Mu Xin, born in 1927 in China, is among the last of his generation to receive a classical education. During the Cultural Revolution he was imprisoned for eighteen months and then lived under house arrest for several years. In 1982 he moved to the U.S., where he lived in Queens, New York, and only recently moved back to his hometown in China. He is the author of several collections of stories, poetry, and essays, as well as being a world-renowned painter.
发表于2024-12-31
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出版这本小说集的 New Directions 是一家很有声望的出版社,常出版各国著名作家的英语翻译作品。木心的十三篇本是不同的短篇,但经作者和译者的合作,成为一个长篇小说。英语里这中长篇的安排有一个专用术语:a short story cycle. 其他的例子有:海明威的 In Our Time, 安德...
评分To draw a critic's line about the English rendition of Mu Xin's thirteen short stories that is allegedly chosen by Mu Xin, "Familiar with both Asian and Western ways---he's also a man of our day---he creates an art of communion, one that brings together the...
评分部分文章:http://weibo.com/2141239811/B55y4lGUg 狱中手稿部分:名优之死 I. Death of a Diva It’s ironic that in this dungeon, forced into the life of an ascetic, I should feel like St. Anthony. As long as I can mentally resist the temptation of illusions, ...
评分英文版的书刚刚上市。 美国《出版人周刊》给了一个“明星推荐” (starred review)。评论短文如下: Characters occupy a haunting world of ambivalence and moral decay in Mu's English language debut, a collection about people unmoored by the changes that took pla...
评分出版这本小说集的 New Directions 是一家很有声望的出版社,常出版各国著名作家的英语翻译作品。木心的十三篇本是不同的短篇,但经作者和译者的合作,成为一个长篇小说。英语里这中长篇的安排有一个专用术语:a short story cycle. 其他的例子有:海明威的 In Our Time, 安德...
图书标签: 木心 木心先生 文学 英文原版 随笔 童明 隨筆 中國
A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world s leading artist-intellectuals.
An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin toappear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written whileMu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beautyof Hemingway s In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata s palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhisthalos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin s wandering I interweaves plotswith philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes asymbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribblesnotes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandonedtemple room holds a dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirringpage turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.
就是温莎墓园日记。比中文原版加颗星,因为译得已几近完美。再完美的英译本一看就是中文,因为从来没有过长句。拥有这种密度,这种能将普鲁士特的意识流牵得直直下坠的重力的语言,是西方眼里跨越了千年也猜不透的蒙娜丽莎。
评分翻译有点平庸……
评分看木心先生的照片一直觉得他受过那么多磨难,却还是有一张没受过欺负的脸,读他的故事集才明白那些苦难还是留下了痕迹的,以他用另一种方式在消化着,纪念着。(在纽约Greenwich village的独立书店看到这本先生的书买了下来,这竟是他在住了二十几年的美国唯一英文出版的书,想来觉得可惜可叹。童明的翻译非常好,有海明威的风格,简洁准确有力,和豹变的中文原文相比很多地方甚至更甚一筹)
评分“What interests me is not "things past" but how to achieve simultaneously two 'I''s' through remembrance: One is long dead, the other still living."... "There are two... relevant proverbs: One is: 'Life is found in a desperate condition.' The other is 'Put someone in the place of death so that there can be a rebirth of life.'
评分一口镜子一面井。
An Empty Room 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书