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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:28 pm Post subject: 2013年諾貝爾文學獎得主:加拿大女作家孟洛Alice Munro |
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加拿大女作家孟洛(Alice Munro),「當代短篇故事大師」,獲得二○一三年諾貝爾文學獎。
八十二歲的孟洛出生於加拿大安大略省文罕(Wingham),現住在安省西南的克林頓
(Clinton)。她最廣為人知的短篇小說作品,包括《快樂陰影的舞蹈》、《女孩和女
人的生活》、《你認為你是誰?》等,有著清晰及心理寫實特色。她是二○○九年布克國
際獎得主,並三度獲得加拿大總督獎。
孟洛在平凡艱苦的生活中,學著以異常敏銳的觀察力,將日常生活瑣碎的人事物詳實記
錄以為創作素材,若干文學評論家將她視為加拿大的契可夫(Chekhov)。她經常以小
鎮為故事背景,其中的人物勉力爭取社會認同,結果導致人際關係緊張和道德衝突,這
都是世代差異及生命期許矛盾所造成的問題。
孟洛寫的大部分是女人的故事,她的早期創作中,是一些剛剛進入家庭生活的女孩子,
為愛情、性、背叛、孩子等苦惱;到後期,則是在中年危機和瑣碎生活中掙扎的女性,
但她們都有著慾望和遺憾,有著強大和軟弱之處。
孟洛的小說並不特別重視情節,更多是利用時空轉換,將記憶和現實生活打碎重新組合,
這也突顯了她想表現的觀點:看世界,或許有新的角度,文學就可以幫助人們重新認識
世界。她曾經在一篇散文中介紹讀小說的方式:「小說不像一條道路,它更像一座房子。
你走進裡面,稍待一會兒,這邊走走,那邊轉轉,觀察房間和走廊間的關聯,然後再望
向窗外,從這個角度看,外面的世界發生了什麼變化。」
對於她的作品,布克國際獎評語是:「每讀艾莉絲‧孟洛的小說,便知道生命中曾經疏忽
遺忘太多事情。」
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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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孟若出生於安大略省中西部的農場,父親以養殖狐狸維生,母親曾擔任學校教師。孟若
從青少年時期便開始寫作,就讀大學時發表了她的第一篇作品〈影子維度〉(The
Dimensions of a Shadow)。
孟若是少數長期專注於短篇小說創作的作家,諾貝爾委員會讚譽她為「現代短篇小說的
大師」。她的故事主題多半圍繞在加拿大安大略省西南部農業小鎮的女孩與婦女生活。
被文壇譽為加拿大的契訶夫(Anton Chekhov:俄國短篇小說家),在她細膩的文筆
下,寧靜小鎮上平凡人物個個活出了令人驚奇的不平凡經歷;簡短的篇幅,卻道盡了深
刻的絕望、剝削、疏離、與背叛。
加拿大另一位知名女性作家瑪格麗特.愛特伍(Margaret Atwood)曾形容,孟若的
短篇作品讓我們看到了對人性陰暗、鄙陋、仇恨的揭露,對於情欲私密的描述,對於已
成過去的不幸遭遇的執著,但同時也看到了對生命完滿與多彩多姿的無限欣喜。
1968年,孟若出版了第一本短篇小說集《快樂影子舞》(Dance of the Happy Shades),
最新的一部作品為2012年出版的《親愛的生活》(Dear Life)。她的短篇小說〈來自
遠山的熊〉(The Bear Came Over the Mountain),2006年時曾被改編拍成電影
《妳的樣子》(Away from Her),描繪阿茲海默症如何對結縭數十年的老夫老妻造
成衝擊。
目前在台灣,僅有出版她兩本著作,分別是《感情遊戲》(Hateship, Friendship,
Courtship, Loveship, Marriage)與《出走》(Runaway)。(吳凱琳編譯)
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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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Hearing the news that she had won the Nobel Prize while staying in Victoria
was the completion of a literary circle for Ms. Munro, the author of 14 books
and the winner of a bevy of other literary laurels, including the Giller (twice)
and the international Man Booker Prize for a body of work in 2009. It was
while she was living in Victoria with her first husband, James Munro, raising
their three daughters and working in their bookstore, that she published
her first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, in 1968.
Mr. Munro and Alice Laidlaw met at the University of Western Ontario,
married in 1951 and moved to Vancouver, his hometown, before relocating
to Victoria, where he still lives with his second wife, fabric artist Carole
Sabiston. He continues to own and operate Munro’s Books, a prominent
independent bookstore now located in a former bank in the heart of the
provincial capital.
“In terms of the quality of her writing, it is as good as any of the people
who have won the Nobel and better than some,” he said. “She was always
writing stories,” he recalled. “Way back in the 1950s she wrote a story
called Thanks for the Ride. It was in her first collection. I read that story
and I thought this story is as good as any story I have read – I was a big
fan of short stories – better than Updike or anybody.”
After the Munros divorced in 1972, she moved back to Ontario and settled
with her second husband, Gerald Fremlin, in Clinton, near Wingham, the
town where she had been born in 1931. Mr. Fremlin died in April. Earlier
this fall, Ms. Munro travelled with her daughter Jenny Munro to Victoria,
where she plans to spend the winter with her eldest daughter, writer
Sheila Munro.
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