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迷蝶誌
「我們習慣了從我們的高度看世界，卻極少抬起頭來，注意到樹梢附近，那些僅僅三、四公分的華麗寶石。」在《迷蝶誌》中吳明益以文字、攝影及手繪插圖記錄了蝴蝶的種種姿態，並從中體悟到一種生命對待生命的方式，遠比判分兩種生物體間的差異來得更為急切。 人可以將蝶視為作物、獵物、研究物，人也可以將蝶當作朋友、愛侶、或陌生人，人也可以以觀賞的姿態，將蝶看作玩賞物。這些角色時常混雜，有時甚且共存而矛盾，因此充滿辯證。我結識蝴蝶時，蝴蝶並不知道我的機心，不知道我將以什麼角度、什麼手段去接近他們。這個選擇權在我們，在所有嘗試去接近自然生命的朋友們身上。
---------吳明益‧自序
長期以來真正且期望有人能夠以藝術、文學的角度去解析美妙的內涵，藉子深入多元化社會中不同領域的人群中，使蝴蝶保育成為廣泛人們的共識。這類做夢般的願望將由吳明益先生來實現。我深信，他能打開過去我努力進行蝴蝶保育推廣而無法滲入的另一群人們的心中，有助於全民關心象徵台灣的蝴蝶資源之保育推廣。
--------台灣蝴蝶學會會長 陳維壽
吳明益能從傳播廣告科系，投入中國文學研究所的浸染，意外的，側生迷蝶的胎變，丟給我春芽的喜悅，最重要的，他不像時下「成名的自然文學作家」，老是從怎麼吃、如何用的貧窮文化出發，玩弄些虛無縹緲的文字魔術，接受王永慶合成的塑膠桂冠，穩坐在都會叢林把玩「芬多精」。吳君接觸了真實的自然，也不得不自稱「溫和的人類中心主義」。
--------靜宜大學教授 陳玉峰
從自然寫作在台灣的發展來看，這一系列蝴蝶散文所蘊藏的成績和發展，恕我再襲用野外經常使用的語言：我又發現了另一個新品種。一個在這塊土地上經過許久才可能蘊育的種類。對我而言，吳明益的初航不只是美麗，方向也很準確。
--------自然文學作家 劉克襄
---------吳明益‧自序
長期以來真正且期望有人能夠以藝術、文學的角度去解析美妙的內涵，藉子深入多元化社會中不同領域的人群中，使蝴蝶保育成為廣泛人們的共識。這類做夢般的願望將由吳明益先生來實現。我深信，他能打開過去我努力進行蝴蝶保育推廣而無法滲入的另一群人們的心中，有助於全民關心象徵台灣的蝴蝶資源之保育推廣。
--------台灣蝴蝶學會會長 陳維壽
吳明益能從傳播廣告科系，投入中國文學研究所的浸染，意外的，側生迷蝶的胎變，丟給我春芽的喜悅，最重要的，他不像時下「成名的自然文學作家」，老是從怎麼吃、如何用的貧窮文化出發，玩弄些虛無縹緲的文字魔術，接受王永慶合成的塑膠桂冠，穩坐在都會叢林把玩「芬多精」。吳君接觸了真實的自然，也不得不自稱「溫和的人類中心主義」。
--------靜宜大學教授 陳玉峰
從自然寫作在台灣的發展來看，這一系列蝴蝶散文所蘊藏的成績和發展，恕我再襲用野外經常使用的語言：我又發現了另一個新品種。一個在這塊土地上經過許久才可能蘊育的種類。對我而言，吳明益的初航不只是美麗，方向也很準確。
--------自然文學作家 劉克襄
176 pages
Published August 1, 2000
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About the author
Wu Ming-Yi
19 books266 followers Writer, painter, designer, photographer, literary professor, butterfly scholar, environmental activist, traveler and blogger rolled into one, Wu Ming-Yi is very much a modern Renaissance Man. Over the last decade, he has produced an impressive body of work, especially with his fiction and nature writing.
Wu Ming-Yi (b.1971) studied advertising at Fu-Jen Catholic University and has a PhD in Chinese Literature from National Central University. He has been teaching literature and creative writing at Dong Hwa University since 2000 and is now Professor of the Department of Chinese.
Wu’s literary reputation was first established by his nature writing. In THE BOOK OF LOST BUTTERFLIES (2000) and THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES (2003), he chronicles his lifelong fascination with this beautiful creature and contemplates the invisible bond between man and nature. He wrote, designed, and provided drawings and photographs for the books, as if crafting works of art. Both books made the “Best of the Year” lists, with THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES winning China Times’ Open Book Award and being chosen as one of the ten most influential books by Kingstore Bookstore.
In 2006, juggling academic life and the need for a period of uninterrupted time for his writing and traveling, Wu decided to resign from his teaching post. This is unheard of in a country where almost no one can make a living writing full-time and many would fight for a stable teaching job. In the end, Dong Hwa University gave Wu a year of sabbatical leave – they didn't want to lose him.
A year later, Wu published two books: his third collection of nature writing, SO MUCH WATER SO CLOSE TO HOME, and his debut novel, ROUTES IN THE DREAM. DREAM re-imagines Taiwan’s complicated history as a Japanese colony and examines the relationship between fathers and sons, memory and dreams. Hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary historical fiction, it was nominated for every major award and was chosen as one of the ten best Chinese-language novels of the year by Asian Weekly magazine (along with Ai Mi’s Hawthorn Tree Forever, Liu Zhenyun’s My Name Is Liu Yuejin, and Dai Sijie’s Once on a Moonless Night) . Wu was the only Taiwanese author on the list.
It is his eco-fantasy novel THE MAN WITH THE COMPOUND EYES (2011), however, that has gained Wu international recognition, with major English and French translations appearing in 2013 and 2014. A “Taiwanese Life of Pi”, it is an ambitious exploration of Taiwan's island identity, the cost of environmental degradation, and how humans make sense of the world around them, at once poetic, philosophical and far-reaching. It has already caught the attention of major writers in the genre such as Ursula K. Le Guin.
Wu Ming-Yi (b.1971) studied advertising at Fu-Jen Catholic University and has a PhD in Chinese Literature from National Central University. He has been teaching literature and creative writing at Dong Hwa University since 2000 and is now Professor of the Department of Chinese.
Wu’s literary reputation was first established by his nature writing. In THE BOOK OF LOST BUTTERFLIES (2000) and THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES (2003), he chronicles his lifelong fascination with this beautiful creature and contemplates the invisible bond between man and nature. He wrote, designed, and provided drawings and photographs for the books, as if crafting works of art. Both books made the “Best of the Year” lists, with THE WAY OF BUTTERFLIES winning China Times’ Open Book Award and being chosen as one of the ten most influential books by Kingstore Bookstore.
In 2006, juggling academic life and the need for a period of uninterrupted time for his writing and traveling, Wu decided to resign from his teaching post. This is unheard of in a country where almost no one can make a living writing full-time and many would fight for a stable teaching job. In the end, Dong Hwa University gave Wu a year of sabbatical leave – they didn't want to lose him.
A year later, Wu published two books: his third collection of nature writing, SO MUCH WATER SO CLOSE TO HOME, and his debut novel, ROUTES IN THE DREAM. DREAM re-imagines Taiwan’s complicated history as a Japanese colony and examines the relationship between fathers and sons, memory and dreams. Hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary historical fiction, it was nominated for every major award and was chosen as one of the ten best Chinese-language novels of the year by Asian Weekly magazine (along with Ai Mi’s Hawthorn Tree Forever, Liu Zhenyun’s My Name Is Liu Yuejin, and Dai Sijie’s Once on a Moonless Night) . Wu was the only Taiwanese author on the list.
It is his eco-fantasy novel THE MAN WITH THE COMPOUND EYES (2011), however, that has gained Wu international recognition, with major English and French translations appearing in 2013 and 2014. A “Taiwanese Life of Pi”, it is an ambitious exploration of Taiwan's island identity, the cost of environmental degradation, and how humans make sense of the world around them, at once poetic, philosophical and far-reaching. It has already caught the attention of major writers in the genre such as Ursula K. Le Guin.
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