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A Defense of Detective Stories ——Gilbert Keith Chesterton 生平简介 G.K.切斯特顿（Gilbert Keith Chesterton，1874~1936），英国作家、文学评论家，经常被誉为“悖论王子”。早年在圣保罗学校和斯莱德艺术学校求学。当过记者，于1925年起主办《新证人报》（后改名为《G.K.周刊》）。散文风格多样，文笔轻盈。文学批评颇获称誉。论著《文学中的维多利亚时代》（1913)及有关勃朗宁、狄更斯、萨克雷、乔叟的研究著作见解精当。 其创造的最著名的角色是牧师侦探布朗神父，首开以犯罪心理学方式推理案情之先河，《布朗神父探案》是英国著名推理小说之一。其它小说有《诺廷山上的拿破仑》（1904），诗集有《野骑士》（1900)、《新诗集》（1932)，其中以诗篇《飞行的小客栈》最为著名 布朗神父探案系列故事是英国著名推理小说代表作之一，作品文词优美、味道醇厚、叙述多趣、使人读后深思不已，深受到广大读者的喜爱，被众多文学评论家列为优秀文学作品。 布朗神父，与爱伦·坡笔下的杜宾和柯南道尔塑造的福尔摩斯并称为世界三大名探。 The Defendant I have conceived that a defendant is chiefly required when worldlings(俗人）despise（轻视） the world—that a counsel for the defence would not have been out of place in that terrible day when the sun was darkened over Calvary and Man was rejected of men. -------THE DEFENDAN INTRODUCTION If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives（保守派）. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards. -------IN DEFENCE OF A NEW EDITION 语篇结构归纳 Part 1（paras.1-2） A detective story is a perfectly legitimate form of art, and it also has certain definite and real advantages as an agent of the public weal. 侦探小说是一种全然正统的艺术形式，还具备某些绝对且真实的优点，可做为大众幸福的代表。 Part 2( paras. 3-4) The first essential value of the detective story lies in this, that it is the earliest and only form of popular literature in which is expressed some sense of the poetry of modern life. (1) Detective storiy acts as the modern urban equivalent （相等的）of historical epic romances, such as the Iliad (2)Anything which tends to assert the romance of detail in civilization, to emphasize this unfathomably human character in flints and tiles, is a good thing. Part 3( paras.5) The function of detective sto