Robert Reich: "What about the 'pragmatic' Hillary Clinton? I have worked closely with her and have nothing but respect for her. In my view, she’s clearly the mo⋯⋯
根據《衛報》(The Guardian)23日的報導,英國培生出版集團(Pearson plc)23日的聲明,在全球財經新聞執牛耳的《金融時報》(Financial Times)將出售,並未透露買主身分,目前僅得知為一「全球數位新聞公司」(global digital news company),培生集團聲明中強調,「所有細節仍將討論」。據悉,這場交易的金額為10億英鎊(約新台幣480億元),其實,《金融時報》自2013年即傳聞將出售,但在前高層史卡迪諾(Marjorie Scardino)不惜說出「想都別想」(over my dead body)的強力反對之下,傳言暫告停歇。史卡迪諾2年前交棒給法倫(John Fallon),法倫當時也信誓旦旦的說不會出售《金融時報》,「是培生集團極具價值的公司」,言猶在耳,23日即傳出拋售的消息。
Pearson is in “advanced discussions” over a sale of the Financial Times, it said on Thursday.
Reuters said the London-based FTSE 100 company had decided to sell FT Group to an unnamed global digital news company, according to a person familiar with the deal.
The sale of the global financial newspaper, which was first published in 1888, could net Pearson as much as £1bn.
In a statement, Pearson said: “Pearson notes recent press speculation and confirms that it is in advanced discussions regarding the potential disposal of FT Group although there is no certainty that the discussions will lead to a transaction.
“A further announcement will be made if and when appropriate.”
Potential buyers previously linked to a move for the Financial Times include Axel Springer, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg.
On his return to running his eponymous financial information company Mike Bloomberg replaced his long-time editorial chief Matt Winckler with John Micklethwait, the erudite former editor of the Economist. The appointment immediately revived rumours of a bid for the FT.
Media companies are notoriously difficult to value especially when they are part of larger organisations. One senior banker said speculation that the FT Group could be worth as much as £1.5bn was due to the fact that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Rupert Murdoch paid well above expectations, twice as much as its estimated worth at the time, when he bought Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal for $5bn in 2007.Other potential buyers could include a billionaire keen to own a global brand such as the Financial Times.
A recent note valued the FT at between £750m and £1bn, with the FT worth £500m and the biggest unknown the worth of the 50% stake in the Economist. One media executive called it “the real prize”. A sale of the whole unit might not trigger a change of ownership clause in the Economist.
A bid by Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters would be likely to result in significant cost cuts, especially among editorial. Axel Springer employs 14,000 staff across several digital platforms with its biggest newspaper the flagship German tabloid Bild. Last year it made €3bn in revenues and earnings of €507m.
One possibility would be for Pearson to negotiate a three-year joint venture which would result in the eventual sale of the FT Group.
Pearson has long been said to have been considering a sale of the title, which is edited by Lionel Barber.
Its former chief executive Marjorie Scardino once said the paper would be sold “over my dead body”. But she has since been succeeded by John Fallon, who took up the post two years ago.
The FT Group also includes a 50% stake in the Economist.After the last round of sale rumours in 2013, Fallon said the paper was “not for sale” and described the FT as a “valued and valuable part of Pearson”.
Pearson is a world leader in educational publishing, from which it makes the bulk of its revenues. It has owned the Financial Times for nearly 60 years.
Its shares were up 3% in early trading on Thursday to 1,237p.
Pearson said FT profits had tripled year on year, but the group does not break out the paper’s earnings from the wider FT Group.
The FT Group is part of Pearson Professional which recorded adjusted operating profit of £106m last year on turnover of £1.2bn.
In the last decade its print circulation has halved but its digital subscriber base has grown exponentially, up 21% year on year to 504,000 in the latest figures.
Barber, an FT veteran of 30 years’ standing, has been the paper’s editor since 2005.
A digital pioneer since he introduced a metered paywall on the paper’s website, he has nevertheless said there is plenty of life in the print product, unveiling a new-look paper last year.
In an interview last September Barber said: “I’ve got probably one of the most privileged positions in journalism and I don’t plan to give that up any time soon.”
歷史之構成,是在時間長河中某地之人或某些人在某地所呈現之具體事物和抽象思想,概言之,包含人、地、事。如果臺灣史研究採取「屬地主義」,即是在臺灣這塊土地上曾有過的種種人所發生的事,那麼1603年陳第寫的《東番記》當是外人對臺灣平埔族最早直接觀察所作的紀錄。20多年後,荷蘭傳教士甘治士(Rev. George Candidius)也對同一主題作了記載。早期臺灣這塊土地主人的圖像,在這兩份原始紀錄所呈現的異同透露什麼歷史信息,是值得考察的課題。
前近代臺灣史的論述以地方誌的形式呈現為大宗。清帝國官修方誌有既定的規範,其體例往往透露統治者對臺灣的興趣所在和看法,不同時期所修的方誌綜合起來便構成對臺灣的歷史認識。近代以前臺灣方誌以清修為大宗,但荷蘭Francois Valentijn的《新舊東印度誌》(Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien)已有關於福爾摩沙的地誌記載,可見方誌呈現的統治觀點有其根本共同性。
歷史的書寫雖然沒人敢說絕對的公正客觀,但相對性是絕對存在的,至少像耶穌會士馮秉正(Father de Mailla)18世紀初期對臺灣的記述,應該是比較客觀的吧。19世紀西方旅行者或探險家所觀察的臺灣,雖被中國民族主義貼上帝國主義標籤,他們筆下的臺灣會比統治者遠離事實嗎?這些來臺久暫不一的觀察拼湊成的歷史圖像,是否如Lambert van der Aalsvoort的資料彙編《福爾摩沙見聞錄》,用「風中之葉」體現臺灣不能自主的命運?
“A Synopsis of Works on Ancient Chinese History Published in Taiwan, 1982-1987, ” Early China 14 (1989),據〈近五年來臺灣地區中國上古史研究書目簡介〉翻譯,《漢學研究通訊》7.1 (1988):1-7。
“The City-State in Ancient China,” Studies in Chinese and Western Classical Civilizations—Essays in Honour of Prof. Lin Zhi-chun on his 90th Birthday(《中西古典文明研究——慶祝林志純教授90華誕論文集》)(吉林人民出版社,1999),頁425-441。
“The ‘Animal Style’ Revisited, Translated and edited by Roderick Whitfield and Wang Tao,” Exploring China’s Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art (London: Saffron, 1999), pp. 137-149.
The concept of rape, both as an abduction and in the sexual sense (not always distinguishable), makes its first historical appearance in early religious texts.[citation needed]
(To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child)個人的基本「尋根」,可由近而遠,從身旁人事物擴及其他。於是,近年自己從整理已過世的父母年表做起,嘗試探討他們的一生經歷,以及他們所處的時代。同時,也要努力學習,瞭解自身已住了幾十年的這塊土地。
同樣地,安平是「台灣」地名的來源,也是全台灣第一個王國─東寧王國(Kingdom of Formosa)首府,它有最早的漢人聚落、首座西洋砲台、最古的城堡、第一條商業街、最早而興盛的鹽鄉;台灣的開發,由南而北,台南冠領全台灣,這一切都從安平起頭。安平是如此地迷人,以致當年在安平生長、工作的日本人,戰後在日本組成「安平會」,長期關心安平,並常回安平懷舊,還出有專書《望鄉安平》;這是廣義的「灣生」(台灣出生的日本人)精華版。關於安平的種種,自己經由這一番探究,得以較有系統且大致地認識;做為安平人或安平後人,心理至少變得較為踏實。
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was published #onthisday in 1813. Here’s a wood-engraved illustration by Helen Binyon depicting Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. http://ow.ly/XCX1S
Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, England 240 years ago on this day in 1775.
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her." --from EMMA
The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives–for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton–and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured. Jane Austen’s comic imagination was so deft and beautifully fluent that she could use it to probe the deepest human ironies while setting before us a dazzling gallery of characters–some pretentious or ridiculous, some admirable and moving, all utterly true. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/6386/emma/9780679405818/
Jane Austen is one of the most widely read and revered authors of all time. Born on this day in 1775, the cult of "Janeism" has ensured her legacy
Celebrating the life and work of Jane Austen -- born in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England on this day in 1775.
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." --from "Pride and Prejudice" (1813)
No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice. Because it is one of the great works in our literature, critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it. But the rest of us simply fall in love with it—and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. We are captivated not only by the novel’s romantic suspense but also by the fascinations of the world we visit in its pages. The life of the English country gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century is made as real to us as our own, not only by Jane Austen’s wit and feeling but by her subtle observation of the way people behave in society and how we are true or treacherous to each other and ourselves. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/6400/pride-and-prejudice/
Humanities at Reed, and John Shufelt of National Tunghai University. Hailed as a “monumental work” by the Taipei Times, the book provides “a much-needed ...
Professor of History and Humanities Email Modern China and Japan. B.A. 1977 University of Colorado/Boulder. M.A., 1983 Ph.D. 1993, University of California/Berkeley. Reed College 1990-.
On January 30th 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi, by a Hindu extremist opposed to his conciliatory policies towards the subcontinent's Muslims and overtures of peace to Pakistan. We have reproduced an article published shortly after his death
The book Gandhi, The Power Of Pacifism, is a succinct and powerful portrayal of Gandhi's life. I found it very informing. It's filled with good pictures of Gandhi and of the land he fought to free, as well as many of the people he encountered during this struggle. It is an honest account of the Mahatma's life, complete with his victories and defeats, both personal and political. It focuses on Gandhi's two prominent forces; ultimate pacifism and self-sacrificing. In conclusion, Catherine Clement does a good job of both informing and inspiring the reader.
芥川龍之介(Akutagawa, Ryunosuke):作品名 .; 蜘蛛の糸 ; 蜜柑 ; 地獄変……. 1892–1927, Japanese author. One of Japan's finest short-story writers, he derived many of his tales from historical Japanese sources, but told them with psychological insights in an individualistic style. "Rashomon"(1915 這「羅生門」收入英文字眼) and "In a Grove" (1921) were made into the classic 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa . His later writings, largely autobiographical fiction, were not successful, and this lack of popular response may have contributed to his suicide.
【格雷安葛林,與媒體這一行】 我喜愛的英國作家格雷安葛林,在他的早年自傳《小說家的人生》裡,寫了一段有趣往事,他年輕時,曾在《諾丁罕報》擔任夜班編輯,當時編輯部的娛樂,就是每晚合資賭足球,贏者要請大家吃薯條。 葛林在書中描述,他手氣好,常贏了錢,到當地的Fish and chips小店買炸薯條,他注意到,店老闆只用《諾丁罕報》包薯條,從不用另一份報紙《諾丁罕衛報》,「因為衛報是很受尊崇的報紙」。 此處的《諾丁罕衛報》,並非當前的《衛報The Guardian》(前身為《曼徹斯特衛報》),但這個小故事,可作當前媒體困境的一則註解。....... +++++ 黃芳田《小說家的人生》A Sort of Life的譯文當然很可靠 缺撼是第220頁對 Lord Rochester's Monkey (1939) By Graham Greene 這本書,標點符號錯誤。
出版商是看 A Sort of Life 之後,才知道Graham Greene1939年寫這奇(詩)人奇事。
我在2005年貼過一文:
Rochester's most famous verse concerned King Charles II, his great friend. In reply to his jest that:
"He never said a foolish thing, nor ever did a wise one",
Charles is reputed to have said:
"That is true -- for my words are my own, but my actions are those of my ministers."
mien
Bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind: "He was a Vietnam veteran with a haunted mien" (James Traub).
An appearance or aspect.
[Alteration (influenced by French mine, appearance) of Middle English demeine, demeanor, from Old French, from demener , to behave. See demean1.] ━━ n.n. - 風采, 樣子, 態度日本語 (Japanese)風采(ふうさい), 態度. n. - 物腰, 態度, 風采 Français (French)mine, expression
Pepys' Diary: Wednesday 4 April 1660 The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be? Rochester: The love of wine and women. The King: God bless your majesty!" new. Hhomeboy on Sun 6 Apr 2003, ...
Sober in govt….continued: One of the better exchanges between Rochester and The King: "Rochester:Were I in your Majesty's place I would not govern at all. The King: How then? Rochester: I would send for my good Lord Rochester and command him to govern. The King: But the singular modesty of that nobleman- Rochester: He would certainly conform himself to your Majesty's bright example. How gloriously would the two grand social virtues flourish under his auspices! The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be? Rochester: The love of wine and women. The King: God bless your majesty!"
crest The Family Motto is: "PRISCA FIDES" this translates to "Ancient Trust" and can be traced to John Glassford Tobacco Lord. ...
ip·so fac·to (ĭp'sō făk'tō) adv. By the fact itself; by that very fact: An alien, ipso facto, has no right to a U.S. passport. [New Latin ipsō factō : Latin ipsō, ablative of ipse, itself + Latin factō, ablative of factum , fact.]
September 15, 1974
A Martyr to Sin
By WALTER CLEMONS
LORD ROCHESTER'S MONKEYBy Graham Greene.
n the best known portrait of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, a pet monkey proffers a tattered page ripped from one of his master's books. The Earl, resplendent in silks, coolly awards the beast a laurel crown. "Were I...,"Rochester wrote, "a spirit free, to choose for my own share/ what sort of flesh and blood I pleas'd to wear,/ I'd be a dog, a monkey or a bear,/ Or any thing but that vain animal/ Who is so proud of being rational." For more than two centuries Rochester's notoriety as the wildest of "the merry gang" of wits who converged at Charles II's court during the 1660's overshadowed his reputation as a poet. The poetry- skeptical, parodistic, obscene and scathing- was a rediscovery of the 1920's, though John Hayward's 1926 Nonesuch edition escaped prosecution only by being limited to 1,050 copies. A scholarly biography by Vivian de Sola Pinto (1935; revised as "Enthusiast in Wit," 1962) usefully related Rochester's libertinism to Hobbesian materialism- specifically to Hobbes's doctrine that sensory experience was the only philosophical reality. Pinto pitched his claims high: "If Milton is the great poet of belief in the 17th century, Rochester is the great poet of unbelief." Professor Pinto's book hadn't yet appeared when Graham Greene, an unsuccessful novelist in his twenties, wrote a biography of Rochester 40 years ago. It was turned down "without hesitation" by his publisher, Greene told us in his 1971 autobiography, "and I was too uncertain of myself to send it elsewhere." The typescript has now been retrieved from the University of Texas library, minimally revised and elaborately packaged by George Rainbird Ltd. of London in the format of Nancy Mitford's "The Sun King" and Angus Wilson's "The World of Charles Dickens." "Lord Rochester's Monkey," it turns out, is Greene's best early work- a writer's book about a writer, with the vibrations of affinity we feel in Henry James's "Hawthorne" or John Berryman's "Stephen Crane."Greene, who had drawn the title of his first novel from Sir Thomas Browne- "There's another man within me that's angry with me"- responded to the discord between Cavalier and Puritan in Rochester's character, the extremities of debauchery and disgust, his personal elegance and appetite for squalor, the acrid blend of bawdry and moral fervor in his verses. Rochester lived with extraordinary velocity. Son of a Cavalier general who had followed Charles II into exile, and of a strong willed Puritan mother, he presented himself at court at 17- "graceful, tho' tall and slender," according to an early account, "his mien and shape having something extremely engaging; and for his mind, it discovered charms not to be withstood." The next year he was in the Tower for having tried to abduct the heiress Elizabeth Mallet, whose guardians aimed to auction her in marriage to a higher bidder. Freed, he redeemed himself by bravery with the fleet against the Dutch, returned to be sworn a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber and to elope with Elizabeth Mallet, this time successfully, when he was 19. Of the tradition that he "was very barbarous to his own lady, tho' so very fine a woman,"Greene observes that "infidelity was the full extent of his barbarity. A love story... may have lain hidden between these two young, witty and unhappy people." As he veered between country and court, Rochester's inconstancy seems to have tormented him. More than one letter to his wife is filled with tender regret: "I myself have a sense of what the methods of my life seem so utterly to contradict..." Rochester told the historian Gibert Burnet that "for five years together he was continually drunk; not all the while under the visible effect of it." He was repeatedly banished- and as often recalled- by the King he scurrilously lampooned. Drink made him "extravagantly pleasant"; it also led to disgraces like the smashing of the royal sundial and the brawl at Epsom in which his friend Mr. Downes was killed. Greene plausibly links the most famous of Rochester's masquerades to the aftermath of the Epsom affray: he vanished from London and a mysterious Dr. Alexander Bendo- astrologer, diviner of dreams, dispenser of beauty aids and cures for women's diseases- set up shop on Tower Hill. "Dr. Bendo's" advertisement is one of the most dazzling virtuoso pieces of 17th-century prose. In its impromptu rush of quackery and Biblical cadences, its promises of marvels and its teasing challenge to distinguish the counterfeit from the real. Greene astutely notes "the cracks in the universe of Hobbes, the disturbing doubts in his disbelief, which may have been in Rochester's mind even in the midst of his masquerade, so riddled is the broadsheet with half truths." Dating his poems is a snare, but Rochester's Songs and his best satires- "A Ramble in St. James's Park," the "Satyr Against Reason and Mankind,""A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country,""The Maim'd Debauchee"- all seem to have been written before he turned 29. Thereafter "an embittered and thoughtful man who would die in 1680 of old age at 33," he seldom appeared at court. In his last year he debated theology with the Anglican Gilbert Burnet and underwent a religious conversion, the authenticity of which was impugned when Burnet published his account of it but which Greene, like Vivian de Sola Pinto, believes to have been genuine. "The hand of God touched him," Burnet wrote- "but,"Greene characteristically adds, "it did not touch him through the rational arguments of a cleric. If God appeared at the end, it was the sudden secret appearance of a thief... without reason, an act of grace." Rochester is thus the earliest of Graham Greene's black sheep heroes, far more powerfully drawn than the protagonists of the novels Greene was writing at this time ("The Man Within,""Rumour at Nightfall,""The Name of Action"). Facets of Rochester's character will reappear in the dangerous Pinky in "Brighton Rock," the whisky priest, the remorseful husband in "The Heart of the Matter," the God-thwarted amorist in "The End of the Affair." At Rochester's funeral the chaplain preached an unusual sermon: "He seemed to affect something singular and paradoxical in his impieties, as well as in his writings, above the reach and thought of other men... Nay, so confirmed was he in sin, that he oftentimes almost died a martyr for it." "Lord Rochester's Monkey," with a bibliography containing no item more recent than 1931, is going to catch hell from some scholars. Greene gracefully acknowledges Pinto's work ("I have no wish to rewrite my biography at Professor Pinto's expense") and sideswipes David M. Vieth's 1968 "The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester" (Yale University Press): "As Mr. Vieth admits the attribution to a great many poems depends on subjective judgment, and out ears often differ... Rochester's poems from his death on became more indecent with every year, and I have the impression that Mr. Vieth is inclined to prefer the hotter versions." But 40 years' work on the dating and ascription of Rochester's writings (by Pinto, John Harold Wilson, James Thorpe, Frank H. Ellis, Vieth and others) has left Greene in a number of unprotected positions. Four out of five verse citations on a single page, during a discussion of Rochester's marriage, are now pretty reliably believed not to be Rochester's. Misdating a letter blunts its fine edge of sarcasm: when Rochester wrote, "My passion for living is so increased that I omit no care of myself... The King, who knows me to be a very ill-natured man, will not think it an easy matter for me to die, now I live chiefly out of spite," it now appears he was not referring to the false report of his death in 1678 but to the King's premature appointment, three years earlier, of Rochester's successor to the lifetime post of the Ranger of Woodstock Park. When Rochester wonders at the enmity of the Duchess of Portsmouth, Greene remarks, "He had forgotten 'Portsmouth's Mirror'" -a poem containing allusions to events after his death. These lapses disfigure the book but cannot wreck it. Greene's intuition of character yields insights that academic caution might prohibit. He is at his keenest in a chapter on Elizabeth Barry, the London actress who bore Rochester a daughter remembered in his will. Her fellow players despaired of her; she had "not a musical ear" and could not master the declamatory tragedy-queen style. Undertaking her training on a bet, Rochester"caused her to enter into the meaning of every sentiment... and adapt her whole behavior to the situations of the characters." (Professor Pinto loses his head and tells us "we can see here the beginnings of a new art of the theatre that was to culminate in the naturalistic drama of Ibsen, Shaw and Chekov.") Mrs. Barry became one of the great actresses of her time, unequalled in the art of exciting pity, Colley Cibber said. And notorious offstage, Greene adds, for her combination of immorality and coldness. Thirty-four undated letters to "slattern Betty Barry" exist in print, though not in manuscript. Greene shifts these into a pattern of his own, speculating that she inspired the famous lyric "An age in her embraces past/ Would seem a winter's day"- with its piercing observation that while pleasure may be mistaken for true love, "pain can ne'er deceive." It is a convincing feat of historical imagination. Greene's claim for his Rochester is justified: "So complex a character can be 'dramatized' (in James's sense) in more ways than one. The longer I worked on his life the more living he became to me."
Walter Clemons is an editor of Newsweek.
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at the expense of sb (ALSO at sb's expense) making another person look foolish: Would you stop making jokes at my expense? cadence n.(詩の)リズム; (声の)抑揚; 【楽】終止法. rang・er ━━ n.歩き回る人; 騎馬パトロール隊員; 〔米〕 森林警備隊員; 〔英〕 御料林監視官; 〔米〕 (普通R-) 特別奇襲隊員; 〔英〕 ガールスカウト(Girl Guides)の最年長組の少女. ranger oneself (結婚などで)身を固める; 味方する ((with)). ━━ n.賭(か)け(金,の対象); 有力候補; 期待に添うもの; 〔話〕 予想; 意見. one's best bet 最も確実なこと. hedge [cover] one's bets 2度賭けをする. ━━ v.(~(・ted); -tt-) 賭ける ((on, against)). bet one's boots [bottom dollar, shirt] on (that) 〔話〕 …を確信する, 間違いなく…だと思う. I ('ll) bet 〔話〕 間違いない; 〔反語〕 ほんとかなあ. You bet! 〔俗〕 きっと; 〔米俗〕 どう致しまして. You bet? きっとか.
"Naked she lay, claspt in my longing Arms, I fill'd with Love, and she all over Charms, Both equally inspir'd with eager fire, Melting through kindness, flaming in desire; With Arms, Legs, Lips, close clinging to embrace, She clips me to her Breast, and sucks me to her Face. The nimble Tongue (Love's lesser Lightning) plaid Within my Mouth, and to my thoughts convey'd Swift Orders, that I should prepare to throw The All dissolving Thunderbolt below. My flutt'ring Soul, sprung with the pointed Kiss, Hangs hov'ring o're her Balmy Lips of Bliss." --from "The Imperfect Enjoyment" (1680) by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)
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Famous people born in Berkhamsted include the novelist Graham Greene (1904–1991), whose father was headmaster of Berkhamsted School, which Greene attended. One of Greene's novels, The Human Factor, set there and mentions several places in the town, including Kings Road and Berkhamsted Common. In his autobiography, Greene wrote that he has been moulded in a special way "through Berkhamsted". Greene's life and works are celebrated annually during the last weekend in September with a festival organised by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust.[40]
小說家的人生 A Sort of Life
類別: 文學小說 叢書系列:藍小說 作者:格雷安‧葛林 Graham Greene 譯者:黃芳田 出版社:時報文化 出版日期:2006年
在 六十六年的人生歲月裡,我花在虛構人物與真實男女身上的光陰幾乎一樣多。說真的,雖然我很幸運擁有為數眾多的朋友,但卻不記得任何朋友的趣聞軼事,不管他 們是名人還是惡名昭彰的人──我能依稀記得的故事就是我寫過的那些故事。 那麼我紀錄這些往事點滴卻又為何呢?這就跟造就我成為小說家的動機差不多:渴望把紊亂的經歷理出一點頭緒來,同時也出於深切的好奇心。據那些神學家教導 說,除非我們多少學會先愛自己,否則無法去愛別人,而好奇心也是初始於家裡的。──引自格雷安葛林所著《小說家的人生》 (A Sort of Life,1971)
Graham Green was born into a veritable tribe of Greenes - six children, eventually, and sic cousins - based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A SORT OF LIFE Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, THE MAN WITHIN was published in 1929. A SORT OF LIFE, like its companion volume, WAYS OF ESCAPE, combines reticence with candour and reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, the genesis of a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things. . the narrow boundary between lovalty and disloyalty, between fidelity and infidelity, the mind's contradictions, the paradox one carries within oneself'. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
There are people with whom one immediately feels a rapport, the certainty that one will know them forever. So it was with Elisabeth Dennys, who has died aged 84, as she stood in the doorway of her Sussex house one morning in the autumn of 1988. She was in her mid-seventies, but could have been far younger: tall, slim, with that smile and blue, exophthalmic eyes characteristic of the Greene family.
I was visiting to look at her brother Graham's papers for an edition of his letters to the press. We talked about many things, and the files of Greene's papers spread across the floor. Pepper, my dog, had no idea of the value which Greene's handwriting conferred on them; it seemed that they were spread about for her comfort, and she promptly sat down. I was mortified, but Elisabeth beamed - her smile was magical, and it charmed people across the generations.
It was a shock, a few months later, to hear that she had suffered a stroke at the wheel of her car. One cannot imagine anything worse than the condition which she endured for 10 years after that. Able only to utter a few sounds, and unable to walk or to move one arm, she had an initial despair, but - as throughout her life - she regained a certain serenity. Her brother Graham's great friend, Yvonne Cloetta, maintains that he never got over the shock of her stroke, and that his own health deteriorated from then on.
Not only Graham's death in 1991 did she survive, but also that of her husband, Rodney, in 1993, after he too had suffered a stroke: he would manage to get from his wheelchair to bed each night and a nurse tucked them up together.
Born in Berkhamsted, Elisabeth was one of six children, several of whom became eminent in the diverse but overlapping worlds of fiction, broadcasting, climbing, medicine and the secret service. Ten years younger than Graham, she enjoyed an at first necessarily remote relationship with him.
Being the youngest, she became imbued with a certain power of observation and empathy: quietly, she was the rock on which many lives depended. After going to school at Downe House and taking a secretarial course, she joined MI6 at Bletchley in November 1938, and worked for Captain Cuthbert Bowlby until he became head of Middle East secret intelligence in Cairo, where she rejoined him in the autumn of 1941. On the convoy out, she and other women had to lock in his cabin the ship's libidinous skipper. Not that there was any doubting her passionate nature: as her great friend Rozanne Colchester, another MI6 wife, has said, Elisabeth was extremely attractive to men, and attracted by them.
Meanwhile, at Bletchley she had met the man, Rodney Dennys, who would become her husband after his great escape from under Nazi noses in Holland.
Unrecorded by Graham Greene's biographers is the fact that Elisabeth was in close contact with him again by the late-1930s. As Yvonne Cloetta records, he told her "il serait tombe amoureux de cette belle jeune femme seduisante si elle n'avait ete sa propre soeur." hewouldfall in love withthis beautiful youngseductivewomanif she had notbeenhis own sister
She was responsible for the SIS engaging him and - more problematically - Malcolm Muggeridge as an unlikely double-act across Africa. Greene later dedicated The Human Factor to her, "who cannot deny some responsibility". As for his Sierra Leone experience, this brought him the material for his first big-selling novel, The Heart Of The Matter, and worldwide fame.
Elisabeth's war years were spent between Cairo and Algiers. She and Cuthbert Bowlby worked on evacuation plans for Cairo, and her letters to her mother were used by Michael Ondaatje as background for The English Patient. Her meeting again with Rodney Dennys was the stuff of romance. She had gone on a jaunt to an out-of-bounds section of desert by the Suez Canal and faced prosecution, from which he saved her: he pointed out that those who had reported her were also off-limits. In 1944 they began a very happy marriage.
Elisabeth, and the children who soon followed, travelled with Dennys from one MI6 posting to another - in Egypt, Turkey and Paris. In what seemed a surprising career move to some, Rodney left the secret service in 1957 to pursue a passion for heraldry, in the College of Arms. He and Elisabeth found and renovated a house which overlooks the Sussex Downs. As their children (a son and two daughters, who survive her) left, Elisabeth went through a low phase. She had hopes of writing fiction set in Tudor times, but it would not work. In the summer of 1975, Graham Greene's secretary retired, and, in an inspired move, he suggested that Elisabeth take on the job.
The routine of his work in Antibes, Capri and Paris depended upon somebody to field the myriad inquiries and demands upon his time. Their minds were in perfect harmony, as she could tell what would attract him. He either taped letters for typing onto signed paper or dictated urgent ones over the telephone: concise, witty and masterly.
Shortly before his death, Graham Greene arranged for his annotated library and manuscripts to be sold to help the family pay for the young carers who looked after Elisabeth at home. These were invariably from Australia or New Zealand, and travelling in Europe: they fell under her great charm - often returning for another spell. There was one exception: on his last visit to England, Greene stayed at a bed-and-breakfast place nearby, and, as he thought, would put a more severe-minded person at her ease with tales of his smoking opium in Saigon: with no idea who he was, she wondered what sort of household this could be, and soon left.
A cherished memory is of Elisabeth ringing up after she had heard that Pepper had died. I could not really understand what she was saying. That did not matter. Her spirit had always transcended words. In her work and her life, she never pushed herself forward, but her great kindness was built upon true strength and determination. No biographer can understand the brother she loved dearly without taking account of their relationship. Yvonne Cloetta gets it exactly right: she was struck by the similarity of their facial expressions, pleasant but firm, "avec une pointe d'ironie toujours presente. La complicite - pour ne pas dire la connivance - entre eux etait si flagrante qu'elle ne pouvait echapper a personne. Leur finesse d'esprit intuitive et discrete rendait les discours inutiles et superflus. Ils se comprenaient a mi-mots."
"witha touch of ironyalwayspresentthecomplicity-. if nottheconnivance-betweenthem wasso obviousthatno onecouldescapetheirfinesseintuitiveand discreetspiritmadeunnecessaryandsuperfluousTheytalk.. isincludedinmid-word. "
“How can one resist the controls of this vast society without turning into a nihilist, avoiding the absurdity of empty rebellion? I have asked, Are there other, more good-natured forms of resistance and free choice? And I suppose that, like most Americans, I have involuntarily favored the more comforting or melioristic side of the question.”
* * * * * (University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf7-00065, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)
Saul Bellow was born a hundred years ago today. He was a serial adulterer, a negligent father and a surprisingly lacklustre public speaker. But he was also a good friend to many literary luminaries such as Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud and John Berryman, and a “famed noticer” who channelled his gimlet-eyed observations to create enduring, innovative, award-winning fiction. http://econ.st/1S3CUTl
10年前,我詳細評過Saul Bellow的最後一本小說。
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow 中國有譯本,也選入Saul Bellow文集 (約10冊)。 The 100 best novels: No 73 – The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)
"I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent." --from "The Adventures of Augie March" (1953) by Saul Bellow
Much of The Adventures of Augie March takes place during the Great Depression, but far from being a chronicle of deprivation, the first of Saul Bellow’s string of masterpieces testifies to the explosive richness of life when it is lived at high risk and in tumultuous social circumstances. In a brawling Chicago of crooks, con artists, second-story men, extravagant dreamers, snappy dressers, and cold-eyed pragmatists, Augie March undergoes his sentimental education—an education that, though imbued with reality, will take him into realms progressively stranger, more marvelous, more filled with indecipherable meaning. The Adventures of Augie March is the product of an elegant and skeptical mind on which nothing is lost, and of an appetite for the look and feel of things that is both enormous and passionate. The result of these varying felicities is a novel that is immediate, strikingly unpredictable, authentic, and convincing. READ an excerpt here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/…/…/the-adventures-of-augie-march/
In the long-running hunt to identify the great American novel, Saul Bellow’s picaresque third book frequently hits the mark. Robert McCrum explains why
Monday 9 February 2015 05.45 GMT From the get-go – “I am an American, Chicago-born” – this turbo-charged masterpiece declares itself to be a heavyweight contender; and for some,The Adventures of Augie March is a knockout. Delmore Schwartz called it “a new kind of book”. Forget Huckleberry Finn (nodded at in the title); forgetGatsby; even forget Catcher in the Rye. This, says Martin Amis, one of many writers under Bellow’s spell, is “the Great American Novel. Search no further”. Well, maybe.
In retrospect, both JD Salinger (no 72 in this series) and Saul Bellow, who declared their originality at the beginning of the 1950s, stand head-and-shoulders above a rising generation of young contenders, from Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal to Kurt Vonnegut, and James Salter. No question: the great American postwar fiction boom starts here.
Augie March opens in 1920s Chicago during the Great Depression. Augie is “the by-blow of a travelling man”, and his adventures, loosely patterned after Bellow’s experience, are picaresque. This odyssey, in Bellow’s own words, traces “a widening spiral that begins in the parish, ghetto, slum and spreads into the greater world”, much as his own life did. Augie finds his feet through his engagement with a kind of America that had not been run to earth in fiction before. A sequence of brilliant set pieces narrates the footloose Augie’s upward drift. He becomes a butler, a shoe salesman, a paint-seller, a dog-groomer and a book thief, even a trades union shop steward.
He also revels, like Dickens, in some memorable characters – Augie’s Jewish mother; Einhorn, the fixer and surrogate father – and some seductive women: Sophie Geratis, Thea Fenchel (and her eagle, Caligula), and finally, Stella, whom Augie will marry. It’s a long book, some 500 pages. “It takes some of us a long time,” says Augie, “to find out what the price is of being in nature, and what the facts are about your tenure.” Quite so.
Augie enlists in the merchant marine during the second world war. When his ship, the Sam MacManus, is torpedoed, Augie experiences a long quasi-surreal episode on board a lifeboat in which he confronts matters of life and death in the company of Basteshaw, a weirdo. In the end, with persistent questions about identity and reality unresolved, Augie, the “travelling man”, declares himself to be “a sort of Columbus”, one who discovered a new world but who may himself be a flop. “Which,” as Bellow jokes in a brilliant closing line, “doesn’t prove there was no America”. A Note on the Text
Saul Bellow published his first novel, Dangling Man in 1944, followed by The Victim (1947) – two works of fiction that reflect his marginal status as a Canadian Jew living in the US – but did not find his true voice as a novelist until he wrote The Adventures of Augie March. Later, looking back, he recalled: “I was turned on like a fire hydrant in summer.” He had begun to write the novel in Paris, having won a Guggenheim fellowship. According to his first biographer, James Atlas, from whom he became estranged, Bellow found the spectacle of water flooding down a Parisian street to be the inspiration for the “cascade of prose” that gushed after his famous opening line: “I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that sombre city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way…”
He was, he said, revelling in “the relief of turning away from mandarin English and putting my own accents into the language. My earlier books had been straight and respectable. But in Augie March I wanted to invent a new sort of American sentence. Something like a fusion between colloquialism and elegance.” Philip Roth, who would sometimes struggle with Bellow’s influence, noted that this new style “combined literary complexity with conversational ease”. It was, like many literary innovations, from Mark Twain onwards, a high-low hybrid, and linked, in Roth’s words, “the idiom of the academy with the idiom of the streets (not all streets – certain streets)”.
The great, unfulfilled, hope of American fiction in the 1930s, Delmore Schwartz, put this explicitly: “For the first time in fiction America’s social mobility has been transformed into a spiritual energy which is not doomed to flight, renunciation, exile, denunciation, the agonised hyper-intelligence of Henry James, or the hysterical cheering of Walter Whitman.” Other critics, notably James Wood, have celebrated something equally universal – “the beauty of this writing, its music, its high lyricism, its firm but luxurious pleasure in language itself”. Advertisement
The Adventures of Augie March encountered only one serious pre-publication critique (from Bellow’s British editor, John Lehmann, the celebrated founder of Penguin New Writing). The upshot of this clash was Bellow’s determination to prevail. And he did. Augie March spoke directly to the new postwar generation, and would go on to influence writers as various as Cormac McCarthy, Martin Amis, Jonathan Safran Foer and Joseph Heller.
Bellow’s third novel was published by the Viking Press in 1953. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, which identified this book as an important “novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age…” Three more from Saul Bellow
------ Henderson the Rain King (1959); Herzog (1964); Mr Sammler’s Planet (1970).
[Anniversaire] Zao Wou-Ki déclarait : « Les toiles sont les pages des journaux intimes des peintres. » Le jour de son anniversaire : plongez-vous dans son intimité.
Another week, another Zao Wou-Ki publication... "Zao Wou-ki, la Quête du Silence" was collectively written by Aude Cordonnier, Dominique Tonneau, Michel Hilaire, Bernard Ceysson and Sylvan Amic.
Dans l'hebdomadaire Le Point.fr du 15 mai 2014, un article sur la foire Art Basel - Hong Kong, illustré par l'oeuvre 22.6.91 de Zao Wou-Ki, exposée par la Galerie Applicat-Prazan.
Zao Wou-ki, a painter who was recently the highest-selling living Chinese artist at auction, passed away Tuesday at his home in Switzerland. He was 93.
Mr. Zao, who is known for his abstract works, suffered from dementia and weak health. He was living in a lakeside house near Geneva with his third wife, Françoise Marquet, who survives him along with a son from a previous marriage, Jialing Zhao.
Born in Beijing in 1920, Mr. Zao studied fine arts in Hangzhou and Chongqing before moving to Paris in 1948. In France, he began to discover Western art styles and became a fixture on the country's art scene in the second half of the 20th century. However, his career hit a lull in the 1990s, when few of his works were sold and museum interest waned.
The artist's career was rejuvenated following a major retrospective in Paris in 2003. Since then, his blend of Chinese techniques with Western modernist aesthetics has caught the eye of wealthy Asian collectors -- especially from Taiwan and mainland China -- who have paid significant sums for his works.
In 2011, Mr. Zao was the top-selling, living Chinese artist at auction, with his works fetching $90 million in sales that year. Demand remains strong: Last week, his painting '10.03.83' sold for $4.8 million at a Sotheby's sale in Hong Kong.
His estate, which includes hundreds of paintings, is the subject of a legal dispute between Ms. Marquet and Mr. Zhao.
Henri Michaux, David Ball - 1997 - Literary Criticism - 270 頁 Here are selections from nearly all of the artist's major writings: his hallucinatory visions, fantastic journeys, fables, portraits of strange people's, the ...
身在香港的法國畫廊主帕斯卡·德薩赫特(Pascal de Sarthe)為趙無極故交,從事趙無極作品交易已有18年。他說:“趙無極是革命前離開中國的最重要的藝術家。藝術界,尤其是本地區的藝術界,失去了一位大家。” 趙先生的抽象作品受歐洲抽象和中國傳統筆法的影響,在1950年代迅速引起紐約及巴黎畫廊的關注,時常進行展覽。他與同時代的阿爾佩托·賈科梅蒂(Alberto Giacometti)及胡安·米羅(Joan Miró)等藝術家交好。 趙無極被視為巴黎畫派的一員,在其客居的法國備受讚譽。法國在主要藝術場所舉辦了趙無極作品回顧展,如1981年在大皇宮國家美術館 (Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais)、2003年在國立網球場現代美術館(Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume)以及2008年在法國國家圖書館(Bibliothèque Nationale de France )。倫敦泰特美術館(Tate)及紐約古根海姆博物館(Guggenheim)也收藏了他的作品。 而在他的祖國,由於藝術活動在文化大革命期間陷入混亂,對他的認可要晚了一些。直到1983年,中國文化部長才對他發出邀請,請他在離開中國35年後首次到中國辦展。到了1990年代,他的作品開始在台灣、香港、上海、北京和廣州多地的大型博物館展覽和回顧展中展出。 進入本世紀的頭10年,由於年事已高加之疾患纏身,趙先生已經不再有成規模的新作,但是中國新富收藏者卻對他的作品產生了更濃厚的興趣。他最受推崇的那些作品,幾十年前就已經被人買走,持有者極不願意將其易手。 2011年10月在香港蘇富比(Sotheby's),趙無極的一幅1968年抽象畫作引起中國買家的爭奪,最後以6898萬港幣、約合880萬美元的價格成交,刷新其個人拍賣紀錄。 在下月舉行的首屆香港巴塞爾藝術展(Art Basel Hong Kong)上,德赫爾特的畫廊將展出一幅趙無極作品。德赫爾特說:“趙先生的畫極其稀少。相比而言,找一張畢加索甚至更容易些。”
劉可頌(Joyce Lau)是《國際先驅論壇報》(The International Herald Tribune)記者。
翻譯:梁英
Zao Wou-Ki, Seen as Modern Art Master, Dies at 92
By JOYCE LAUApril 13, 2013
HONG KONG — Zao Wou-ki, one of the few Chinese-born painters to be considered a master of 20th-century modern art in the West, died at his home in Switzerland on Tuesday. He was 92. His death was reported by the French news media and confirmed by a dealer who worked closely with him. Mr. Zao, who was born in Beijing in 1921, moved to France in 1948, just before the 1949 Communist takeover of China. He became a French citizen in 1964.
“Zao Wou-ki was the most important Chinese artist to have left before the revolution,” said Pascal de Sarthe, a Hong Kong-based French gallerist who knew Mr. Zao and has been dealing in his works for 18 years. “The art world has lost a giant, especially in this part of the world.” Mr. Zao’s abstract works — influenced by both European abstraction and traditional Chinese brushwork — quickly drew the attention of galleries in New York and Paris, where he was regularly showing by the 1950s. He befriended contemporaries like Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró. Considered one of the School of Paris artists, Mr. Zao was lauded in his adopted country, which held retrospectives of his works at major venues like the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (1981), the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (2003) and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (2008). His works are also in the collections of museums like the Tate in London and the Guggenheim in New York. Recognition came later in his homeland, where the art scene was disrupted by the Cultural Revolution. It was not until 1983 that the Chinese minister of culture invited him to do his first exhibitions since he left China 35 years earlier. In the 1990s, his paintings were shown in major museum exhibitions and retrospectives in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. By the 2000s, newly affluent Chinese collectors were taking a greater interest in paintings by Mr. Zao, even though he was elderly and in ill health and had stopped producing new work in any significant quantity. His most prized pieces had been collected decades earlier by buyers who were loath to let them go. In October 2011, Chinese buyers vied for an abstract 1968 painting that sold at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong for a record- breaking 68.98 million Hong Kong dollars, or about $8.8 million. “Zao’s paintings are extremely rare,” said Mr. de Sarthe, whose gallery will be showing one Zao work at the first Art Basel Hong Kong next month. “It’s almost easier to find a Picasso.”
"A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself." --from DECAMERON (c. 1350) by Giovanni Boccaccio
"Although he was an old man approaching seventy, and the natural warmth had almost entirely departed from his body, his heart was so noble that he was not averse to welcoming the flames of love [...] He was mightily attracted by the lady, and, no differently than if he had been in the prime of his youth, he felt those flames so keenly in his mature old breast, that he never seemed able to sleep at night, unless in the course of the day he had seen the fair lady's fine and delectable features." --from Pampinea's tale of Master Alberto in "Decameron" By Giovanni Boccaccio
In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for “ten days,” Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced the work of myriad writers who came after him. J. G. Nichols’s new translation, faithful to the original but rendered in eminently readable modern English, captures the timeless humor of one of the great classics of European literature. A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.” READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/bo…/15360/decameron/9780307271716/
Oct 1, 2014 - 書名:來自深淵的吶喊:王爾德獄中書(160週年誕辰紀念版),原文名稱:De Profundis,語言:繁體中文,ISBN:9789869016087,頁數:208,出版社: ...
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"Oscar Wilde: From the Depths" Now - February 14, 2016 Lantern Theater Company Philadelphia, PA
This new play pries open the imagination of Oscar Wilde, the most original and artistic mind of his generation. At the height of his literary success and incandescent celebrity he is brought to sudden and catastrophic ruin. Now, desolate and alone in his cell at Reading Gaol, he struggles to overcome the darkness that threatens to engulf him. Conjuring up a cast of characters from his memory, he revisits the stories from his meteoric career and unconventional personal life in search of transformation and salvation. More here:http://www.lanterntheater.org/2015-16/oscar-wilde.html
With his brilliant work and tragic arc, Oscar Wilde remains a fascinating…
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” -- Oscar Wilde in the Preface to THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY的中譯本/改寫本,可能超過10個。
"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing... A new Hedonism - that is what our century wants. You might be its visible symbol. With your personality there is nothing you could not do. The world belongs to you for a season..."
--Lord Henry to Dorian in Basil Hallward's garden in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
"There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that." --from THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
"In England, the arts that have escaped best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it." -- Oscar Wilde
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler's key publications were The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1927), Understanding Human Nature (1927), & What Life Could Mean to You (1931). Other important publications are The Pattern of Life (1930), The Science of Living (1930), The Neurotic Constitution (1917), The Problems of Neurosis (1930). In his lifetime, Adler published more than 300 books and articles.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-112) and index
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Science of individual psychology -- Individual psychology and Freudian psychology -- Comparison of individual psychology and psychoanalysis -- Scientific study of character -- Courage -- Bashfulness -- Finicky eating -- Laziness -- Mistakes of childhood -- School problems -- Stuttering -- Adolescence -- The approach to womanhood -- The approach to manhood -- Future of love -- The family life -- Anxious parents -- The importance of mother in family and social life -- The influence of the father -- Migraine -- The problem of crime -- The problem of death -- Psychological aspects in a time of economic crisis