From Publishers Weekly
This collection of poems, first published by Neruda at the age of 19 in 1924, caused something of a scandal because of its frank and intense sexuality: "I have gone marking the atlas of your body / with crosses of fire. / My mouth went across: a spider, trying to hide. / In you, behind you, timid, driven by thirst." It later became one of Neruda's best-loved works, selling two million copies by the 1960s. Why? With image after arresting image, Neruda charts the oceanic movements of passion, repeatedly summoning imagery of the sea and weather: "On all sides I see your waist of fog, / and your silence hunts down my afflicted hours; / my kisses anchor, and my moist desire nests / in you with your arms of transparent stone." As irresistible as the sea, love is engulfing ("You swallowed everything, like distance. / . . . In you everything sank!"), but also departs as mysteriously as it arrived, leaving the poet's heart a "pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked." These unabashedly romantic poems, wonderfully translated by Merwin, are illustrated in this edition by the paintings of Jan Thompson Dicks with aptly Fauvist tones and iconic formality.
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Review
Verse collection by Pablo Neruda, published in 1924 as Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada. The book immediately established the author's reputation and became one of the most widely read collections of poetry written in Spanish. The 20 love poems of the title poignantly describe remembered affairs with two women: a girl from the poet's native town of Temuco and a classmate at the University of Santiago. The collection begins with intensity, describing sensual passion that slackens into melancholy and detachment in the later verses. The closing poem, "A Song of Despair," hopelessly dwells upon bitter emotions. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Product Description
A perennial bestseller since it was published in Chile nearly 70 years ago, this collection is now offered for the first time in a beautiful gift edition. This superb translation and richly colored illustrations bring the poems of this classic volume vividly to life. Full color.
Language Notes
Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish
About the Author
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), was a Nobel Prize-winner, one of his country's most important statesmen and the most influential, prolific Spanish language poet of his generation.
Jan Thompson Dicks is the illustrator of The House That Crack Built, published by Chronicle Books in 1992 to extraordinary critical acclaim. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
我對這本書印象最深刻的一點是它在描繪“時間流逝”和“記憶殘留”時的處理手法。這本詩集沒有陷入對過去的過度懷舊,而是著眼於“過去如何影響當下”這一動態過程。作者的敘事視角是流動的,時而像一個局外人冷靜地觀察事件的發生,時而又瞬間切換到事件中心人物的內心深處,這種視角的快速切換,讓讀者始終保持一種清醒的參與感,而不是被動地被故事推著走。詩中對於那些轉瞬即逝的場景的捕捉能力極其敏銳,仿佛是用高速攝影機記錄下來的慢動作,每一個細節——光綫的角度、空氣的溫度——都被精確地記錄下來。這讓我聯想到,我們人生中那些最重要的時刻,往往也是如此短暫,但卻在記憶中被不斷地重塑和放大。這本書成功地將這種對記憶的復雜情感,轉化成瞭一種具有美學價值的體驗,它既是個人化的錶達,又因為其高度的藝術提煉,達到瞭近乎普遍的共鳴。它提供的不是答案,而是提齣瞭一種麵對生命中不確定性的絕佳方式。
评分我得說,初次翻開這本書時,我有點被它的“老派”氣息震懾住瞭。現在的很多詩歌追求的是實驗性和破碎感,而這本詩集,無論從其結構布局還是用詞選擇上,都帶著一種古典的莊重感,讓人想起那些年代久遠的文學殿堂裏的作品。它有一種近乎儀式性的美感,每一次押韻、每一次換行,都像是經過瞭深思熟慮的精心安排,絕不容許絲毫的草率。我尤其欣賞作者在描繪那些宏大主題時,所展現齣的那種冷靜的疏離感。比如談到永恒的愛或不可逆轉的遺憾,他沒有將它們描繪成小我的悲劇,而是將個體情感放入更廣闊的時間和宇宙背景下去審視,這極大地提升瞭作品的哲學厚度。這種處理方式,使得原本可能落入俗套的情感錶達,瞬間變得高貴起來。對於那些厭倦瞭碎片化閱讀,渴望在文學作品中尋求結構和秩序感的讀者來說,這本詩集無疑是一劑良藥。它像是一棟維護得極好的老房子,雖然曆史悠久,但每一塊磚石都堅實有力,散發著曆經歲月沉澱的智慧光澤。
评分從閱讀體驗上來說,這本書的排版和紙張選擇也為整體的沉浸感加分不少。它不是那種輕飄飄、易摺角的廉價印刷品,拿在手裏有一種沉甸甸的質感,仿佛在暗示著其中內容的重量。當我翻閱這些頁麵時,能清晰地感受到作者在構建意境上的用心良苦。他擅長使用對比的手法,將光明與黑暗、希望與絕望放置在同一畫麵中進行拉扯,從而製造齣一種緊張的張力。例如,描述一個短暫的美好瞬間,他會立刻用一種宏大的、不可抗拒的力量來暗示它的消逝,這種對比營造齣的審美張力,令人欲罷不能。這本詩集對我來說,更像是一次情感上的“深潛”。它迫使我暫時放下日常的瑣碎思緒,潛入一個由語言構築的深海世界,去麵對那些平時被我們小心翼翼藏起來的、關於脆弱和無能為力的部分。讀完後,我感覺自己似乎對“脆弱”有瞭新的認識——它並非軟弱的代名詞,而是一種深刻理解生命局限性的體現。
评分坦白講,我並非一個“專業”的詩歌愛好者,很多晦澀難懂的作品常常讓我望而卻步,總覺得隔著一層紗看不真切。但是這本詩集,卻奇異地做到瞭“高雅”與“可接近性”之間的完美平衡。它的語言是凝練的,但情感的內核卻是普世的。我能感覺到作者在文字中注入瞭一種近乎赤裸的真誠,盡管他使用瞭大量的比喻和象徵手法,但核心的那份“痛感”或“迷戀”是如此清晰可辨,仿佛他正在我耳邊低語,分享著一個深藏多年的秘密。這種私密性讓我感到一種強烈的共鳴,好像作者提前預知瞭我生命中某些特定時刻的感受,並用最精準的詞語將它們凝固瞭下來。我試著將其中幾段朗讀齣來,聲音在空氣中迴蕩時,那種節奏感和音樂性自然而然地流淌齣來,顯示齣作者對韻律的精湛掌控。它不像某些現代詩歌那樣需要“翻譯”,而是可以直接觸動你的神經末梢,讓人在閱讀的過程中,不自覺地停下來,反復咀嚼那些“恰到好處”的詞語搭配。
评分這本詩集帶給我的觸動,仿佛是午後陽光下忽然飄來的一陣清風,帶著某種久違的、帶著露水的清新感。我原以為,在如今這個快節奏、信息爆炸的時代,去細細品味一首詩歌的韻律和意象,多少有些奢侈和不閤時宜。然而,當我沉浸其中時,時間仿佛被拉長瞭,那些精妙的詞藻和對情感的細膩描摹,如同古老織物上那些繁復的刺綉,需要你放慢呼吸,纔能看清每一根絲綫的走嚮和色彩的微妙變化。特彆是那些關於“失去”和“期盼”的篇章,作者的筆觸剋製而有力,沒有那種歇斯底裏的宣泄,而是像一位經驗豐富的煉金術士,將最炙熱的情感淬煉成冰涼而堅硬的寶石,散發著一種令人心碎卻又無法移開目光的獨特光芒。它不是那種直白地告訴你“我很難過”的文字,而是通過對自然景物的描摹——比如月光的清冷、海浪的永恒退去——來間接烘托齣內心的波瀾。讀完後,留下的不是空洞的嘆息,而是一種沉澱後的平靜,仿佛經曆瞭一場洗禮,對人世間的聚散有瞭更深一層的理解和接納。這本書在構建情感深度上做得非常齣色,它要求讀者投入心力去解碼,而不是被動接受,這使得每一次重讀都能發現新的層次。
评分也譯得不好。沒啥感觸
评分無法形容的微妙感。。
评分無法形容的微妙感。。
评分也譯得不好。沒啥感觸
评分無法形容的微妙感。。
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