دو نمایش‌نامه نو و درآمدی بر درام نو

by Donald Keene, مقداد جاوید صباغیان (Translator)

گونه های گوناگون درام را به‌دشواری می‌توان تا به‌تنهایی در کلام به‌وصف آورد. به‌ناگزیر قسمت مهمی از اثرگذاری درام بسته است به دریافت‌های حسانی و بدنی - نماها یا نزدیکی به سایر تماشاگرانی که آواهایی که گوش یا چشم را برمیخورند و یا حتی صرفا در تجربه‌ای مشابه سهیم هستند. آهنگ ادای کلمه یا عبارتی به‌توسط بازیگر؛ حرکات و حالات نه‌چندان‌ محسوس اما اثرگذار و بیانگر اندام، که ادای کلمات را همراه می‌شود و یا فاصلهٔ گذشت زمان میان صدای کوبهٔ در تا لحظه‌ای که آگاه می‌شویم چه‌کس در سوی دیگر ایستاده است؛ هر یک قادر هستند میزان و چگونگی توفیق یک نمایش را تعیین کنند و تعین بخشند.

99 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Donald Keene was a renowned American-born Japanese scholar, translator, and historian of Japanese literature. Born in Brooklyn in 1922, he developed a love for foreign cultures early in life. He graduated from Columbia University in 1942 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, where he studied Japanese at the Navy Language School. After the war, he returned to Columbia for his master’s and later earned a second master’s at Cambridge, followed by a PhD from Columbia in 1949. He studied further at Kyoto University and became a leading authority on Japanese literature.
Keene taught at Columbia University for over fifty years and published extensively in both English and Japanese, introducing countless readers to Japanese classics. His mentors included Ryusaku Tsunoda and Arthur Waley, whose translations deeply influenced him. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Keene retired from Columbia, moved to Japan, and became a Japanese citizen under the name Kīn Donarudo. He was awarded the Order of Culture in 2008, the first non-Japanese recipient. Keene remained active in literary and cultural life in Japan until his death in 2019 at the age of 96.