木心(1927—2011),原籍浙江,上海美术专科学校毕业。在“文革”囚禁期间,用白纸画了钢琴的琴键,无声弹奏莫扎特与巴赫。陈丹青说,“他挚爱文学到了罪孽的地步,一如他罪孽般与世隔绝”。生前最后时光,留下木心纪录片(Dreaming Against the World)。 因《中国好歌曲》学员刘胡轶为木心小诗《从前慢》谱曲弹唱,导师刘欢在羊年春晚进一步演唱,热到如今,微信刷屏。 著有《哥伦比亚的倒影》、《琼美卡随想录》、《温莎墓园日记》、《即兴判断》、《西班牙三棵树》、《素履之往》、《我纷纷的情欲》、《鱼丽之宴》(以上为第一批简体字版木心作品,即“木心作品一辑八种”),有《诗经演》、《巴珑》、《伪所罗门书》、《云雀叫了一整天》、《爱默生家的恶客》(以上为第二批简体字版木心作品,即“木心作品二辑五种”),及木心讲述、陈丹青笔录的《文学回忆录》等书。 木心说:“贝聿铭先生一生的各个阶段,都是对的;我一生的各个阶段,全是错的。”这不是反讽,而是实话,因为实话,尤甚于反讽——50年代末,他躲在家偷学意识流写作;60年代“文革”前夕,他与人彻夜谈论叶慈、艾略特、斯宾格勒、普鲁斯特、阿赫玛托娃;70年代他被单独囚禁时,偷偷书写文学手稿,令人惊怵不已;80年代末,他年逾花甲,生存焦虑远甚于流落异国的壮年人,可他讲了五年文学课……《文学回忆录》这本书,布满木心始终不渝的名姓,而他如数家珍的文学圣家族,完全不知道怎样持久地影响了这个人。
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.