一七八六年一个冬天的傍晚,维也纳城郊的一间小木屋里,一位失明的老人,杜恩伯爵夫人从前的厨师快要死了。其实,这甚至不能算是一间屋子,而是花园深处一间破旧的岗棚。花园里堆满了被风刮落的枯朽树枝。一走动,树枝就在脚下喀嚓喀嚓地响,于是用链子拴在窝里的一只狗就开始低声唔 One winter evening in 1786, a blind man in a wooden cabin in the suburbs of Vienna, the former chef of the Duke of Dorn, was about to die. In fact, this can not even be regarded as a house, but a dilapidated post in the depths of the garden. The garden is full of fallen branches that have been scraped by the wind. As soon as it moved, the branches snapped at their feet, so a dog chained in his nest began to whisper