兰贝斯的丽莎 (Liza of Lambeth)

《兰贝斯的丽莎》是毛姆长篇小说的处女作和成名作。一八九二年十月三日,十八岁的毛姆成为伦敦圣托马斯医院医学院的一名学生,为期五年的学医生涯,不仅使他有机会了解到底层人民的生活状况,而且使他学会用解剖刀一样冷峻、犀利的目光来剖视人生和社会。他的第一部小说《兰贝斯的丽莎》,即根据他作为见习医生在贫民区为产妇接生时的见闻用自然主义手法写成。它描写的是贫民窟的一个与寡母相依为命的漂亮姑娘丽莎短促的一生和悲剧性的死亡,通过一个劳工阶层的通奸故事真切地反映出世纪之交劳工阶层的伦敦人的日常生活。真实、大胆,又富含同情的幽默。(Liza of Lambeth is the maiden and famous work of Maugham's full-length novels. On October 3rd of 1892, the eighteen-year-old Maugham became a student in medical school of London Thomas hospital, the medical career for five years not only made him have chance to understand the living conditions of the bottom but also make him learn to view the life and society with clod and sharp sight like the scalpel. His first novel Liza of Lambeth was written by the naturalism technique according to what he saw and heard as an intern doctor in the slum to deliver for the puerperal. It describes the short life and tragic death of a beautiful girl who was bounded by her mother in the slum, actually reflecting the working-class People's Daily lives in London in the turn of the century through an adultery story of the working-class people. It is real, bold and has the humor of sympathy.)