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Jan. 29: Romain Rolland, 契訶夫 Anton Chekhov、鄧麗君,Robert Lee Frost


Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America.Wikipedia

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.


幕后故事

1963年的今天,美国著名诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特于波士顿的一家医院去世。
1963年的今天,美国著名诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特于波士顿的一家医院去世。 Sam Falk/The New York Times
他生于旧金山,以一位南部联邦的将军的名字命名。但他去世时,却是作为一名备受美国及其人民推崇的诗人他尤其受到新英格兰地区那些坚毅的农民的拥簇。
一生充满矛盾的罗伯特·弗罗斯特(Robert Frost)于1963年的今天,在波士顿的一家医院中去世。是一名对自然和人类精神颇有天赋的观察者,曾四次获得普利策奖(Pulitzer Prizes),还曾于1961年约翰·F·肯尼迪(John F. Kennedy)的就职典礼上发表演说。
弗罗斯特在佛蒙特州及新罕布什尔州生活多年,起初,他是一名农民,还做过记者和鞋匠。他的诗歌,包括《未选择的路》(The Road Not Taken)《雪夜林边小驻》(Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening)运用了通俗的语言,并且在那些渴望田园生活朴素之处的城市一代中深得人心。
“我不喜欢写任何我看不到的东西,”他在88岁生日前夕说道。
但他“对土地上的生活不存幻想”,1963年,时报在他去世后一天写到,这部分是因为他知道,它“无论在精神上还是身体上都会令人疲惫”。



【燦爛的星辰】1月29日壽星:契訶夫、羅曼羅蘭

 2018-01-29 09:30
【燦爛的星辰】129日壽星:

中國有契訶夫短篇小說全集。
契訶夫(俄語:Антон Павлович Чехов)
「到處都得有為個人的神聖權利的奮鬥,如果不要這種奮鬥,那就是不道德。」——契訶夫 
俄國的劇作家、短篇小說作家契訶夫於1860年的今天出生於俄羅斯塔甘羅格的一個農奴家庭。有著不快樂的童年,除了曾經在父親的雜貨店幹活,也過著家人為躲債而搬遷的日子。1844年畢業於莫斯科大學醫學系,成為醫生。行醫之餘,從事寫作。
契訶夫早期作品詼諧幽默,塑造具有典型性格的小人物,注重描寫俄國人民的日常生活。1890年初,為了躲避都市的喧囂,他獨自去庫頁島從事社會考察,此行之後讓他開始關信現實政治,對貧苦人民的深切同情。短篇小說和戲劇開始「量產」。綜合其作品,有的反映底層人民的悲慘生活、有的刻畫沙俄專制制度下的黑暗與虛偽、他諷刺見風使舵的「變色龍」、對社會醜惡現象的嘲笑,反映工農階級的鬥爭…。他的劇作也對20世紀戲劇產生了很大的影響。他的作品極具藝術性,同時也是瞭解沙俄社會的生動史料。

Playwright and short story writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog, Russia on this day in 1860.
"It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others’ expense."
—from "My Life" by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe—the most lyrical of the five—is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures—a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility—on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-complete-short-no…/



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 Romain Rolland 的戲劇,多有中文翻譯,有教授致力於此。
李筱峰的介紹,偏重傅雷的翻譯,它們影響約2代的人。現在連長篇小說《約翰克利斯多夫》都有另一中文譯本 (日文有3個譯本)。 Romain Rolland 的音樂雜記或論文,也有中譯。
據Wikipedia,Romain Rolland 的全集31卷,有第3次全集日文版。著書:主な著述を執筆年順に列記する。各列末尾の「全」以下の括弧書きは、みすず書房の第3次全集(1979年 - 1985年)における収録巻数と翻訳者である。
英文Wikipedia又稱 Romain Rolland為神秘學家,並有專文簡介他與S. Freud的通信及討論:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_feeling
曾有 Romain Rolland之友協會並有刊物發行至80年代中。


Romain Rolland
French dramatist
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production ...Wikipedia
BornJanuary 29, 1866, Clamecy, Nièvre, France
DiedDecember 30, 1944, Vézelay, France

A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

法國作家羅曼羅蘭(Romain Rolland)
「藝術的道德精神,在於愛善、愛美、愛生活」——羅曼羅蘭
20世紀的法國著名作家、音樂評論家,也是傳記作家羅曼羅蘭,於1866年的今天出生。1889年畢業於巴黎高等師範學院史學系,之後去羅馬深造,回來後,在巴黎大學教授藝術史,並開始寫作。一次世界大戰時,羅曼羅蘭反對戰爭,呼籲尊重人性,遭政府驅逐,因而流亡瑞士。流亡期間獲諾貝爾文學獎(1915),他把獎金捐給國際紅十字會以及法國難民組織。1938年羅蘭從瑞士返回故鄉定居。1940年德軍占領巴黎,羅蘭被納粹嚴密監視。納粹敗退後,羅蘭才重獲自由,可惜不久即過世。他的作品以長篇小說《約翰克利斯多夫》最具代表性。此外,《貝多芬傳》、《米開朗基羅傳》、《托爾斯泰傳》、《甘地傳》,前三者合稱「巨人三傳」。




今天,鄧麗君上Google的Doodle...
台灣演唱家鄧麗君

鄧麗君。圖/取自flickr, photo by jdxyw
本名鄧麗筠,在亞洲和全球華人社會極受歡迎的台灣歌星鄧麗君,於1953年的今天出生在臺灣雲林,在蘆洲成長。他父親任軍職,籍貫中國河北,母親是山東人,所以鄧麗君生長於台灣的「外省」軍人家庭。鄧麗君畢生致力慰問國軍官兵,被稱為「軍中情人」。1974年往日本發展,藝名テレサ・テン,頗受日本民眾歡迎。他的歌聲後來也傳入中國,但他本人不進中國演唱,與一般只顧歌唱市場的藝人不同,她堅持在「大陸」實現民主之前,將永不踏入「大陸」土地。可惜,這位有原則的亞洲歌壇巨星因氣喘病發,於1995年5月8日去世,空留餘音迴盪。

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