文学回忆录（下）

by Mu Xin

文学是可爱的。生活是好玩的。艺术是要有所牺牲的。
八十年代末，木心客居纽约时期，亦自他恢复写作、持续出书以来，纽约地面的大陆和台湾同行在异国谋饭之中，居然促成木心开讲“世界文学史”，忽忽长达五年的一场“文学的远征”——从1989年1月15日开课，到1994年1月9日最后一课，每位听课人轮流提供自家客厅，在座者有画家、舞蹈家、史家、雕刻家等等。
听课学生陈丹青说，“我们当年这样地胡闹一场，回想起来，近于荒谬的境界：没有注册，没有教室，没有课本，没有考试与证书，更没有赞助与课题费，不过是在纽约市皇后区、曼哈顿区、布鲁克林区的不同寓所中，团团坐拢来，听木心神聊。”
菜单开出来，大家选。从古希腊神话、新旧约，到诗经、楚辞，从中世纪欧洲文学，到二十世纪文学世界，东方西方通讲，知识灵感并作。其中听的听，讲的讲，“金句”纷披，兀自燃烧。“讲完后，一部文学史，重要的是我的观点。”木心说。古代，中世纪，近代，每个时代都能找到精神血统，艺术亲人。
他爱先秦典籍，只为诸子的文学才华；他以为今日所有伪君子身上，仍然活着孔丘；他想对他爱敬的尼采说：从哲学跑出来吧；他激赏拜伦、雪莱、海涅，却说他们其实不太会作诗；他说托尔斯泰可惜“头脑不

Genres: Nonfiction

1102 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2014

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

[FSLi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, the author read so many books from around the whole world, all famous books, all famous authors, in English, in Chinese, in Russia. And so many books from ancient Europe, mid age, ancient China, almost all the famous books in the whole 5000 years China history. He compare them with his own eye. I assume in the whole world there is possible only him, no others, stand so high to look down the whole world art, music...

[Xinyi Zhang]

涨了不少知识呢，不过还是需要自己看才行。有一句话说的挺好，一入主义就落下乘。好的作品不需要标榜什么的主义，托尔斯泰看那么多哲学书，但是他的小说却不会谈这些。

[Toni Zzz · Rating 5 out of 5]

比起文学史，更可贵的是认识了木心先生。亦师亦友，读完惜别，受益良多。

[Xy]

涨了不少知识呢，不过还是需要自己看才行。有一句话说的挺好，一入主义就落下乘。好的作品不需要标榜什么的主义，托尔斯泰看那么多哲学书，但是他的小说却不会谈这些。