伪所罗门书：不期然而然的个人成长史

by Mu Xin

木心是近年来被发掘出的华文大家，他厚实的中西文化背景，华瞻洗练的语言，宏阔的视野，倾倒了陈村、何立伟、陈丹青、阿城等一批内地作家，陈丹青曾形容其文章为“中国风骨，世界观念”，可说是抓住了木心文章的精髓。其著有《散文一集》、《琼美卡随想录》、《即兴判断》、《温莎墓园》、《素履之往》、《巴珑》、《会吾中》等。木心先生的写作生涯超过六十年，早期作品全部散失，但八十年代再度写作后，台湾为他出版了多达十余种文集。 本书为其的《伪所罗门书》诗集。

259 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2013

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.