The Proust Questionnaire; Philippe Sollers《例外的理論》(Théorie des exceptions)
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_Questionnaire
①你認為程度最淺的痛苦是什麼?
A:和媽媽分開。
②你喜歡在哪兒生活?
A:我的理想國。
③你認為現實中的幸福是怎樣的?
A:活在那些我愛的事物當中,包括美麗的大自然,大量的書籍和音樂,不遠處有一家法國歌劇院。
④哪一種錯誤你覺得是最可以被縱容的?
A:失去工作的才能。
⑤虛構人物中你認為誰是英雄?
A:那些浪漫而有詩意的,對思想的表達遠勝過對現實的虛構的。
⑥你最欣賞的歷史人物?
A:蘇格拉底、伯利克里、穆罕默德、小普林尼和奧古斯汀的混合體。
⑦現實中最欣賞的女性是誰?
A:有天分卻過著平凡生活的女人。
⑧你欣賞的小說中的女英雄是誰?
A:那些非常有女性氣質,非常柔弱、純潔,任何一面都非常美的女子。
⑨你最欣賞的男性氣質?
A:智慧,有道德。
⑩你最欣賞的女性氣質?
A:溫柔,自然,聰明。
⑪你最希望擁有的?
A:閱讀、做夢和寫詩。
⑫你最希望成為誰那樣的人?
A:如果這問題沒有的話,我寧願不回答。非要說的話,我希望是小普林尼。
【20歲時的回答】 ①你最顯著的特質是什麼?
A:渴望被愛,或者說,希望被關懷、被溺愛勝過被欽佩和讚賞。
②你最喜歡男性身上的什麼品質?
A:有著男性的美德,在友誼中率直、真誠。
③你最喜歡女性身上的什麼品質?
A:溫柔的、女性的迷人氣質,陰柔的吸引力。
④你最看重朋友擁有什麼樣的品質?
A:敏感,倘若他們對我具有某種身體上的吸引力,那他們的敏感就是我需要的。
⑤你天性中的缺點是什麼?
A:缺乏理解能力,意志力不強。
⑥你認為完美的快樂是什麼樣子的?
A:沒有,恐怕那是一種很崇高的東西,我還沒有勇氣來說它到底是什麼樣子的。假使敢於表達,恐怕在說出來的那一刻,已經破壞了它。
⑦你最傷痛的是什麼?
A:從不曾見過我的母親與我的祖母。
⑧你最想成為什麼?
A:我自己,就如那些我讚賞的人希望我成為的那種人。
⑨你最想在哪個國家生活?
A:一個能讓我對某些事確定不疑的國家,在那裡,敏感溫柔的思緒總是可以得到回應。
⑩你最喜歡的小說中的男主角是什麼?
A:哈姆雷特。
⑪什麼是你最不喜歡的?
A:我自己的,最糟糕的品質。
⑫你最希望具有怎樣的天賦?
A:意志力強與難以抗拒的吸引力。
⑬你感覺最被縱容的錯誤是什麼?
A:那些我可以理解的錯誤。
⑭什麼是你的座右銘?
A:我寧願不說,擔心那會帶給我壞運氣。
Originally published: January 1986
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_Questionnaire
The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one's personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust.[1]
At the end of the nineteenth century, when Proust was still in his teens, he answered a questionnaire in an English-language confession album belonging to his friend Antoinette, daughter of future French President Félix Faure, titled "An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc." At that time, it was popular among English families to answer such a list of questions that revealed the tastes and aspirations of the taker.
Proust answered always with enthusiasm. The original manuscript of his answers of 1890, at the time of his volunteer internship or some little time afterwards, titled "by Marcel Proust himself," was found in 1924. It was auctioned on May 27, 2003 for the sum of €102,000.
The television host Bernard Pivot, seeing an opportunity for a writer to reveal at the same time aspects of his work and his personality, traditionally subjected his guests to the Proust questionnaire at the end of the French broadcast Apostrophes.
Inspired by Bernard Pivot, James Lipton, the host of the TV program Inside the Actors Studio, gives an adapted version of the Proust Questionnaire to his guests. Lipton has often incorrectly characterized the questionnaire itself as an invention of Pivot.
A similar questionnaire is regularly seen on the back page of Vanity Fair magazine, answered by various celebrities. In October 2009, Vanity Fair launched an interactive version of the questionnaire, that compares individual answers to those of various luminaries.[2]
Another version of the questionnaire, as answered by various Canadian authors, is a regular feature on the radio program The Next Chapter.
The questionnaire[edit]
There are two surviving sets of answers to the confession album questions by Proust: the first, from 1885 or 1886, is to an English confessions album, although his answers are in French. The second, from 1891 or 1892, is from a French album, Les confidences de salon ("Drawing room confessions"), which contains translations of the original questions, lacking some that were in the English version and adding others.
Confessions questions | Confidences questions | Proust's answers 1890 |
---|---|---|
Your favorite virtue | The principal aspect of my personality | The need to be loved; more precisely, the need to be caressed and spoiled much more than the need to be admired |
Your favorite qualities in a man. | The quality that I desire in a man. | Manly virtues, and frankness in friendship. |
Your favorite qualities in a woman. | The quality that I desire in a woman. | Feminine charms. |
Your chief characteristic | ---- | ---- |
What you appreciate the most in your friends | What I appreciate most about my friends. | To have tenderness for me, if their personage is exquisite enough to render quite high the price of their tenderness |
Your main fault | My main fault | Not knowing, not being able to "want". |
Your favourite occupation. | My favorite occupation. | Loving. |
Your idea of happiness | My dream of happiness. | I am afraid it be not great enough, I dare not speak it, I am afraid of destroying it by speaking it. |
Your idea of misery. | What would be my greatest misfortune? | Not to have known my mother or my grandmother. |
If not yourself, who would you be? | What I should like to be. | Myself, as the people whom I admire would like me to be. |
Where would you like to live? | The country where I should like to live. | A country where certain things that I should like would come true as though by magic, and where tenderness would always be reciprocated |
Your favourite colour and flower. | My favourite colour. | The beauty is not in the colours, but in their harmony. |
---- | The flower that I like. | Hers/His - and after, all of them.[3] |
---- | My favorite bird. | The swallow. |
Your favorite prose authors. | My favorite prose authors. | Currently, Anatole France and Pierre Loti. |
Your favorite poets. | My favorite poets. | Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny. |
Your favorite heroes in fiction. | My heroes in fiction. | Hamlet. |
Your favorite heroines in fiction. | My favorite heroines in fiction. | Bérénice. |
Your favorite painters and composers. | My favorite composers. | Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann. |
Notes[edit]
- ^ Carter, William C., and Henry-Jean Servat. 2005. The Proust questionnaire. New York: Assouline.
- ^ Carter, Graydon, and Robert Risko. 2009. Vanity Fair's Proust questionnaire: 101 luminaries ponder love, death, happiness, and the meaning of life. [Emmaus, Pa.]: Rodale.
- ^ In French the gender of the possessive is determined, not by the gender of the possessor, but the gender of the possessed object - in this case flower, 'fleur', is feminine, but the context gives no assurance of how to read 'la sienne' meaning 'his/hers'.
Related links[edit]
- Responses to the questionnaire by Antoinette Faure
- Answer Vanity Fair's Interactive Proust Questionnaire and compare your results
- Answer the Proust Questionnaire
普魯斯特問卷(Proust Questionnaire)是一種用來調查被提問者個人生活方式、價值觀、人生經驗等問題的問卷調查。普魯斯特問卷其名稱來自於《追憶逝水年華》的作者馬塞爾·普魯斯特(Marcel Proust),但普魯斯特並不是此問卷的發明者,只是因為他曾對問卷給出過著名的答案,此後人們才把其命名為普魯斯特問卷。據說普魯斯特在13歲和20歲時各做過一次普魯斯特問卷,後來的研究者曾用這兩次問卷結果分析普魯斯特的個人成長經歷。
浮華世界(Vanity Fair)曾在雜誌封底開設普魯斯特問卷專欄,每期刊登對一位名人的問卷調查結果。
幾個普魯斯特問卷中出現的問題:
01. 你認為最完美的快樂是怎樣的?
02. 你最希望擁有哪種才華?
03. 你最恐懼的是什麼?
04. 你目前的心境怎樣?
05. 還在世的人中你最欽佩的是誰?
06. 你認為自己最偉大的成就是什麼?
07. 你自己的哪個特點讓你最覺得痛恨?
08. 你最喜歡的旅行是哪一次?
09. 你最痛恨別人的什麼特點?
10. 你最珍惜的財產是什麼?
11. 你最奢侈的是什麼?
12. 你認為程度最淺的痛苦是什麼?
13. 你認為哪種美德是被過高的評估的?
14. 你最喜歡的職業是什麼?
15. 你對自己的外表哪一點不滿意?
16. 你最後悔的事情是什麼?
17. 還在世的人中你最鄙視的是誰?
18. 你最喜歡男性身上的什麼特質?
19. 你使用過的最多的單詞或者是詞語是什麼?
20. 你最喜歡女性身上的什麼特質?
21. 你最傷痛的事是什麼?
22. 你最看重朋友的什麼特點?
23. 你這一生中最愛的人或東西是什麼?
24. 你希望以什麼樣的方式死去?
25. 何時何地讓你感覺到最快樂?
26. 如果你可以改變你的家庭一件事,那會是什麼?
27. 如果你能選擇的話,你希望讓什麼重現?
28. 你的座右銘是什麼?
普魯斯特本人在其13歲和20歲的時候分別回答過該問卷,其中部分經典回答如下:[1]
【13歲時的回答】
①你認為程度最淺的痛苦是什麼?
A:和媽媽分開。
②你喜歡在哪兒生活?
A:我的理想國。
③你認為現實中的幸福是怎樣的?
A:活在那些我愛的事物當中,包括美麗的大自然,大量的書籍和音樂,不遠處有一家法國歌劇院。
④哪一種錯誤你覺得是最可以被縱容的?
A:失去工作的才能。
⑤虛構人物中你認為誰是英雄?
A:那些浪漫而有詩意的,對思想的表達遠勝過對現實的虛構的。
⑥你最欣賞的歷史人物?
A:蘇格拉底、伯利克里、穆罕默德、小普林尼和奧古斯汀的混合體。
⑦現實中最欣賞的女性是誰?
A:有天分卻過著平凡生活的女人。
⑧你欣賞的小說中的女英雄是誰?
A:那些非常有女性氣質,非常柔弱、純潔,任何一面都非常美的女子。
⑨你最欣賞的男性氣質?
A:智慧,有道德。
⑩你最欣賞的女性氣質?
A:溫柔,自然,聰明。
⑪你最希望擁有的?
A:閱讀、做夢和寫詩。
⑫你最希望成為誰那樣的人?
A:如果這問題沒有的話,我寧願不回答。非要說的話,我希望是小普林尼。
【20歲時的回答】 ①你最顯著的特質是什麼?
A:渴望被愛,或者說,希望被關懷、被溺愛勝過被欽佩和讚賞。
②你最喜歡男性身上的什麼品質?
A:有著男性的美德,在友誼中率直、真誠。
③你最喜歡女性身上的什麼品質?
A:溫柔的、女性的迷人氣質,陰柔的吸引力。
④你最看重朋友擁有什麼樣的品質?
A:敏感,倘若他們對我具有某種身體上的吸引力,那他們的敏感就是我需要的。
⑤你天性中的缺點是什麼?
A:缺乏理解能力,意志力不強。
⑥你認為完美的快樂是什麼樣子的?
A:沒有,恐怕那是一種很崇高的東西,我還沒有勇氣來說它到底是什麼樣子的。假使敢於表達,恐怕在說出來的那一刻,已經破壞了它。
⑦你最傷痛的是什麼?
A:從不曾見過我的母親與我的祖母。
⑧你最想成為什麼?
A:我自己,就如那些我讚賞的人希望我成為的那種人。
⑨你最想在哪個國家生活?
A:一個能讓我對某些事確定不疑的國家,在那裡,敏感溫柔的思緒總是可以得到回應。
⑩你最喜歡的小說中的男主角是什麼?
A:哈姆雷特。
⑪什麼是你最不喜歡的?
A:我自己的,最糟糕的品質。
⑫你最希望具有怎樣的天賦?
A:意志力強與難以抗拒的吸引力。
⑬你感覺最被縱容的錯誤是什麼?
A:那些我可以理解的錯誤。
⑭什麼是你的座右銘?
A:我寧願不說,擔心那會帶給我壞運氣。