说它是一部经典已经没有异议。《红字》的作者霍桑是我心中最了不起的小说家。我接触到它很早,至少在三十多年以前。那是一个很老的版本,一九五一年,上海新文艺出版社,整整半个世纪之前,也是共和国建立之初。我记得译者是侍桁。 Say it is a classic has no objection. Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, is the greatest novelist in my heart. I came into contact with it very early, at least thirty years ago. It was a very old version. In 1951, Shanghai New Literature and Art Publishing House was exactly half a century before the founding of the republic. I remember the translator is a masthead.