TA的每日心情 | 奋斗
2018-5-18 05:02 |
|---|
签到天数: 27 天 [LV.4]偶尔看看III
版主
 
- 积分
- 8680
|
本帖最后由 GL_n 于 2018-6-19 09:00 编辑
杨宪益英文自传 White Tiger
前面在写关于葛先生书的文章中提到过杨宪益先生，这是一个很有个性的人。他写过一部自传，叫《White Tiger》，很值得一看。
在我印象中（仅我看过的范围），中译英，质量好且量比较大的，就仨人：杨宪益、许渊冲、徐梵澄。这三人的英文水平，都是登堂入室级别的，其译文皆可传世。杨宪益先生的这本英文自传，文笔不错，文气流畅，行文平实简洁，但又不会令人厌倦，颇有斯威夫特之风。自传最先用英文出版，后来好像还出了一个意大利语的版本。
他出生于天津的一个望族，使得其中学毕业后即有条件去英国留学。不久考入牛津墨顿学院，研究关于古希腊罗马的古典学问，以实现自己年轻时候的喜爱和梦想，回国后才做起翻译的营生。有人或许会感叹他在政治上的幼稚，以及因此而受到的很多苦，但这种事情，自古难全，这种事情上的幼稚，于一个人的学问和天才的见解，并无阻碍，就连伟大的Grothendieck这般巨人，在政治上也是一个侏儒。
在牛津他认识了一个优雅而又有学识的英国女子，才子佳人，互生倾慕，爱意渐深，后终结良缘。这些在自传中都有描述。看这些早年在欧洲留学的民国学子们后来回忆（或者被他人回忆）其留学生涯，着实过瘾。我记得徐梵澄先生在回忆鲁迅的文章中，也提过一点关于他在德国海德堡的留学生活，其中印象比较深的是，他说牢记鲁迅对他的教导，在德国奋发读书，勇猛精进，从来没有做过关起门来炖牛肉的事儿，令我印象非常深刻，余波及于现实生活，虽然自己也做饭，但从来没有关起门来炖过牛肉。固然有东施效颦之嫌，但于我自己，是一种执念，亦是一种自我之鞭策，古人不都说了嘛，“君子终日乾乾，夕惕若厉，无咎”。人，有时候需要一点恰当的仪式感。
杨宪益在这本自传中，还提及了很多有趣的事情，有国外的，也有国内的；有自己的，也有朋辈的。比如，他在牛津时与钱钟书夫妇的相识，与萧乾的交往，在德国和希特勒同一个剧场看节目，种种国外的有趣经历；国内的，忆及他被沈从文和吴宓举荐为西南联大的教师，教古希腊语拉丁语文学课程，他与梁实秋的交往，与老舍的相识，与中共的一些政治人物的接触，以及他自己入党后来又退党的事儿，等等，不一而足。其回忆，往往轻描淡写，笔调冷峻超然，颇有旁观者所属之客观姿态，仿佛自传者可以很轻易的抛开这些陈年往事中的其人其事，然后作一潇洒回眸就相忘于江湖。这让我想起了读金克木的《 孔乙己外传》时的那种感觉，亦是同样的举重若轻的笔法和格调，历史的烟云中，一回头，已是百年身。
这本自传，好像有中文译本，不过我没有读过，不知道翻译的怎么样，以及有没有删改。我看的是纸质版的，后来在网上找到一个PDF，不过很遗憾是残本，原书328页，这个PDF电子书只有236页。里面有章节不全，不过聊胜于无吧。这本书写的很直率，里面有些回忆的段落，估计过不了大陆的出版审查这一关，比如下面这段回忆：
Running from trouble does not particularly suit my character. But because many people in China and abroad had heard my angry denunciations through the radio, my friends and relatives began to worry about my safety in case the government would come to settle accounts with me. In those early days after the massacre, many people who voiced support for the students and denounced the government were arrested and taken away to prison. People said that those who got arrested were usually brutally beaten and some were even killed. One heard all sorts of stories. It is impossible to tell which ones were true or exaggerated. Anyway many people disappeared during that period. Some may have gone into hiding while others might have arrested or killed. For over a week Beijing became a ghost city under the reign of white terror.
One evening when Gladys and I were just chatting with a neighbour, an American expert, an old friend of mine who worked in the Foreign Languages Bureau but in a different section, suddenly sent his maid over with a note. The note said that he had heard from reliable sources that the security police might come and arrest me -- either that evening or the next. In those days we heard that most people arrested were taken away at night, after ten o'clock, so that it would not cause any commotion. He suggested that I should go into hiding at once. He would send someone to fetch me at the corner of the street, and I should leave immediately, taking no luggage at all, so that it would not arouse suspicion at the bureau.
I then called Gladys to come out of the sitting room and whispered to her the content of the message. I told her not to worry, that I would come back in a few days, and there would be people passing news of my whereabouts to her. Then I left. I was met by that friend's son at the corner of the main street. It was getting dark and had started raining a bit, but there still some old people on the roadside chatting about the recent events. My friend's son made me sit on the back of his bicycle and took me to his house. I was given a room to stay in and told not to come out. They looked after me very well for two nights and told me the news they heard from outside.
In those days, there were still sounds of sporadic shooting at night. Then they heard there had been soldiers searching a peasants' hotel nearby and some people there were arrested or shot. They decided it was not safe for me to stay in that district. I must leave beijing, either to hide myself in another city or get a false passport and get out of China. I told them that I had no intention of leaving China, and certainly not with a false passport. They insisted that I must not go home for the time being. So I said I would take a trip to Changchun in the north-east to see my daughter Zhi, who had just had a new baby, and they agreed. My friend then got me a the train ticket and arranged to have a young man escort me to see that I arrived safely. They even advised me to wear dark glasses and a cap to disguise myself.
The journey went without mishap. I did not wear the cap nor the dark glasses. During that period the train authorities did have to check up on a passenger's identity so I showed them my PPCC card with my name and photograph and the examined it, but nothing happened.
PDF下载链接:https://pan.baidu.com/s/1Z1cjnTZNWQeehLwABgpRLQ 密码:xgxs
|
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.26.59.png
(1.2 MB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.26.04.png
(115.23 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.25.27.png
(839.42 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.25.15.png
(872.26 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.25.04.png
(428.3 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.24.54.png
(905.54 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.24.44.png
(541.61 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.24.36.png
(59.66 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.24.29.png
(134.33 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.24.22.png
(149.03 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.24.15.png
(116.32 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.24.02.png
(45.31 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.23.54.png
(99.02 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.23.47.png
(70.17 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.23.34.png
(50.51 KB, 下载次数: 0)
-
Screen Shot 2018-06-05 at 13.23.23.png
(226.57 KB, 下载次数: 0)
|
发表于 2018-6-6 01:02:45
发表于 2018-6-6 03:06:06
楼主
