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Michael Ignatieff 的2本書： Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics和...
( 真正的人藏在許多地方:編輯Henry Hardy 寫的《自由及其背叛‧編者前言》Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty很精彩，不亞於Michael Ignatieff 所寫的 Sir Isaiah Berlin 的傳記。(該書有二漢譯本，而我寫了好幾篇所謂"翻譯評論"。Michael Ignatieff...
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Joseph Conrad：《黑暗的心》(Heart of Darkness ,1899), "Lord Jim" (1900)，"The...
British Museum‘Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality’ – novelist Joseph Conrad was born #onthisday in 1857. He wrote these words in his novel Under Western Eyes, published in 1911....
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MOBY-DICK, Making Digital Books Into Page Turners
"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."--from "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" (1851) by Herman MelvilleMaking Digital Books...
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永井荷風：晴日木屐 断腸亭日乗『濹東綺譚』/美利坚物语/法兰西物语/《地狱之花》腕くらべRIVALRY: A GEISHA'S TALE
Nagai Kafu 1954" In his total commitment to the truth,the photodrapher follows a course diffent from the abstractionst one attempted by the painter.Verisimilitude is by no neans the photographer's...
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Rilke：The Book of Hours, “The Lion Cage,”
The Paris ReviewRainer Maria Rilke was born on this day in 1875. Read this excerpt from “The Lion Cage.”Rilke and the LionsFor Rainer Maria Rilke’s birthday, an excerpt from his short work “The Lion...
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Maria Callas. Greek Fire by Nicholas Gage
On the anniversary of her death, we honor the great soprano Maria Callas. Callas was commonly referred to as “La Divina,” and Leonard Bernstein, amazed by the range of her accomplishments, called her...
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"Letters to a Young Poet' (1934) Rainer Maria Rilk
里爾刻此書中譯夲全文，可在網路找到。Vintage Books & Anchor BooksRené Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary on this day in 1875."No one can advise or help you — no one....
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Lafcadio Hearn, 1850-1904: Japan's Great Interpreter: A New Anthology of His...
2015.7.25 晚，在知事官邸 台南市定古蹟書架上看到此書。隔天在小妹家看經年未展讀的報紙，內有此篇：小泉八雲《怪談》 用中文說鬼故事；想起中學時代的電影，令人震憾的片頭，以及80年代在日本看NHK拍攝的Lafcadio Hearn專集之鄉村黎明之叫賣聲....2015-07-26 07:59:52 聯合報...
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竹久夢二 的生涯/童画童话/畫與詩
竹久夢二：畫與詩 竹久梦二：画与诗 作者: [日] 竹久梦二译者: 林少华出版社:山东画报出版社出版年: 2011 本书是日本人竹久梦二代表作的选集，以图画为主，辅以诗歌，为国内首次推出。作者简介 · · · · · · 陈子善，华东师范大学中文系研究员、博士生导师，中国现当代文学、台港暨海外华文文学著名学者，同时也是国内著名藏书家。...
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Sylvia Plath
"I Want, I Want" by Sylvia PlathOpen-mouthed, the baby godImmense, bald, though baby-headed,Cried out for the mother's dug.The dry volcanoes cracked and split,Sand abraded the milkless lip.Cried then...
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"The Count of Monte Cristo" (1845–1846) Alexandre Dumas, père；李波 ：早期中文譯本考釋
季芳(1954 假名)《基督山恩仇記》新興出版社Everyman's LibraryAlexandre Dumas, père died in Puys, Seine-Maritime, France on this day in 1870 (aged 68).“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The...
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《(國語)古蘭經》《可蘭經》Of the Koran's 6,346 verses, fewer than 2% invoke the concept...
2015.7.23 英國伯明罕大學22日表示，該校圖書館發現全世界現存最古老的《可蘭經》手抄殘頁，據放射性碳定年法檢測至少已有1370年歷史。 這幾頁羊皮手稿和一些中東書籍放在伯明罕大學的圖書館裡，近100年未被發現。一位名叫費德利的博士生翻閱這些手稿後，決定拿去用放射性碳元素測定法判定年代，獲此意外發現。...
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Reciting Sagas
竟然找不到過去幫saga寫條文。The Paris ReviewIcelandic saga tours and language.Reciting Sagas in the Westfjords of IcelandAlison Kinney listens to a three-hour recitation of Icelandic sagas.THEPARISREVIEW.ORG|由...
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For Wallace Stevens, Hartford as Muse 最高虛構筆記The Idea of Order at Key West
The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace StevensShe sang beyond the genius of the sea.The water never formed to mind or voice,Like a body wholly body, flutteringIts empty sleeves; and yet its mimic...
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蔡珠兒......晨起澆園畢，讀月庵持贈之《花鏡》，論十一月事宜，則「日往月來，灰移火變。鴻入漢而藏形，鶴臨橋而送語，彤雲垂回野之寒，霽雪開六花之瑞。」云云，文如淡墨，數筆皴染，盡顯蕭瑟冬意。《花鏡》刊行康熙年間（1688年），乃陳淏子種植筆記，詳述花木果樹以至鳥獸蟲魚之理，包羅豐贍，文筆清雅，每讀必有所獲。淏子躬身實踐，精於蒔栽，深情愛花人也，恨不能與此翁面晤暢談。淏 hào...
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Willa Cather
1940.12.18 胡適50歲生日後一天給Roberta (Robby) Lowitz*一封信.說昨天杜威博士給他一封很好的短箋.....兩個晚上前胡適讀 Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) 的Double Birthday,( set in Pittsburgh, is part of a group referred to as the Pittsburgh...
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Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (1932)； Philosophical essays (1910...
"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing."-- Ian McEwan, author of ON CHESIL BEACHIn 1962, Florence and Edward celebrate their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast....
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Sherwin B. Nuland
“The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we call all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of...
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二十世紀西方文化風景
二十世紀西方文化風景作者： 李劼 出版社：允晨文化 新功能介紹出版日期：2015/02/01當科技取代人文成了新神祇二十世紀西方的文化風景成了天際最後一抹壯闊瑰麗的虹彩李劼以酣暢淋漓的華麗篇章相映於百年風雨的恢弘奇想引領讀者尋訪遺落的人文精神令人擊節讚嘆 大氣磅礡 隆重問世...
View Article周作人譯 Mór Jókai 1825-1904,【匈奴奇士錄】【黃玫瑰】
周作人寫過一篇【黃玫瑰】，介紹他轉譯自英譯本的Mór Jókai 匈加利育珂摩耳的2本小說：【匈奴奇士錄】【黃玫瑰】。文中的匈牙利文當然都"走精"多多。匈奴竒士录（第二版） [電子資源] / （匈牙利）育珂摩耳原著 绍兴 周逴译上海 : 上海商務印書館, 1915周作人译文全集. 第十一卷 / 周作人译 ; 止庵编订上海 : 上海人民, 2012 總圖2F密集書庫 813 7728 v.11...
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