琼美卡随想录

by Mu Xin

辑录木心散文46篇。在书中，读者可以一如既往地体会木心行文“丰沛而娴熟”的技巧，他“善用汉赋般的奇字”以及“在别人说不下去的地方说出别开生面”的话的特色。

169 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Mu Xin (1927-2011) was the pen name of a renowned Chinese diasporan writer and artist who once lived in the New York area. Mu Xin was born in Wuzhen, South China, into a wealthy aristocratic family with business interests in Shanghai. He was among the last generation to receive a classical education in the literati tradition, but he was also exposed through voluminous reading to the highest achievements of Western art and culture.

From 1947 to 1949, Mu Xin attended Shanghai Institute of the Arts. From 1949 until 1982, when he came to the United States, MuXin lived in China. Although he wrote profusely in that period, all of his earlier manuscripts were confiscated and destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Since 1982, MuXin published twelve books of fiction, prose, and poetry (in Chinese) and contributed to literary columns in Chinese journals and newspapers outside the PRC. Among the Chinese diaspora, MuXin’s works have attracted an intense following.

Few Chinese writers in modern history have as firm a mastery of the Chinese cultural and linguistic heritage as MuXin did. Innovatively combining fiction, sanwen (a Chinese genre which blends characteristics of the essay, fiction, and poetry), and philosophical reflections, MuXin’s writing is both profoundly Chinese and reminiscent of the internalization and unconventionality of Western modern masters. In addition to his literary accomplishments, MuXin was also a well recognized artist whose paintings are preserved, among other places, at Yale University and Harvard University Art Galleries.

Reviews

[Zijin · Rating 4 out of 5]

我的木心病好了。
先前看木心先生的文学回忆录的时候，听他讲尼采，讲拜伦，未免沾了些跨今古的豪气，蒙田说想认识陶渊明，我就想满腔热血给他介绍。
如今琼美卡随想录，算是他自己的作品了，虽然还是夹了上帝，夹了蒙田。头热褪去，我说木心是诗人，是形而上学家。我透过他的眼睛看世界，世界是透明的，扭曲的，有些像哈哈镜，最后映出来的还是他和我的影子叠在一起。
我说，您是二流作家，我是二流学生，这些比喻火不起来的。他笑着说，那有什么关系，我不早认笨了，愚者和疯子是受上帝庇佑的，他们眼里的世界是上帝亲手捏成的作品，不经先人手里，也到不了后人手中。
我说，好。我看向窗外的密歇根湖，他在玻璃的倒影里看我。
我的木心病好了。

[Tannis · Rating 4 out of 5]

show thinkings when he is in new york , contain some philosophie. maybe is a little difficult for foreigners to read .

[Ray Mo · Rating 3 out of 5]

本该在一个阳光明媚的地方读它，无奈不开，于是在一个很嘈杂的地方读完了它，没有任何印象。字体排版倒很适合阅读。

[Carrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

斷斷續續地把它看完。
自覺悟性不足，很多文字有看沒有懂，也是一次新體驗。這書若是放在書局/書展攤上，我近乎90%肯定我是不會看的，更遑論看畢。正因着年頭閱讀節的好書漂流活動，在已被搜略一空的活動桌上，其中留下了這本近代思想集，於是憑着有書就拿的心態下；有緣翻開此書。中途也抱着半杯疑問，不明它的來頭、魅力何在，惟游覓於網上，偷窺文字主人的生平一看，也順勢找來幾句小短評語；確有加強了繼續默默吃了此書的心思。
對於此書，本人能撮的結論有限，它是界乎於詩作與思想文集之間，瓊美卡乃美國紐約市之小區，常見說法應為「牙買加」，然而木先生此一命名，似是將之隔開，注入他自有的看法，有獨占他心中的瓊美卡所圖；而文中蘊含之意，若沒有一貫閱覽相關文系作品之習慣非能看出個觀點來。中途闔書期間，因着接觸另一意識流巨作劉以鬯<<酒徒>>之作品，開始有了別的思路，有股不能言傳之意會在思想空間中流動、傾瀉。
我想，再過些年歲，也許其時打開會有另一風景。

[Siegfried · Rating 5 out of 5]

---Notes---

新呀 "拉得太长也没有意思吗，相约一百年如何，一件艺术品历百年依然新个不停。还太长吗，相约十年如何，何如，还嫌长？那就明天再找朋友，找对手，找冤家相约吧，不，怎么跟我约，我是那个，那个昏倒在阳台上的警察啊。"

老朋友啊，你让我一把鼻涕一把泪又特么的笑到咳嗽个不停啊。何妨以千年为期？太短么，那就从三叠纪开始，从泥盆纪开始，从寒武纪开始。如同：在以色列的沙漠里呆上四小时太短，四天太短，四十天如何，四十年如何。至少我不是一个人在沉船上跪着淹死。

[Jimmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

深人

[Iriririries Gu · Rating 5 out of 5]

个人很喜欢这本书里体现出来的辩证思维。短小精悍，每一篇都用极有趣的语言表达了深刻的思考，所谓幽默是智慧的盈余，木心先生的确博学又智慧。

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

想把「木心作品八种」整套都买下来...

[Becky]

看到這類散文都會想有人說討厭心靈雞湯，可能並不真的討厭，只是雞湯煮得太難喝。和多年前第一次讀木心的感受差不多，部分好看偶有所得，但就不會想買（超沒禮貌）。