n. 仁慈,好意
A person can experience only so much, and once you have exhausted your own stories, you must tell the stories of others. And so, out of the depths of my memories, like conscripted soldiers, rose stories of family members, of fellow villagers, and of long-dead ancestors I learned of from the mouths of old-timers. They waited expectantly for me to tell their stories. My grandfather and grandmother, my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, my aunts and uncles, my wife and my daughter have all appeared in my stories. Even unrelated residents of Northeast Gaomi Township have made cameo appearances. Of course they have undergone literary modification to transform them into larger-than-life fictional characters.
我最新的小說《蛙》中,就出現了我姑姑的形象。因為我獲得諾貝爾獎,許多記者到她家采訪,起初她還很耐心地回答提問,但很快便不勝其煩,跑到縣城里她兒子家躲起來了。姑姑確實是我寫《蛙》時的模特,但小說中的姑姑,與現實生活中的姑姑有著天壤之別。小說中的姑姑專橫跋扈,有時簡直像個女匪,現實中的姑姑和善開朗,是一個標準的賢妻良母。現實中的姑姑晚年生活幸福美滿,小說中的姑姑到了晚年卻因為心靈的巨大痛苦患上了失眠癥,身披黑袍,像個幽靈一樣在暗夜中游蕩。我感謝姑姑的寬容,她沒有因為我在小說中把她寫成那樣而生氣;我也十分敬佩我姑姑的明智,她正確地理解了小說中人物與現實中人物的復雜關系。
An aunt of mine is the central character of my latest novel, Frogs. The announcement of the Nobel Prize sent journalists swarming to her home with interview requests. At first, she was patiently accommodating, but she soon had to escape their attentions by fleeing to her son’s home in the provincial capital. I don’t deny that she was my model in writing Frogs, but the differences between her and the fictional aunt are extensive. The fictional aunt is arrogant and domineering, in places virtually thuggish, while my real aunt is kind and gentle, the classic caring wife and loving mother. My real aunt’s golden years have been happy and fulfilling; her fictional counterpart suffers insomnia in her late years as a result of spiritual torment, and walks the nights like a specter, wearing a dark robe. I am grateful to my real aunt for not being angry with me for how I changed her in the novel. I also greatly respect her wisdom in comprehending the complex relationship between fictional characters and real people.
母親去世后,我悲痛萬分,決定寫一部書獻給她。這就是那本《豐乳肥臀》。因為胸有成竹,因為情感充盈,僅用了83 天,我便寫出了這部長達50 萬字的小說的初稿。
After my mother died, in the midst of almost crippling grief, I decided to write a novel for her. Big Breasts and Wide Hips is that novel. Once my plan took shape, I was burning with such emotion that I completed a draft of half a million words in only eighty-three days.
在《豐乳肥臀》這本書里,我肆無忌憚地使用了與我母親的親身經歷有關的素材,但書中的母親情感方面的經歷,則是虛構或取材于高密東北鄉諸多母親的經歷。在這本書的卷前語上,我寫下了“獻給母親在天之靈”的話,但這本書,實際上是獻給天下母親的,這是我狂妄的野心,就像我希望把小小的“高密東北鄉”寫成中國乃至世界的縮影一樣。
In Big Breasts and Wide Hips I shamelessly used material associated with my mother’s actual experience, but the fictional mother’s emotional state is either a total fabrication or a composite of many of Northeast Gaomi Township’s mothers. Though I wrote “To the spirit of my mother” on the dedication page, the novel was really written for all mothers everywhere, evidence, perhaps, of my overweening ambition, in much the same way as I hope to make tiny Northeast Gaomi Township a microcosm of China, even of the whole world.
作家的創作過程各有特色,我每本書的構思與靈感觸發也都不盡相同。有的小說起源于夢境,譬如《透明的紅蘿卜》,有的小說則發端于現實生活中發生的事件——譬如《天堂蒜薹之歌》。但無論是起源于夢境還是發端于現實,最后都必須和個人的經驗相結合,才有可能變成一部具有鮮明個性的,用無數生動細節塑造出了典型人物的、語言豐富多彩、結構匠心獨運的文學作品。有必要特別提及的是,在《天堂蒜薹之歌》中,我讓一個真正的說書人登場,并在書中扮演了十分重要的角色。我十分抱歉地使用了這個說書人真實姓名,當然,他在書中的所有行為都是虛構。在我的寫作中,出現過多次這樣的現象,寫作之初,我使用他們的真實姓名,希望能借此獲得一種親近感,但作品完成之后,我想為他們改換姓名時卻感到已經不可能了,因此也發生過與我小說中人物同名者找到我父親發泄不滿的事情,我父親替我向他們道歉,但同時又開導他們不要當真。我父親說:“他在《紅高粱》中,第一句就說‘我父親這個土匪種’,我都不在意你們還在意什么?”
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avenge | [ə'vendʒ] |
想一想再看 vt. 為 ... 報復,報仇 |
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fanciful | ['fænsifəl] |
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popular | ['pɔpjulə] |
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unspoken | [,ʌn'spəukən] |
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supreme | [sju:'pri:m] |
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uphold | [ʌp'həuld] |
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crouch | [krautʃ] |
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limited | ['limitid] |
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