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2024-12-23
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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, ...
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, ...
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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。
評分最好的木心小說中譯本,有幸聽過譯者講課,受益匪淺
評分木心的書從來不會讓人失望!
評分翻譯有點平庸……
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