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.
發表於2025-04-26
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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...
圖書標籤: 木心 木心先生 文學 英文原版 隨筆 童明 隨筆 中國
譯成英文還是很好看。。
評分就是溫莎墓園日記。比中文原版加顆星,因為譯得已幾近完美。再完美的英譯本一看就是中文,因為從來沒有過長句。擁有這種密度,這種能將普魯士特的意識流牽得直直下墜的重力的語言,是西方眼裏跨越瞭韆年也猜不透的濛娜麗莎。
評分Faraway birthday...I miss you,sir.
評分翻譯有點平庸……
評分“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.'
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