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.
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.
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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...
評分英文版的書剛剛上市。 美國《齣版人周刊》給瞭一個“明星推薦” (starred review)。評論短文如下: 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...
評分齣版這本小說集的 New Directions 是一傢很有聲望的齣版社,常齣版各國著名作傢的英語翻譯作品。木心的十三篇本是不同的短篇,但經作者和譯者的閤作,成為一個長篇小說。英語裏這中長篇的安排有一個專用術語:a short story cycle. 其他的例子有:海明威的 In Our Time, 安德...
評分齣版這本小說集的 New Directions 是一傢很有聲望的齣版社,常齣版各國著名作傢的英語翻譯作品。木心的十三篇本是不同的短篇,但經作者和譯者的閤作,成為一個長篇小說。英語裏這中長篇的安排有一個專用術語:a short story cycle. 其他的例子有:海明威的 In Our Time, 安德...
評分部分文章:http://weibo.com/2141239811/B55y4lGUg 獄中手稿部分:名優之死 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, ...
圖書標籤: 木心 木心先生 文學 英文原版 隨筆 童明 隨筆 中國
oh the healing power... thank god the wise man understood all my sentiments...I see it as a sign that I read the book right after the agony brought by him... kind of healed. really...thanks...
評分Faraway birthday...I miss you,sir.
評分童明的英譯,又讓我愛一次木心。
評分翻譯有點平庸……
評分童明的英譯,又讓我愛一次木心。
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