp终于和Chauchat夫人通话了!多么美妙的景色;我不知道其他人会不会像我一样惊讶于Castorp如此彻底地表白自己的爱!所有人都被压抑着，直到这一幕，我惊讶地看到它倾泻而出。他对她的最后一次滔滔不绝的演讲，据说全是法语，但他“不会说”。然而，他的演讲很有特色，是关于身体和死亡的机制的长篇大论:“啊，爱，你知道。身体，爱，死亡，都是一样的。因为肉体是疾病和堕落，它是死亡的来源，是的，爱和死亡，两者都是肉欲的，这是他们恐怖和伟大魔力的来源!”最后，他恳求她说:“让我吸进你的毛孔，刷下你的汗毛——哦，我那由水和蛋白质构成的人体形象，注定要进入坟墓。让我死吧，我的嘴唇贴着你的嘴唇!”对书中爱的主题非常感兴趣，所以清楚地探索了疾病和死亡……

Week 10: Finally Castorp speaks to Madame Chauchat! What a wonderful scene; I wonder if others were surprised, as I was, at how completely Castorp confesses his love! All had been so repressed until this scene, I was surprised to see it come pouring out. His last gushing speech to her, supposedly all in French which he "does not speak," felt very characteristic, however - a long discourse on the mechanics of body and death: "Ah, love, you know. The body, love, death, are simply one and the same. Because the body is sickness and depravity, it is what produces death, yes, both of them, love and death, are carnal, and that is the source of their terror and great magic!" And his last amazing plea to her: "Let me take in the exhalation of your pores and brush the down - oh, my human image made of water and protein, destined for the contours of the grave, let me perish, my lips against yours!" Very interested in the theme of love in this book, so clearly explored alongside illness and death...