幾點碎碎念，

1. 羨慕這兩個人的關(guān)系，友情以上，soulmate的感覺，加之親情。難怪Vita對Violet坦白她incapable of being faithful的時候卻說唯獨一直深深愛著Harold. 港真這難道不是形婚的最高境界嗎！??！

2. Janet McTeer太棒了，與看完vita & virginia的感受截然相反，這版vita完全勾起了我想要了解這個女人的欲望。

3. 最后一段感覺dramatize過頭了，不知道真實情況什么樣的，需要看原著再自己慢慢挖掘吧。沒想到Vita占有欲這么強(qiáng)，得知女朋友和自己合法老公睡過就要死要活的，各種錘墻掐人放狠話，相比起來我們煤老板就隱忍多了，被情人的老公間接傳染了性病也只能打碎牙齒和血吞。。。(誤) 還不認(rèn)識煤老板的給一個傳送門: //www.douban.com/doubanapp/dispatch/movie/26989670

4. Vita Sackville-West有被譯成中文的作品嗎？大致找了一下，約莫一部也沒有？！書信集可以先翻起來，天啊這幾個人都是那么的能寫，感覺閱讀量巨大。。

5. 這個Vita我太可以了讓我流一會兒鼻血...連Harold都忍不住夸穿著馬褲的Vita好帥...

最近看了本講英國作家住宅的書《優(yōu)雅的相遇》，其中有些關(guān)于薇塔的背景資料，轉(zhuǎn)抄過來。

1，諾爾莊園

薇塔出生并成長于諾爾莊園，諾爾莊園是英格蘭最大的莊園住宅，大宅周圍是占地一千多英畝的壯麗園林和鹿園。諾爾莊園大宅原是坎特伯雷大主教的豪華住宅，后來贈給亨利八世，再后來由伊麗莎白一世贈給了（表兄）托馬斯·薩克維爾。莊園大宅內(nèi)部有365個房間，52個樓梯，12個大門入口，7個庭院。弗吉尼亞·伍爾芙曾經(jīng)估計，“那一片建筑”很可能“有牛津一半那么大”。薇塔稱：“我對諾爾莊園深深的愛勝過我生命中的一切”。

然而，只有男性家族成員才可繼承莊園。在薇塔36歲時，他父親去世，莊園由他的伯父繼承。弗吉尼亞·伍爾芙非常理解薇塔的失落感，她在日記中寫道，“昨天我和薇塔路過諾爾莊園，被迫轉(zhuǎn)過臉去不看這座沒有主人、沒有旗幟的莊園。這是她最介意的?！?928年，伍爾芙送給薇塔一份不同尋常的禮物，終于為她保存對諾爾莊園的記憶找到了一個可行途徑，那就是《奧蘭多》?！秺W蘭多》大量運(yùn)用了諾爾莊園的歷史素材，使薇塔看得“眼花繚亂，心醉神迷”。

第二次世界大戰(zhàn)初期，諾爾莊園已經(jīng)岌岌可危。1946年第四任薩克維爾男爵把諾爾莊園以及一筆維護(hù)費用一同捐給了國民托管組織。兩年后，薇塔·薩克維爾-韋斯特寫出了第一本國民托管組織認(rèn)可的諾爾莊園導(dǎo)游指南。

2，西辛赫斯特城堡（Sissinghurst Castle）

由于長子繼承制的緣故，薇塔被剝奪了繼承諾爾莊園的權(quán)利。1930年，薇塔夫婦在西辛赫斯特城堡開始的新生活，薇塔對西辛赫斯特城堡一見鐘情。,

最初，條件非常簡陋。他們夫婦二人只能睡在潮濕的野營床上，在燭光下讀書。改造西辛赫斯特城堡的挑戰(zhàn)非常艱巨。但是尼科爾森和薩克維爾-韋斯特不辭辛苦，努力勞作了很長時間，很像生意上的合作伙伴。她負(fù)責(zé)園藝工作，他則負(fù)責(zé)整體設(shè)計。

1938年，薇塔很不情愿地把西辛赫斯特城堡對公眾開放。她傲慢地把游客們稱為“先令客”，因為當(dāng)時的參觀門票售價為一先令（5便士）。如今門票售價不可避免地有所提高，然而游客們卻能領(lǐng)略到豐富多彩的各種園藝樂趣。

西辛赫斯特城堡的塔樓是她作家生涯中極其重要的一個地方，那是她幽居獨處的場所，游客在這里不受歡迎。薩克維爾-韋斯特平時寫作用的那個房間在塔樓中層，通過一段螺旋式樓梯進(jìn)入室內(nèi)。這個房間至今沒有任何變動，四周墻壁上仍然擺放著已經(jīng)長久被人遺忘的出版物。其中一些同園藝、歷史和旅游等方面的內(nèi)容有關(guān)。她在自己摯愛的塔樓小屋里總共寫出了20本書。1946至1961年間，她每周都要為《觀察家報》（Observer）撰寫一篇備受期待的園藝專欄文章。她喜歡從塔樓頂端向下凝視自己的勞動成果——那座她非常珍愛的花園。

西辛赫斯特城堡藏書室現(xiàn)已對游客開放，里面有數(shù)千冊圖書。其中許多是尼科爾森收藏的贈閱本圖書。他在西辛赫斯特城堡的南舍寫作，那里更加便利。他的妻子則在塔樓的小房間里尋找寧靜，不受外界打擾。出乎預(yù)料的是，尼科爾森是西辛赫斯特城堡里更為多產(chǎn)的作家。他輪流使用三臺打字機(jī)（分別被稱為里基、蒂基利、大維）寫下了共300萬字的日記，“從沒想過發(fā)表”。

薇塔-薩克維爾-韋斯特搬到西辛赫斯特城堡時已經(jīng)是一位富有的女人。但是她在去世時卻身無分文，因為她的個人財產(chǎn)全部都花在了住宅和花園上；她花費了難以計數(shù)的時間來實現(xiàn)自己的夢想。她曾經(jīng)寫道，西辛赫斯特城堡“讓我累彎了腰，弄破了指甲，有時也讓我感到非常傷心”。

她去世后，西辛赫斯特莊園轉(zhuǎn)讓給了國民托管組織，代替遺產(chǎn)稅。如今該組織雇用了九名園丁維護(hù)保管她創(chuàng)造的那片美麗園地。

另，網(wǎng)上資料：

西辛赫斯特城堡花園是英格蘭最漂亮、最出名的世界級花園之一。

薇塔1962年去世，她將這座城堡花園贈與更熱愛鄉(xiāng)村田園生活的次子Nigel。薇塔的長子Bennidict，是藝術(shù)史家；次子Nigel,作家，記者，出版家，議員。他撰寫的關(guān)于父母的書《一幅婚姻的肖像》獲得過最佳傳記獎，并被拍成了電視連續(xù)劇。2004年Nigel去世，他的兒子Adam和妻子繼續(xù)住在這個城堡里。Adam也是作家，他寫的關(guān)于祖先花園的《西辛赫斯特》獲得2009年英國皇家文學(xué)協(xié)會的“翁達(dá)杰獎”，以及最佳家庭歷史書籍獎。

(1) Violet Keppel, Don't Look Round (1952)

No one had told me that Vita (Sackville-West) had turned into a beauty. The knobs and knuckles had all disappeared. She was tall and graceful. The profund, hereditary Sackville eyes were as pools from which the morning mists had lifted. A peach might have envied her complexion. Round her revolved several enamoured young men.

(2) Vita Sackville-West, Autobiography (1920)

I hate writing this, but I must, I must. When I began this I swore I would shirk nothing, and no more I will. So here is the truth: I was never so much in love with Rosamund as during those weeks in Italy and the months that followed. It may seem that I should have missed Harold more. I admit everything, to my shame, but I have never pretended to have anything other than a base and despicable character. I seem to be incapable of fidelity, as much then as now. But, as a sole justification, I separate my loves into two halves: Harold, who is unalterable, perennial, and best; there has never been anything but absolute purity in my love for Harold, just as there has never been anything but absolute purity in his nature. And on the other hand stands my perverted nature, which loved and tyrannized over Rosamund and ended by deserting her without one heart-pang, and which now is linked irremediably with Violet. I have here a scrap of paper on which Violet, intuitive psychologist, has scribbled, "The upper half of your face is so pure and grave - almost childlike. And the lower half is so domineering, sensual, almost brutal - it is the most absurd contrast, and extraordinarily symbolical of your Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde personality." That is the whole crux of the matter, and I see now that my whole curse has been a duality with which I was too weak and too self-indulgent to struggle.

(3) Violet Trefusis, letter to Vita Sackville-West (March 1919)

My own sweet love, I am writing this at 2 o'clock in the morning at the conclusion of the most cruelly ironical clay I have spent in my life.

This evening I was taken to a ball of some good people. Chinday had previously told all her friends I was engaged so I was congratulated by everyone I knew there. I could have screamed aloud. Mitya, I can't face this existence. I shall see you once again on Monday and it depends on you whether we shall ever see each other again.

It is really wicked and horrible. I am losing every atom of self-respect I ever possessed. I hate myself. 0 Mitya, what have you done to me? 0 my darling, precious love, what is going to become of use

I want you every second and every hour of the day, yet I am being slowly and inexorably tied to somebody else... Sometimes I am flooded by an agony of physical longing for you... a craving for your nearness and your touch. At other times I feel I should be quite content if I could only hear the sound of your voice. I try so hard to imagine your lips on mine. Never was there such a pitiful imagining.... Darling, whatever it may cost us, my mother won't be cross with you any more. I suppose this ridiculous engagement will set her mind at rest....

Nothing and no one in the world could kill the love I have for you. I have surrendered my whole individuality, the very essence of my being to you. I have given you my body time after time to treat as you pleased, to tear to pieces if such had been your will. All the hoardings of my imagination I have laid bare to you. There isn't a recess in my brain into which you haven't penetrated. I have clung to you and caressed you and slept with you and I would like to tell the whole world I clamour for you.... You are my lover and I am your mistress, and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination - the most powerful in the world.

(4) Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage (1973)

She (Vita) didn't know how strong and dangerous such passion could be, until Violet replaced Rosamund. Of course she knew that "such a thing existed", but she did not give it a name, and felt no guilt about it. At the time of her marriage she may have been ignorant that men could feel for other men as she had felt for Rosamund, but when she had made this discovery in Harold himself, it did not come as a great shock to her, for she had the romantic notion that it was natural and salutary for "people" to love each other, and the desire to kiss and touch was simply the physical expression of affection, and it made no difference whether it was affection between people of the same sex or the opposite.

It was fortunate that both were made that way. If only one of them had been, their marriage would probably have collapsed. Violet did not destroy their physical union; she simply provided the alternative for which Vita was unconsciously seeking at the moment when her physical passion for Harold, and his for her, had begun to cool. In Harold's life at that time there was no male Violet, luckily for him, since his love for Vita might not have survived two rivals simultaneously. Before he met Vita he had been half-engaged to another girl, Eileen Wellesley. He was not driven to homosexuality by Vita's temporary desertion of him, because it had always been latent, but his loneliness may have encouraged this tendency to develop, since with his strong sense of duty (much stronger than Vita's) he felt it to be less treacherous to sleep with men in her absence than with other women. When he was left stranded in Paris, he once confessed to Vita that he was "spending his time with rather low people, the demi-monde", and this could have meant young men. When she returned to him, it certainly did. Lady Sackville noted in her diary, "Vita intends to be very platonic with Harold, who accepts it like a lamb.' They never shared a bedroom after that.

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