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郵票

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劉以鬯是香港現代文學巨攣。先後於中國內地、香港和新馬編輯多種文學剛刊、雜誌,並不輟創作、迻譯逾一甲子,發表「娛人」「娛己」文字數千萬言,有與眾不同的精選大型文集十二卷存世。他還長年雅好集郵票、賞陶瓷、砌模型,調劑生活,且尚以之為題材,刻繪塵間別樣面相,豐富了香港文學寶藏。

《郵票》是繼一九七一年報載、七九年結集的《陶瓷》後,又一描述慾望撥弄人性使之跌宕反復的長篇。全文五十餘萬字,初發於一九七一至七三年《明報晚報》,乃劉先生最長的小說,今首度成書。作者凡事認真,善用光陰心智,把業餘興趣推向極致,玩出專家水準,而後形諸筆端,不啻給熱愛文藝的奮發後秀作了示範。
——梅子

我們知道作者熱愛集郵,但讀了《郵票》才明白那甚至可說是沉迷。如數家珍的郵學資料,本港和各地郵票市場的運作和動向,集郵者和郵商的機心計算,一一為小說提供了與《酒徒》、《對倒》等迴然不同的實感。最妙趣的是主角夫妻對郵票和股票的態度移形換影,戲劇化地保存了七十年代香港的時代色彩。

《郵票》更是一部慾望之書。主角用種種理由滔滔雄辯支持自己的蒐集慾:高尚的興趣、穩賺的投資……但隨着情節發展都不攻自破,最後他憬然大悟,「我見到郵票時,就無法保持理智的清醒了」。慾望的本體只能是慾望本身,可以用品味、收益來衡量,就不是真正的慾望了。小說看似結束得有些倉卒,也許因為剛刊改版或老闆指示,但慾望從來不可能圓滿,不圓滿不正是《郵票》最理想的結局?

無論就劉以鬯的小說或香港報紙的連載而言,《郵票》都是不容遺忘的異數。

《郵票》成書,讓今天的讀者既對劉以鬯怎樣追求與眾不同,增加了一個嶄新的觀察角度,也能藉此窺見香港副刊文化如日方中時代的廣闊包容。——樊善標

Published December 1, 2024

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Liu Yichang

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Liu Tongyi was a Chinese novelist, essayist, poet and literary critic who writes under the pseudonym Liu Yichang (劉以鬯). He did not grow up in Hong Kong but spent the first thirty years of his life either there or in the wartime capital Chungking, where he went upon graduating from the English-speaking St John's University in 1941. It was in Chungking that he took up the profession of newspaper editing which he practised more or less continuously until his retirement in 1991. Liu came to Hong Kong in 1948, and apart from a spell in Singapore and Malaya (1952-1957), has made it his home.

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Liu Tongyi (chino mandarín) o Lau Tung-yik (chino cantonés), nacido en Shanghai el 7 de diciembre de 1918, es un escritor chino, autor de novelas, cuentos, poesía y crítica literaria, firma con el seudónimo Liu Yichang (chino mandarín) o Lau Yee-cheung (chino cantonés). Una de sus más notables novelas de monólogo interior: Intersección (對倒) inspiró Deseando amar de Wong Kar-wai.

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