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辛波絲卡‧最後
諾貝爾文學獎得主辛波絲卡，生前最後一部詩集，及其他詩新譯。
「我偏愛寫詩的荒謬，勝過不寫詩的荒謬……」──辛波絲卡
我們每個人都有自己的地獄，
但辛波絲卡的詩，是一個又一個無垠與寬容的宇宙，
……這便是我如此重視「我不知道」這短短數字的原因了。這辭彙雖小，卻張著強而有力的翅膀飛翔。它擴大我們的生活領域，使之涵蓋我們內在的心靈空間，也涵蓋我們渺小地球懸浮其間的廣袤宇宙。……詩人──真正的詩人──也必須不斷地說「我不知道」。──一九九六年獲諾貝爾文學獎時，辛波絲卡的得獎辭。
只要活著，我們每個人就都是從地獄歸來的倖存者。
辛波絲卡以獨特視角的敏銳喉嚨，為我們吶喊出人生承受的所有針尖。那些跌撞，瀕危，瘡孔等人生各種險灘，那些無常，死亡，時間，記憶，愛等亙古命題，辛波絲卡都以獨特的視角、清澈易讀的文字、精準的剪裁，細細織就。
但更高明的是，她讓細節成為煉火，滾燙於我們眉宇間；她不直接書寫同情與憐憫，也不輕易二分黑白，她只是在我們每個人的記憶沃土栽植新株，繁衍出一片療癒森林，一如人生將如碎屑飄落，但轉角陌生人的笑容卻讓我們暖。
對孩子而言：第一個世界末日。
對貓而言：新的男主人。
對狗而言：新的女主人。
對家具而言：樓梯，砰砰聲，卡車與運送。
對牆壁而言：畫作取下後留下的方塊。
對樓下鄰居而言：稍解生之無聊的新話題。
對車而言：如果有兩部就好了。
對小說、詩集而言——可以，你要的都拿走。
百科全書和影音器材的情況就比較糟了，
還有那本《正確拼寫指南》，裡頭
大概對兩個名字的用法略有指點——
依然用「和」連接呢
還是用句點分開。
──〈離婚〉
「我偏愛寫詩的荒謬，勝過不寫詩的荒謬……」──辛波絲卡
我們每個人都有自己的地獄，
但辛波絲卡的詩，是一個又一個無垠與寬容的宇宙，
……這便是我如此重視「我不知道」這短短數字的原因了。這辭彙雖小，卻張著強而有力的翅膀飛翔。它擴大我們的生活領域，使之涵蓋我們內在的心靈空間，也涵蓋我們渺小地球懸浮其間的廣袤宇宙。……詩人──真正的詩人──也必須不斷地說「我不知道」。──一九九六年獲諾貝爾文學獎時，辛波絲卡的得獎辭。
只要活著，我們每個人就都是從地獄歸來的倖存者。
辛波絲卡以獨特視角的敏銳喉嚨，為我們吶喊出人生承受的所有針尖。那些跌撞，瀕危，瘡孔等人生各種險灘，那些無常，死亡，時間，記憶，愛等亙古命題，辛波絲卡都以獨特的視角、清澈易讀的文字、精準的剪裁，細細織就。
但更高明的是，她讓細節成為煉火，滾燙於我們眉宇間；她不直接書寫同情與憐憫，也不輕易二分黑白，她只是在我們每個人的記憶沃土栽植新株，繁衍出一片療癒森林，一如人生將如碎屑飄落，但轉角陌生人的笑容卻讓我們暖。
對孩子而言：第一個世界末日。
對貓而言：新的男主人。
對狗而言：新的女主人。
對家具而言：樓梯，砰砰聲，卡車與運送。
對牆壁而言：畫作取下後留下的方塊。
對樓下鄰居而言：稍解生之無聊的新話題。
對車而言：如果有兩部就好了。
對小說、詩集而言——可以，你要的都拿走。
百科全書和影音器材的情況就比較糟了，
還有那本《正確拼寫指南》，裡頭
大概對兩個名字的用法略有指點——
依然用「和」連接呢
還是用句點分開。
──〈離婚〉
224 pages
Published February 12, 2019
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About the author
Wisława Szymborska
211 books1,574 followersWisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation: [vʲisˈwava ʂɨmˈbɔrska], born July 2, 1923 in Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors—although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" [Niektórzy lubią poezję] that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art.
Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. Szymborska's compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles, touching on issues of ethical import, and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as members of human society. Szymborska's style is succinct and marked by introspection and wit.
Szymborska's reputation rests on a relatively small body of work: she has not published more than 250 poems to date. She is often described as modest to the point of shyness[citation needed]. She has long been cherished by Polish literary contemporaries (including Czesław Miłosz) and her poetry has been set to music by Zbigniew Preisner. Szymborska became better known internationally after she was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize. Szymborska's work has been translated into many European languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese.
In 1931, Szymborska's family moved to Kraków. She has been linked with this city, where she studied, worked.
When World War II broke out in 1939, she continued her education in underground lessons. From 1943, she worked as a railroad employee and managed to avoid being deported to Germany as a forced labourer. It was during this time that her career as an artist began with illustrations for an English-language textbook. She also began writing stories and occasional poems.
Beginning in 1945, Szymborska took up studies of Polish language and literature before switching to sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. There she soon became involved in the local writing scene, and met and was influenced by Czesław Miłosz. In March 1945, she published her first poem Szukam słowa ("I seek the word") in the daily paper Dziennik Polski; her poems continued to be published in various newspapers and periodicals for a number of years. In 1948 she quit her studies without a degree, due to her poor financial circumstances; the same year, she married poet Adam Włodek, whom she divorced in 1954. At that time, she was working as a secretary for an educational biweekly magazine as well as an illustrator.
During Stalinism in Poland in 1953 she participated in the defamation of Catholic priests from Kraków who were groundlessly condemned by the ruling Communists to death.[1] Her first book was to be published in 1949, but did not pass censorship as it "did not meet socialist requirements." Like many other intellectuals in post-war Poland, however, Szymborska remained loyal to the PRL official ideology early in her career, signing political petitions and praising Stalin, Lenin and the realities of socialism. This attitude is seen in her debut collection Dlatego żyjemy ("That is what we are living for"), containing the poems Lenin and Młodzieży budującej Nową Hutę ("For the Youth that Builds Nowa Huta"), about the construction of a Stalinist industrial town near Kraków. She also became a member of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party.
Like many Polish intellectuals initially close to the official party line, Szymborska gradually grew estranged from socialist ideology and renounced her earlier political work. Although she did not officially leave the party until 1966, she began to establish contacts with dissidents. As early as 1957, she befriended Jerzy Giedroyc, the editor of the influential Paris-based emigré journal Kultura, to which she also contributed. In 1964 s
Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. Szymborska's compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles, touching on issues of ethical import, and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as members of human society. Szymborska's style is succinct and marked by introspection and wit.
Szymborska's reputation rests on a relatively small body of work: she has not published more than 250 poems to date. She is often described as modest to the point of shyness[citation needed]. She has long been cherished by Polish literary contemporaries (including Czesław Miłosz) and her poetry has been set to music by Zbigniew Preisner. Szymborska became better known internationally after she was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize. Szymborska's work has been translated into many European languages, as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese.
In 1931, Szymborska's family moved to Kraków. She has been linked with this city, where she studied, worked.
When World War II broke out in 1939, she continued her education in underground lessons. From 1943, she worked as a railroad employee and managed to avoid being deported to Germany as a forced labourer. It was during this time that her career as an artist began with illustrations for an English-language textbook. She also began writing stories and occasional poems.
Beginning in 1945, Szymborska took up studies of Polish language and literature before switching to sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. There she soon became involved in the local writing scene, and met and was influenced by Czesław Miłosz. In March 1945, she published her first poem Szukam słowa ("I seek the word") in the daily paper Dziennik Polski; her poems continued to be published in various newspapers and periodicals for a number of years. In 1948 she quit her studies without a degree, due to her poor financial circumstances; the same year, she married poet Adam Włodek, whom she divorced in 1954. At that time, she was working as a secretary for an educational biweekly magazine as well as an illustrator.
During Stalinism in Poland in 1953 she participated in the defamation of Catholic priests from Kraków who were groundlessly condemned by the ruling Communists to death.[1] Her first book was to be published in 1949, but did not pass censorship as it "did not meet socialist requirements." Like many other intellectuals in post-war Poland, however, Szymborska remained loyal to the PRL official ideology early in her career, signing political petitions and praising Stalin, Lenin and the realities of socialism. This attitude is seen in her debut collection Dlatego żyjemy ("That is what we are living for"), containing the poems Lenin and Młodzieży budującej Nową Hutę ("For the Youth that Builds Nowa Huta"), about the construction of a Stalinist industrial town near Kraków. She also became a member of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party.
Like many Polish intellectuals initially close to the official party line, Szymborska gradually grew estranged from socialist ideology and renounced her earlier political work. Although she did not officially leave the party until 1966, she began to establish contacts with dissidents. As early as 1957, she befriended Jerzy Giedroyc, the editor of the influential Paris-based emigré journal Kultura, to which she also contributed. In 1964 s
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