Chapter subtitle: Shades of Grey Looming Over the Literary World of Britain and America

The sun was about to rise to the highest point of the day, and Anastasia, the daughter of Peter and the wife of Chicherin, who had never been so tired, finally woke up. www.biquge.info She was a little disappointed to find that the Chinese, who was a little strange but had good physical strength, was gone.

Anna stretched and was about to get out of bed, when she found the stack of papers on the bedside table. When she picked it up, she saw the line of bright red inscriptions, For-the-Red-Queen-of-the-Queens-Country.

Dedicated to the Red Queen of Queens? Is this dedicated to me?

Anna was a little confused, I didn't see Neo holding this pile of manuscripts in her hand yesterday, could it be that I didn't notice this at all last night?

Thinking of last night, the red queen of Queens blushed and shook her head, and then raised her eyes to the title of this manuscript:

《Fifty-Shades-of-Grey》。

"Fifty-Shades-of-Grey is a novel that is no stranger to readers from all over the world. However, in 1922, when this novel first appeared in front of the world, it was shocking. Regarded by conservatives as the cult of Sodom and by radicals as the Western Hindu Book of Love, it opened the door to a new world for the general public. There are even those who think that this is a great step forward in human sexuality......"

Translator's Note 1: The Chinese version translates "Fifty Shades of Gray" or "Fifty Shades of Gray. 》。

Translator's Note 2: The Old Testament record of a city with corrupt customs. Located in the southern part of the Dead Sea, it is now submerged underwater.

"The storyline of this book is fairly simple, about a woman named Anastasia? Anastasia-Steele, a 21-year-old innocent female college student, went to interview Christian, a handsome 28-year-old young entrepreneur, because she was writing a story for the school newspaper? Christian-Grey. The two fell in love and soon became close. But after marriage, Anna discovers a different side of her husband that she doesn't know, and after some inner struggle, she begins to explore her desire between white and black with him. In fact, even in terms of plot alone, this is beyond the general perception of women at that time. So it's no surprise that feminists see this book as a precursor to the female ***** self. And it's a depiction of the future, and it's not surprising that some people classify it as soft science fiction......"

And its bold and explicit depiction of *** and S/M has also attracted the attention of psychologists. The two great psychologists of the beginning of this century, the "father of psychoanalysis" and the founder of the "First Vienna School of Psychoanalysis", Sigmund ? Both Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, who pioneered the "three-tiered personality of consciousness, the individual unconscious, and the collective unconscious," wrote books dedicated to the book. The former is "Totems and Taboos: A Study of Human Taboo Sexuality/Behavior", while the latter is "Christianity and Demon Worship from the S/M" ......"

Author's note: Freud did write "Totems and Taboos", of course that subtitle is not. And Jung once wrote a book "Faust and Buddhism".

But for us as scholars of British and American literature, the most fascinating part of Fifty-Shades-of-Grey is the same question: who is the author? The question is so fascinating and confusing to us that the unsung writer of the famous novel has even been jokingly dubbed 'Jack the Ripper of 20th-century English literature'. ”

At the end of 1921, an Eastern European woman with red hair of the same name as the heroine arrived in Chicago alone. With her modest savings, she rented a modest private house, and after recruiting two young women, also from Eastern Europe, opened her first 'Palace-of-red-queen'. Because of the special services it provided, it did not take long for it to become a popular pastime for the gentlemen of the Windy City, and the Palace of the Red Queen grew rapidly, and by the end of 1922 there were more than twenty girls employed in it. Because the supply exceeded the demand, the membership system had to be adopted. This naturally attracted imitators, who had received Anastasia through heavy money? The girls Ms. Steele trained wanted to create their own 'Red Queen's Palace'. To their surprise, Ms. Steele deserved to bear the surname Steele, and she quickly fought back. Her counter-attack was to simply divide the book "Fifty-Shades-of-Grey" into a dozen paragraphs, each of which was printed as a booklet for her customers. And so the book appeared in front of the world in this way. However, this did not affect Ms. Steele's business, but only made her and her 'Red Queen's Palace' famous......"

Translator's Note 1: The Windy City is Chicago's nickname.

Translator's Note 2: Steele is a transliteration of steele.

Of course, when Ms. Steele was asked if she was the author, she replied that a friend of hers had written it. Moreover, as an adult woman who only began to learn English in earnest after arriving in the United States, I can confirm that she does not have the ability to handle such a long work......"

In the twenties, there were those who believed that it was written anonymously by the British writer D.H. Lawrence, but he himself denied it. Another point of view is that based on her gentle style of wording and sentence formation and accurate grasp of women's psychology, this should be a female writer. Unfortunately, the 'Marguerite Duras of the Twenties' was never found......

Translator's Note 1: David Herbert-Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was a 20th-century British writer. He was one of the most important figures in English-language literature of the 20th century, and one of the most controversial writers, writing poetry, plays, essays, travelogues, and letters, but mainly novels, 10 of which are most notably The Rainbow (1915), The Woman in Love (1921), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).

Translator's Note 2: Formerly known as Margaret? Toladio is a famous French writer, playwright, and film director. She is best known for her 1950 autobiographical novel The Levee Against the Pacific. His representative works include "Hiroshima Love" and "Lover". ”