谢默斯·希尼的书信 1995年诺贝尔文学奖 The Letters of Seamus Heaney

基本信息

Format:Hardback 848 pages

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571341085

Published:5 Oct 2023

Weight:1116g

Dimensions:242 x 165 x 38 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

每隔一段时间，我就需要到这里来，到第欧根尼的浴缸里去，或者到科姆西尔的蜂房里去，或者到莫斯本的厨房里去。无论如何，篱笆包围着我，黑鸟在叫......。

谢默斯 希尼虽然声名显赫，但他似乎从未失去写私人信件的强烈需求。从他早年在贝尔法斯特的生活，到他颇受争议的定居共和国的决定，再到他逐渐开阔的视野，获得诺贝尔文学奖和多年的国际赞誉，直至去世。

编辑克里斯托弗-里德（Christopher Reid）从公共和私人档案中汲取素材，用诗人自己的话揭示了这个故事。这些书信慷慨、风趣、奔放、倾诉、不苟言笑、富于同情心且深思熟虑，涵盖了他与朋友和同事长达数十年的关系，同时也展现了他对过往熟人的无微不至的回应。此外，希尼对语言的娴熟驾驭能力在这里也体现得淋漓尽致，就像他为文学读者所写的任何作品一样。

聆听希尼的声音，我们会发现自己与他共处一室，他的存在极大地丰富了世界，他的遗产将继续加深我们对真正重要事物的认识。

Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls . . .

For all his public eminence, Seamus Heaney seems never to have lost the compelling need to write personal letters. In this ample but discriminating selection from fifty years of his correspondence, we are given access as never before to the life and poetic development of a literary titan - from his early days in Belfast, through his controversial decision to settle in the Republic, to the gradual broadening of horizons that culminated in the award of a Nobel Prize and the years of international acclaim that kept him heroically busy until his death.

Editor Christopher Reid draws from both public and private archives to reveal this story in the poet's own words. Generous, funny, exuberant, confiding, irreverent, empathetic and deeply thoughtful, the letters encompass decades-long relationships with friends and colleagues, as well as showing an unstinted responsiveness to passing acquaintances. Moreover, Heaney's joyous mastery of language is as evident here as it is in any of his writing for a literary readership.

Listening to Heaney's voice, we find ourselves in the same room as a man whose presence, when he lived, enriched the world immeasurably, and whose legacy continues to deepen our sense of what truly matters.

作者简介

谢默斯·希尼 1939 年出生于北爱尔兰的德里郡。他的书《一个自然主义者之死》于 1966 年出版。此后，他陆续发表了诗歌、评论和翻译作品，并因此于 1995 年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他凭借《精神层面》（1996 年）和《贝奥武夫》（1999 年）获得惠特布莱德年度图书奖。他的第十二本新集《区与圈》于 2006 年 4 月出版。

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his book, appeared in 1966. Since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). His twelfth and new collection, District and Circle, was published in April 2006.