加载中…【Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin=乔万尼的房间】
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Ages ago, in another city, on another bus, I sat so at the windows,
looking outward, inventing for each flying face which trapped my
brief attention some life, some destiny, in which I played a
part.
We had bought a kilo of cherries
and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both
insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and the
spectacle we presented, two grown men, jostling each other on the
wide sidewalk, and aiming the cherry-pips, as though they were
spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous. And
I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the
happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I
really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he
was that afternoon. And, watching his face, I realized that it
meant much to me that I could make his face so bright. I saw that I
might be willing to give a great deal not to loose that power. I
felt myself flow toward him, as a river rushes when the ice breaks
up
作者简介
詹姆斯．Ａ．鲍德温（James Arthur Baldwin, 1924-1987）生于二十世纪二O年代美国纽约的哈林区，成为哈林文艺运动晚期最具代表性的名字。家中九个小孩的长子，母亲为人帮佣，随后改嫁，他跟 随继父姓氏，14岁时，跟随地方教堂牧师的继父，开始传道，直到19岁完全放弃，矢志成为作家。花了大量时间在图书馆嗜读以及写作，并于1943年开始以 写作维生。出身贫苦，从原本居住的黑人哈林区搬家到格林威治村，认识作家里查．莱特，因其引介，得到奖助金前往巴黎，并在此开始专心撰写长篇小说和精彩论 文。鲍德温随后多年一直旅居欧陆，包括巴黎、伦敦、伊斯坦堡等地，自我认定为「非裔美国人」(African-American)，其黑色印烙的皮肤让他 永远处于「异乡的异乡人」，笔锋细腻而充满苦痛和感情，他于巴黎完成的第一本长篇Go Tell It on the Mountain出版于1953年，充满他自身早年的自传经验，至今仍是鲍德温评价最高的经典，自称「要是我还想继续写作的话，这本我是我必写的作品」， 其中黑人福音音乐深入他的骨髓当中，使他的文字充满诗的质地和音乐节奏，其根源更推溯到早年黑奴的赋格式叙事传统；且几乎就在同时，他也出版他最经典的论 文集Notes For a Native Son。他经常将「自己」丢进这个上帝眼睑底下的炼狱，以「自传性」的素材和第一人称格的「我」探触内在最深处的生命体验，解剖社会的不义和偏见。以其深 省、优美、深邃而充满诗一般「衷心原点」的文字，对挣扎的灵魂充满巨大的同情心，其中深沈的悲伤--「从一个受害者如何变成一个威胁者」--鲍德温以其小 说和论文见称，代表作包括有长篇小说《乔凡尼的房间》、Another Country，论文集Notes For a Native Son以及The Fire Next Time等等。其作品丰富而多样，他还写过不少舞台剧本、一本童书和一卷诗集。1987年十一月三十日因胃癌，詹姆斯`鲍德温死于法国南边城市。
详见维基百科：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni's_Room
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