'Brother of the More Famous Jack' finds its way to a new generation of readers

I first read Barbara Trapido's sparkling coming-of-age novel Brother of the More Famous Jack when it was published in 1982.

我第一次读到芭芭拉·特拉皮多 (Barbara Trapido) 的精彩成长小说《更有名的杰克的兄弟》(Brother of the More Famous Jack)，当时它于 1982 年出版。

I was in my 20s, on bedrest during a difficult first pregnancy that coincided with the publication of my first novel — which was in part about a failed college relationship.

当时我 20 多岁，第一次怀孕期间很困难，卧床休息，恰逢我的第一部小说出版——这本书的部分内容是关于一段失败的大学恋情。

Trapido's debut, about a smart-but-inexperienced young woman with a tendency to fall for the wrong guys, was just the ticket.

特拉皮多的处女作讲述了一个聪明但缺乏经验的年轻女子容易爱上错误男人的故事，这正是她的入场券。

I loved Brother of the More Famous Jack and am freshly enamored each time it's rediscovered by a new generation and celebrated with a new edition.

我很喜欢《更出名的杰克的兄弟》，每次它被新一代重新发现并以新版本庆祝时，我都会被新的迷住。

The latest, published in October by New York Review Books' Classics imprint, features a misleading cover photograph that transmits a melancholy vibe from the 1980s rather than swinging late '60s London, when much of Trapido's novel is set -- but don't let that put you off.

最新一期由纽约书评图书经典出版社于 10 月出版，封面照片具有误导性，传达出 20 世纪 80 年代的忧郁氛围，而不是特拉皮多小说的大部分故事背景是 60 年代末的伦敦——但不要因此而失望。

It is hard not to fall in love with Katherine Browne, Trapido's eager to please, mini-skirted narrator.

很难不爱上凯瑟琳·布朗，特拉皮多笔下渴望取悦的、穿着迷你裙的叙述者。

In her determination to break away from her stiflingly conventional, bourgeois upbringing and forge a less constrained life, Katherine is always game for adventure.

凯瑟琳决心摆脱令人窒息的传统资产阶级成长环境，打造一种不那么受束缚的生活，她总是热衷于冒险。

By her own admission, she's "no good at making a fuss," and considers others' shocking behavior part of her education.

她自己承认，她“不擅长大惊小怪”，并认为别人令人震惊的行为是她所受教育的一部分。

Katherine finds the chaotic, profane, unabashedly carnal family of her university philosophy professor particularly instructive — and liberating.

凯瑟琳发现她大学哲学教授的混乱、亵渎、毫不掩饰肉欲的家庭特别有启发性和解放性。

Drawn to their "bold, radical iconoclasm," she becomes infatuated with them all: the chauvinistic, leftwing patriarch, Jacob Goldman, a German Jewish refugee who later says of her college admissions interview, "The best legs I interviewed that year"; his wife, Jane, a blue-eyed madonna in Wellingtons who broke with her patrician Anglo-Irish family to marry him; and their two irreverent oldest sons, who, when exasperated, throw garlic bread at their father's head and call their mother a "dominating virago." When Katherine first visits the Goldmans on the eve of their sixth child's home birth, their conversation encompasses Jacob's graphic reasons for eschewing various methods of birth control and their small daughter's description of how the baby will arrive.

被他们“大胆、激进的反传统”所吸引，她迷上了他们所有人：沙文主义的左翼族长雅各布·戈德曼（Jacob Goldman），一位德国犹太难民，后来谈到她的大学招生面试时，“这是我那一年面试过的最好的腿”；他的妻子简是惠灵顿的一位蓝眼睛的圣母，为了嫁给他而与英国-爱尔兰贵族家庭决裂。还有他们的两个不敬的大儿子，当他们被激怒时，他们把大蒜面包扔到父亲的头上，并称他们的母亲是“霸道的泼妇”。当凯瑟琳在他们第六个孩子在家出生的前夕第一次拜访戈德曼夫妇时，他们的谈话包括雅各布避免各种节育方法的生动原因，以及他们的小女儿对婴儿如何出生的描述。

A shocked but enchanted Katherine notes: "There is more sex education about than I have encountered in all my life."

凯瑟琳震惊而又着迷地说道：“性教育比我一生中遇到的还要多。”

Trapido was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1941 and left for England in 1963.

特拉皮多 1941 年出生于南非开普敦，1963 年前往英国。

She was 40 when she wrote her first novel — married to an Oxford professor, raising two children, and working on a never-finished dissertation on the poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

40 岁时，她写下了自己的第一部小说——与牛津大学的一位教授结婚，抚养了两个孩子，并撰写了一篇关于但丁·加布里埃尔·罗塞蒂诗歌的从未完成的论文。

The book's 50 short, punchy chapters, packed with incident, argument, sex, and snappy dialogue, convey a delight with turmoil.

这本书有 50 个简短而有力的章节，充满了事件、争论、性和活泼的对话，传达了混乱中的喜悦。

Unlike so many debuts, Trapido's is not autobiographical.

与许多处女作不同，特拉皮多的作品不是自传性的。

Six novels have followed, three of which spin an elaborate web involving some of the same characters: Temples of Delight , Juggling and, the closest to a sequel, The Traveling Hornplayer .

随后出版了六本小说，其中三本精心编织了一个复杂的网络，其中涉及一些相同的角色：《欢乐神庙》、《杂耍》以及最接近续集的《旅行号角手》。

Her later novels, including her most autobiographical Frankie and Stankie — about two sisters growing up in cruelly racist, apartheid South Africa — are on the whole bleaker and sadder than Brother of the More Famous Jack.

她后来的小说，包括她最具自传性的《弗兰基》和《斯坦基》——讲述了在残酷的种族主义、种族隔离的南非长大的两姐妹的故事——总体上比《更出名的杰克的兄弟》更加凄凉和悲伤。

Many of Trapido's novels feature close pairs of brothers or sisters, though Katherine is an only child charmed by the mess and mayhem of the Goldbergs' lively household.

特拉皮多的许多小说都以亲密的兄弟姐妹为主角，尽管凯瑟琳是独生子，却被戈德堡一家热闹的家庭的混乱和混乱所吸引。

The brother referred to in its title is the poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), older sibling of the artist Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957).

标题中提到的兄弟是诗人威廉·巴特勒·叶芝（William Butler Yeats，1865-1939），艺术家杰克·巴特勒·叶芝（Jack Butler Yeats，1871-1957）的哥哥。

It's a Goldman family joke, for who's heard of Jack Butler Yeats now?

这是高盛家族的一个笑话，现在谁听说过杰克·巴特勒·叶芝？

Leitmotifs in Trapido's work include classical music, Jane Austen's Emma, and Shakespeare's comedies involving mistaken identities and doubles.

特拉皮多作品的主题包括古典音乐、简·奥斯汀的《艾玛》以及莎士比亚的涉及错误身份和替身的喜剧。

Other throughlines are concerns with social class, mental health, what used to be called the battle of the sexes, and love affairs both passionate and devastating.

其他主线是对社会阶层、心理健康、过去所谓的性别之战以及充满激情和毁灭​​性的爱情的关注。

Brother of the More Famous Jack, which the Times Literary Supplement has called "a sort of bohemian Brideshead Revisited," has become a darling of writers.

《泰晤士报文学增刊》称其为“某种波西米亚风格的故园重温”，是更为著名的杰克的兄弟，现已成为作家们的宠儿。

Lily King calls it "literary comfort food." Rachel Cusk deems this tale of the disillusions of love "brilliantly lewd" and "hilariously satisfying." Mystery book author Mick Herron, in his introduction to this latest edition, declares Trapido's subject "the eroticism of the intellect." In the enthusiastic foreword to Riverhead's 2014 edition, Maria Semple, fresh off her own success with the charming Where'd You Go Bernadette, calls it "a thrill of contradictions...endearing and shocking...

莉莉·金称之为“文学安慰食品”。雷切尔·卡斯克认为这个关于爱情幻灭的故事“非常淫荡”并且“非常令人满足”。悬疑小说的作者米克·赫伦（Mick Herron）在最新版本的简介中宣称特拉皮多的主题是“智力的色情”。在 Riverhead 2014 年版的热情前言中，玛丽亚·森普尔 (Maria Semple) 凭借迷人的《伯纳黛特你去哪儿了》(Where'd You Go Bernadette) 获得了成功，她称其为“矛盾的刺激……可爱又令人震惊……”

romantic and raunchy...loving and rude." Read whatever version you can get your hands on.

浪漫又不修边幅……充满爱意又粗鲁。”阅读您能找到的任何版本。