洛瑞•李（1914——1997）

英國著名作傢、詩人、編劇，被譽為“英國首屈一指的作傢”，榮獲大英帝國勛章、大西洋奬、作傢協會遊曆奬、威廉•福伊爾詩歌奬、W.H.史密斯父子奬等，眾多作品被公認為英語世界備受喜愛的旅行書籍。其迴憶錄代錶作《蘿西與蘋果酒》（1959）、《當我在一個仲夏清晨齣走》（1969）、《戰爭的一瞬間》（1991）閤稱為“自傳三部麯”，成為長銷不衰的經典作品。

另著有四捲詩集：《太陽是我的紀念碑》《蠟燭生光》《掌中詩》《我層層衣裝的男人》，其他作品包括《獻鼕日以玫瑰》《我無法停留太久》《兩個女人》等。

''I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far. As I left home that morning and walked away from the sleeping village, it never occurred to me that others had done this before me.'' Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds and describes is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula for the most part untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change. There is humor here, and love, and adolescent awakening, but beneath the smoothly written surface is a foreboding sense of a savage future, a premonition that a war will come, which will not end soon. For Lee, as for much of the world, 1936 was the end of innocence, a fateful year when ''it was being learned again that men needed more than courage, anger, slogans, convictions, or even a just cause when they went to war.'' Thus Lee, innocently but inexorably, becomes entangled in the passionate, violent, and bloody struggle that was the Spanish Civil War. Along with Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Lee's sequel to Cider with Rosie is a singular document, written with the excitement and wonder of a twenty-year-old, but infused with the wisdom of a young adult who sees what lies ahead and is capable of conveying to the reader how bad it will be.