川流复始：理查德·艾尔曼随笔

by Richard Ellmann, 理查德·艾尔曼, 陈以侃 (Translator)

理查德·艾尔曼是美国著名学者、文学批评家，凭借三部重磅传记《叶芝：真人与假面》《乔伊斯传》（美国国家图书奖）和《王尔德传》（普利策传记奖）跻身二十世纪现代主义文学研究巨擘之列。《川流复始》是艾尔曼生前亲自编选的文集，收录了他历年来最富代表性的文学评论和随笔。通过此书，我 们看到艾尔曼不仅擅长鸿篇巨制，也是专题文章的大家。在本书中，艾尔曼以渊博的学识、潇洒的才情和广阔的眼界，回顾了庞德在艾略特《荒原》诞生过程中的作用，考察了弗洛伊德对现代文学难以界定的影响，追忆了青年时代与叶芝遗孀的交往，当然，还有他的最爱，乔伊斯——书名“川流复始”（a long the riverrun）即源于连接《芬尼根守灵夜》开头与结尾的词组。

如果我们必须受苦，那就不妨在一个我们自己创造的世界里受苦，这对于英雄是自然而然不自知的，艺术家是故意为之，而所有人或多或少都会这样做。

Genres: Literary Criticism, Literature

500 pages, Hardcover

First published March 25, 1989

About the author

Richard David Ellmann was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century.

Reviews

[Jen H · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book from a clearance table at a bookstore many a year ago, when I was in the heyday of my James Joyce mania. Ellmann is a foremost Joyce scholar and I soaked up these essays like a sponge, helping me to understand Joyce (and Yeats and some other favorites he writes about).