Dec. 22: Diocletian, George Eliot, 殷張蘭熙

中華民國筆會敬悼本會前會長/季刊主編
殷張蘭熙女士


本會前會長/季刊主編、國際筆會終身副會長，殷張蘭熙女士﹙1920.9.12─2017.12.22﹚於12月22日安詳辭世，得年九十八歲。


蘭熙女士一生致力於推動台灣文學與國際之交流。1972年林語堂先生主持中華民國筆會期間創刊筆會英文季刊 Journal of Contemporary Chinese Literature from Taiwan，即由蘭熙女士擔任主編。期間蘭熙女士執筆英譯推廣台灣當代文學，長達20年，至1992年由齊邦媛女士接任。

1985年至1991年蘭熙女士擔任本會會長，廣交國際文壇友人。當時中國大陸代表在大會中多次排擠我方，蘭熙女士義正辭嚴，保衛我代表權，並爭取國際間對台灣的支持，其誠懇堅定獲得國際筆會高度敬重，1990年在葡萄牙舉辦的第55屆國際筆會年會中，女士獲選為國際筆會終身副會長，是台灣繼林語堂先生之後得此殊榮之第二人。

1977年，本會邀請擔任國際筆會會長之祕魯作家尤薩﹙後於2010年獲諾貝爾文學獎﹚訪台，蘭熙女士陪同會晤嚴家淦總統。蘭熙女士與齊邦媛、林文月、林海音四人因文友而成莫逆，四人聚會是文壇津津樂道的美好風景。四人情誼也散見在各自的回憶文章中。齊邦媛教授《一生中的一天》書中的〈蘭熙〉一文，有動人描述。

1978年蘭熙女士和夫婿殷之浩先生為紀念父親殷鑄夫先生，設立「浩然基金會」（鑄夫先生民初曾在東京設立「浩然廬」，照顧因反袁世凱而流亡日本的青年），並由蘭熙女士擔任董事長主持會務，致力於推廣教育文化與公益。基金會長期贊助中華民國筆會，使筆會會務與季刊出版得以順利推動，也使台灣文學在國際間能持續發聲。

蘭熙女士1992年後漸患失憶，由子女安排赴美療養逾十載，2006年返台居家安養，由新光醫院醫療團隊提供完善的保健醫療服務，本月22日安詳辭世。遵從女士遺願，家屬與筆會均不舉行追悼儀式。

中華民國筆會與蘭熙女士淵源深厚，受惠良多，亦見證她在推動國際交流、折衝樽俎之貢獻。而今蘭熙女士已在她奉獻一生的台灣土地上安息，筆會在此謹表達對蘭熙女士永遠的感懷與追念。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss(1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's lifetime, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her adulterous relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.^[1]

Eliot's Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis^[2] and Julian Barnes^[3] as the greatest novel in the English language.

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• 1Life
  • 1.1Early life and education
  • 1.2Move to Coventry
  • 1.3Move to London and editorship of the Westminster Review
  • 1.4Relationship with George Lewes
  • 1.5First publication
  • 1.6Marriage to John Cross and death
• 2Literary assessment
• 3Works
  • 3.1Novels
  • 3.2Poetry
  • 3.3Other
• 4Notes
• 5Further reading
  • 5.1Context and background
  • 5.2Critical studies
• 6External links

Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, died in Chelsea, Middlesex, England on this day in 1880 (aged 61).

"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
—from MIDDLEMARCH (1871)

One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, MIDDLEMARCH is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits. In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot’s large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature. As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot “was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.” READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/middlemarch-…/hardcover



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Hanching Chung 分享了 British Museum 的相片。

2014年12月23日 10:04 · 

戴克里先（250年－312年，拉丁語：Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus）。
在305年，戴克里先五十五歲時，在經過長期的病困後，戴克里先選擇退休，居住在權力中心，濱臨亞得里亞海的索羅那附近的宮殿裡，並在該地實踐其最大的興趣——種捲心菜。在其後有人曾要求其重登帝位，卻被其斷然拒絕，並回覆道：「當閣下看對在下於索羅那親手栽種的蔬菜時，閣下便不會再提出這種要求。」是唯一一位自願放棄帝位與權力的羅馬皇帝；所有其他皇帝不是自然死亡，就是被人除去。

British Museum

2014年12月23日 1:30 · 

The Roman emperor Diocletian was born #onthisday in AD 244. This coin commemorates his retirement http://ow.ly/GbzYw

Diocletian - Wikipedia

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