散文一集

by Mu Xin, 木心

木心（一九二七 ~ 二○一一）

　　浙江烏鎮人，上海美術專科學校西畫系畢業，曾任職工藝美術中心、藝術雜誌社，後在大學主講美學理論。一九八二年起長住紐約，並積極重拾舊業創作散文與小說，二○○五年返烏鎮定居。

　　木心以充沛的感情投諸文學，文字亮麗鮮明，語法曲折有力，時有超越尋常的觀察，和出人意表的見解，想像豐富，音響流暢，自成現代文壇健筆。

　　為紀念木心，洪範依其一九八六年初版∕親手設計，重新印行《散文一集》與《瓊美卡隨想錄》二書；珍貴的經典復刻版外，《散文一集》並加印木心當年設計之另一封面，供讀者收藏選擇。

246 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 2012

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

[Ally Yang · Rating 4 out of 5]

人之著書非為稻粱謀，多半是在寫信給未來的親友，曹雪芹致我以長簡，燒了一半還有八十回。

[Citron Pineapple · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s incredibly avant-garde even in these days. Refreshing, humorous, witty with sharp observations. Must read.

[Duuua · Rating 5 out of 5]

借標《同情中斷錄》：全都在講失去，上海那篇痛心疾首看得有些好笑了（那今日上海又算什麼）。By the way 好像沒人提過木心是bisexual… 看克里斯多夫那篇才知道的。看完一大半之後斷了很久才又重啟，估計當時沒力氣看下去了。最後一篇極其辛辣悲涼，但木心寫得十分克制，唉。