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专辑号：NA210212 发行时间：26/08/1996 所属厂牌：NBC 所属分类： 青少年文学 -
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- J. M. BarriePETER PAN “The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up” has held a particularlytender place in our hearts since he flew in through our window in 1904.Dressed in green, gnashing his pearly-white teeth and scorning all grown-ups,he struck a deep chord in children and the adults (who themselves, alas, couldnot desist the onset of puberty) that they eventually became. Little by little, Peter Pan was conceived through a seriesof stories told to the five orphaned boys to whom J. M. Barrie offered his homeafter the death of their parents, his friends, Arthur and Sylvia LlewelynDavies. He wrought the material into a play, which was first performed in 1904at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London, and was an overwhelming triumph. Twoyears later, the story Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens followed and in 1911Barrie retold the original Peter Pan in the form of a short novel (the versionwhich has been used for this audiobook). James Matthew Barrie, born in 1860, was himself the ninth often children of a Scottish weaver. He was devoted to his mother who isremembered in his biography of her, Margaret Ogilvy (1896), and their closerelationship is believed to be behind his withdrawal from the adult world andthe heartfelt references to motherhood and maternal goodness that are soevident in Peter Pan. His other works, including the plays Quality Street(1901), The Admiral Crichton (1902) and What Every Woman Knows (1906) were wellreceived at the time but, despite this, his name has become inextricablyconnected with that of Peter Pan alone. Barrie was knighted in 1913. When hedied in 1937, he bequeathed all royalties from Peter Pan to the Great OrmondStreet Hospital for Sick Children. A special Act of Parliament then enabledthis arrangement to continue even after the work went out of copyright 50years later.The story’s worldwide popularity is due in part, of course,like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, to the winning combination ofexciting adventure, colorful characters and wicked villains along with thefantasy element added by fairies, mermaids and flying. But Peter Pan’suniqueness shines through in the passages where Barrie describes a fictionalnonsense with such a down-to-earth and detailed authority that children swallowit whole (and even their parents are left wondering...). The “nightly custom of every good mother after her childrenare asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for nextmorning”... Lost shadows needing to be sewn back on to their owners... Thechildren who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking theother way and who are sent far away to the Neverland... — all come across asperfectly logical and credible phenomena. As well as thrilling children, Peter Pan also impartsmessages of truth to its adult readers. Peter Pan epitomizes childhood, heinspires love — thus he can be seen “in the faces of many women who have nochildren... and in the faces of some mothers also”. Many will also agree withBarrie’s warning that “Every child is affected thus [i.e. horrified] the firsttime he is treated unfairly. After you have been unfair to him ... he willnever afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness...”In sections like this, a kind of ‘aside’ to the adult reader, Barrie’s wordsremind us of our own childhood and in doing so prompt us to raise our ownchildren with empathy. It is almost a hundred years since Peter Pan entered theworld. Who or what is he today? A pantomime character played by young actressesin green tights; a cultural icon; an inspiration and role model to theoccasional pop star; the nation’s dream-child; a statue in Kensington Gardens;the subject of endless deconstruction and even Freudian analysis... Perhaps weshould leave it to Peter himself to answer the question: “I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m alittle bird that has broken out of the egg.” Notes by Anna Britten
