走在死亡与爱情前面的声音（诺奖作品双语选读）_美文

走在死亡与爱情前面的声音（诺奖作品双语选读）

前面说过，她是白俄罗斯女作家，做过很多年的记者，最为人熟知的作品是《战争的非女性面孔（War's Unwomanly Face）》、《锌皮娃娃兵（Zinky Boys: The Record of a Lost Soviet Generation）》、《切尔诺贝利的回忆：核灾难口述史（Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster）》，文中都是她走访战争和灾难亲历者的口述故事，在文学化的诺贝尔文学奖里，又一次见证了纪实（nonfiction）文学的胜利~

其中《切尔诺贝利的回忆》经过编译，中译本《我不知道该说什么，关于死亡还是爱情》已为国人熟知。今天小编选了一段跟大家分享，希望透过文字，可以感受到“她的复调书写，是对我们时代的苦难和勇气的纪念（for her polyphonic writings, describing them as a “monument to suffering and courage in our time）。”

A SOLITARY HUMAN VOICE

孤单的人声

We are air, we are not earth...

我们是空气，我们不是土地……

—M. Mamardashvili

——马马达舒维利

I don't know what I should talk about—about death or about love? Or are they the same? Which one should I talk about?

我不知道该说什么，关于死亡还是爱情？也许两者是一样的？我该讲哪一种？

We were newlyweds. We still walked around holding hands, even if we were just going to the store. I would say to him, "I love you." But I didn't know then how much. I had no idea... We lived in the dormitory of the fire station where he worked. On the second floor. There were three other young couples, we all shared a kitchen. On the first floor they kept the trucks. The red fire trucks. That was his job. I always knew what was happening—where he was, how he was.