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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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, ...
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...
圖書標籤: 木心 木心先生 文學 英文原版 隨筆 童明 隨筆 中國
“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.'
評分非是童明先生不夠優秀,然而英文行間依舊透著中文的翻譯味,木心文字特有的韻感與節奏感蕩然無存。《齣版人周刊》的推薦評論也隻是大賞木心的文革背景。西方的文評總是如此,對中國的趣味多半集中在文革上,買櫝還珠式的審美。縱使木心行文隻把過往當做遠景,縱使木心極力隱藏自己、避免被貼上文革舊人的標簽。
評分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“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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