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博尔赫斯是20世纪最重要的作家吗?
Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?
导读
BBC 文化文章讨论博尔赫斯是否是 20 世纪最重要的作家;评论者围绕《虚构集》、思想谱系、翻译以及英语文学界对非英语作家的忽视展开。对写作者来说,这篇值得读,因为它把阅读、概念史和跨语言视野变成可操作的写作方法。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把《虚构集》作为博尔赫斯入门,注意他如何用多层线索组织思想。
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写作时可以追踪一个概念在多位作家、哲学家之间的流传与变形,用思想谱系代替孤立观点。
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不要只读英语作家,主动引入非英语文学参照,能扩大写作视野。
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写文化题材时,可像博尔赫斯诗歌那样并置不同阶层或群体的视角,让文本承载文化细节。
HN 评论精选
博尔赫斯通过追踪概念的流传与变形来组织思想,这种写法能训练批判性和连贯性思考。
我主修西班牙文学和哲学,写过不少关于博尔赫斯的内容,想以他写论文,具体关注翻译如何影响他的作品和观点——可以说把翻译视为艺术。我没读研究生,但继续写原本要作为论文的内容。它远未完成,但如果只能推荐一本书,我会说读《虚构集》。博尔赫斯有不同的层次,也有许许多多读法;如果只给一个理由说明他为何是有史以来最伟大的人物之一,那就是他追踪一个概念或思想如何在不同的头脑(作家、哲学家、历史人物、文学人物等)帮助下被发展或创造出来。他不总明确指出是谁,但正如文章所说,他所写的一切(有时所说的一切)都是他思想的线索。他试图通过组织某个概念如何从作者传到作者、如何变异,来理解整段历史和整个世界。这对我们有什么价值?因为发展一个思想或概念的行为教会我们如何批判性、连贯地思考,寻找错误是如何发生的,并在把两个总体想法连接起来时看到更大的图景。或者这一切都只是玩笑。
kafkaesque查看英文原文
I majored in Spanish literature and philosophy. I wrote quite a bit on Borges and wanted to write my thesis on him (more specifically, how translation affected his work and views--translation as art, if you will). I never went to graduate school, but I continued writing what was going to be my thesis. It's nowhere near finished but if I can make one book recommendation I would say read Ficciones. There are different layers to Borges and many, many, many ways to read him, but if I can give you one single reason why this writer is one of the greatest figures of all time, it is because he traces how a concept or thought was developed or created with the help of different minds (writers, philosophers, historical figures, literary figures, etc.). He doesn't always explicitly indicate who, but, as the article says, everything he wrote (and sometimes said) was a clue to what he was thinking. He was trying to make sense of an entire history and an entire world by organising how a particular concept was handed down from author to author and how it was mutated. Why is this of value to us? Because the act of developing a thought or a concept teaches us how to think critically and coherently, looking for how mistakes were done and seeing the bigger picture when linking two general thoughts together. Or it could all have been in jest.
英语文学圈应更关注非英语作家,博尔赫斯和佩索阿就是例证。
英国文学文化对其它语言作家漠不关心,这一点让我不安。博尔赫斯一直是我最好的例子,另一个是葡萄牙诗人费尔南多·佩索阿。你认为还有哪些非英语作家应得到更多世界关注?
diego_moita查看英文原文
One thing that bothers me about the English literary culture is how indifferent it is to writers in other languages. Borges always was my best example. Another one is the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. What other non-english writers do you think should receive more world attention?
博尔赫斯的诗歌可作为了解阿根廷不同阶层文化的窗口。
至少他是我的最爱。我 16 岁发现他,立刻决定读他写的一切。他真是富有想象力、了不起的人。他的诗歌也非常棒,提供了了解阿根廷文化的有趣视角,既有高乔人也有上层阶级。
hderms查看英文原文
At the very least, he's my favorite. Discovered him when I was about 16 and immediately decided to read everything he ever wrote. Truly an imaginative and amazing man. Also his poetry is really incredible and offers an interesting look into Argentinian culture, both Gaucho and upper class.
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