多年来,我的大脑已经摒弃了汉语。我用英语做梦,用英语自言自语。而我的记忆,不仅是那些关于美国的记忆,还有那些关于中国的记忆;无论是那些我记住的,还是那些我希望存档并忘记的记忆都是用英语来分类的。要放弃母语,不论是过去还是现在,我依然觉得像是做出了一个重大的决定。
Li writes that although she grew up in China, she’s only written professionally in English ― a fact that has caused some surprise and confusion. Though she notes it would be easy to assume that she left her home language for political reasons, as Vladimir Nabokov did, she delves into the thicket of personal history and emotional turmoil that motivated her. “Like all intimacies, the intimacy between one and one’s mother tongue can be comforting and irreplaceable,” she writes, “yet it can also demand more than what one is willing to give, or more than one is capable of giving.”
李翊雲写道,虽然她在中国长大,但她依然只用英语进行专业写作,而这一事实也使一些人觉得惊讶和困惑。虽然她表明,人们可能很容易认为她是因为政治原因才放弃母语的,就像弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫所做的那样,但她深入探究了那些激励她的个人经历以及情绪波动中的错综复杂。“就像所有的亲密关系,一个人和其母语之间的亲密可能会使人得到慰藉,且这种亲密是不可替代的,”她写道,“但这可能比一个人愿意给予,或者能够给予的,需要的更多。”
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