出版与作家生涯2019theguardian.com
J.D.塞林格未发表作品将出版,家人确认
JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
导读
这条讨论围绕《卫报》报道的塞林格未公开遗作即将出版的消息展开。对写作者的价值在于:它提醒我们,作家生前不愿发表的作品未必是珍宝;读者对"禁书"的渴望常常盖过对文本本身的判断。评论里既有对遗稿出版伦理的质疑,也有对塞林格晚期作品的实际阅读反馈。
可以直接用的写作要点
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别把"未发表"当成"更好"的同义词——遗稿往往是被作者本人筛掉的东西,读它可以研究,但不必迷信。
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塞林格晚期作品《Hapworth 16, 1924》被批评为自我模仿,提醒我们:一个作家过度重复自己的风格,会滑向腔调化。
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写作时要警惕"角色说出远超其年龄的话"这类失真,评论者正是以此批评塞林格晚期作品的。
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面对"禁书""遗稿"这类话题,先问它对我的写作有什么具体启发,再决定要不要花时间读。
HN 评论精选
遗稿出版的伦理争议与读者的窥探欲并存。
这让我想起 Prince 那些从保险库流出的旧录音。一方面,家属或版权方违背逝者意愿发布这些东西,让人觉得不妥;另一方面,我又真的很想要那些"禁忌"的内容。
ryanmcbride查看英文原文
This gives me the same feeling as all these old Prince recordings from his vault coming out. On one hand it feels wrong on the part of the family/rights owners to release this stuff against the wishes of the deceased, but on the other hand I really want that forbidden media.
塞林格晚期作品自我重复、角色失真,遗作未必值得读。
建议有兴趣的人去读《Hapworth 16, 1924》,那是他最后发表的短篇。我找来读完之后觉得……不值得花那个时间。文中被批评得最狠的一段占了约四分之一篇幅,全是 Seymour 那份荒唐且完全不符合年龄的索书单:托尔斯泰全集、关于人体旋转的书、蒙田随笔的法文版和 Cotton 先生的译本等等。读者自慎。
acqq查看英文原文
For anybody who is possibly interested, I suggest trying to read "Hapworth 16, 1924" (the last story he published). To me, after trying (I've found the whole story)... it's just... not worth the time. https://themillions.com/2015/06/hapworth-revisited-on-j-d-salingers-most-inscrutable-short-story.html "One of the most critically derided passages of the story takes up around a quarter its length and consists entirely of Seymour’s absurd and entirely age inappropriate list of requested reading material: “the complete works again of Count Leo Tolstoy […] any thoughtful books on human whirling or spinning […and] both the French edition and Mr. Cotton’s wonderful translation of Montaigne’s essays.”" caveat lector.
未刊稿曾以泄露形式流出,包括《麦田》前传。
我记得他的一些未发表作品曾在 what.cd 上被泄露,我当时读过一些;只要肯挖,网上应该还能找到镜像。泄露内容里包括《The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls》,据说是《麦田里的守望者》的前传。泄露者还声称有人为泄露它悬赏高达 6TB。
vichu查看英文原文
I recall reading some of his unpublished writings after they were leaked on what.cd, and I'm sure if you dig around some you'd be able to find mirrors somewhere on the web. Included in the leak was "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls", the supposed prequel to "Catcher in the Rye". The leaker claimed something like a 6TB(!) bounty for leaking it too.
原报道不如其子访谈有信息量(此条偏编辑说明,可略)。
我们把链接从《卫报》那篇报道换成了这篇更有意思的对塞林格儿子的采访。
dang查看英文原文
We changed the URL from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/01/jd-salingers-unseen-writings-to-be-published-family-confirms to the much more interesting interview with the son.
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