这部小说不是苦难本身的简单堆积,而是一次对苦难剖析的尝试。作者试着用清晰的思路解读苦难的事实,他的解读因为这个论断而得到深化:即坚持不懈的尝试本身是值得的。从这个层面上讲,读《活着》带来的满足感可与阅读存在哲学相提并论,但要留意那些情感丰盛的抓人字句,它们可能会让你的感情决堤、彻底击垮你的内心防线,这是我的切身感受。当时,我在一次公路旅行中读了这本书,看到动情处眼泪便像决了堤的洪水,那情景让与我结伴而行的人不知所措。他们之中没有一个人认识余华,所以我只能指着手中的书说,“讲的是中国,伙计。”
Endure
(英译本)
'Endure,' Bei Dao
作者:北岛
Clean-voiced lutes and lantern-lit parties on the water have not been the concern of Chinese poets for over a century, and yet they still seem to invade the imagination whenever the term 'Chinese poetry' is introduced in English-speaking contexts. This is unfair and a great shame. Just as classical Chinese poetry, its subject matter and aesthetic precepts, invigorated English-language poetry in the mid-1900s, the poetry of contemporary China has the power to uncover new paths of focus for poets today. Former exile poet Bei Dao is by far the best-known of Chinese poets since 1978, and the quality of his work is recognized by poets both within China and without. He has spoken as the oracle of the conflicted zeitgeist of a modernizing China, while his poetics have stepped past the fashions of his time into new territory.
【外媒认为不该错过的五本中国书】相关文章:
最新
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15