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- Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian author. The winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, ... Wikipedia
- Born: July 10, 1931 (age 82), Wingham, Ontario, CanadaNationality: CanadianAwards: Man Booker International Prize, MoreSpouse: Gerald Fremlin (m. 1976–2013), James Munro (m. 1951–1972)
“女人谈论生老病死”
门罗出生在渥太华，大部分时间都在这个安静的城市度过。她的小说写得也都是这个城市郊区小镇上演的平民中的爱情、家庭日常生活，而涉及的却都是和生老病死相关的严肃主题。这个女作家的笔触简单朴素，但却细腻地刻画出生活平淡真实的面貌，给人带来很真挚深沉的情感，简单的文字带来丰厚的情感，这恰好显示了文学最本质的能量。很多人把她和写美国南方生活的福克纳和奥康纳相比，而美国犹太作家辛西娅·奥齐克甚至将门罗称为“当代契诃夫”，而在很多欧美媒体的评论中，都毫不吝啬地给了她“当代最伟大小说家”的称号。
门罗写的大部分是女人的故事，她的早期创作中，是一些刚刚进入家庭生活的女孩子，为爱情、性、背叛、孩子等苦恼；到后期，则是在中年危机和琐碎生活中挣扎的女性，但她们都有着欲望和遗憾，有着强大和软弱之处。
门罗的小说并不特别重视情节，更多是利用时空转换，将记忆和现实生活打碎重新组合，这也表现了她想表现的观点：看世界，或许有新的角度，文学就可以帮助人们重新认识世界。她曾经在一篇散文中介绍读小说的方式：“小说不像一条道路，它更像一座房子。你走进里面，待一小会儿，这边走走，那边转转，观察房间和走廊间的关联，然后再望向窗外，看看从这个角度看，外面的世界发生了什么变化。”
讲述平凡女性的命运
《逃离》(RUNAWAY)是爱丽丝·门罗2004年的作品，全书由8个短篇小说组成，其中的3篇互有关联。该书将于近期由北京十月文艺出版社出版，著名翻译家李文俊翻译，本文为该书译后记。
近年来，在美国的重要文学刊物如《纽约客》、《大西洋月刊》、《巴黎评论》上，都可以经常读到爱丽丝·门罗的作品。美国一年一度出版的《××××年最佳短篇小说集》中，也多会收入她的作品。她几乎每隔两三年便有新的小说集出版，曾三次获得加拿大最重要的总督奖，两次获得吉勒奖。2004年第二次获吉勒奖即是因为这本《逃离》，评委们对此书的赞语是“故事令人难忘，语言精确而有独到之处，朴实而优美，读后令人回味无穷。” 我国的《世界文学》等刊物也多次对她的作品有过翻译与评介。可以说，门罗在英语小说界的地位已经得到确立，在英语短篇小说创作方面可称得上“力拔头筹”，已经有人在称呼她是“我们的契诃夫”(美国女作家辛西娅·奥齐克语)。英国女作家A.S。拜厄特亦赞誉她为“在世的最伟大的短篇小说作家”。
http://domestic.kankanews.com/c/2013-10-10/0042927734.shtml
门罗出生在渥太华，大部分时间都在这个安静的城市度过。她的小说写得也都是这个城市郊区小镇上演的平民中的爱情、家庭日常生活，而涉及的却都是和生老病死相关的严肃主题。这个女作家的笔触简单朴素，但却细腻地刻画出生活平淡真实的面貌，给人带来很真挚深沉的情感，简单的文字带来丰厚的情感，这恰好显示了文学最本质的能量。很多人把她和写美国南方生活的福克纳和奥康纳相比，而美国犹太作家辛西娅·奥齐克甚至将门罗称为“当代契诃夫”，而在很多欧美媒体的评论中，都毫不吝啬地给了她“当代最伟大小说家”的称号。
门罗写的大部分是女人的故事，她的早期创作中，是一些刚刚进入家庭生活的女孩子，为爱情、性、背叛、孩子等苦恼；到后期，则是在中年危机和琐碎生活中挣扎的女性，但她们都有着欲望和遗憾，有着强大和软弱之处。
门罗的小说并不特别重视情节，更多是利用时空转换，将记忆和现实生活打碎重新组合，这也表现了她想表现的观点：看世界，或许有新的角度，文学就可以帮助人们重新认识世界。她曾经在一篇散文中介绍读小说的方式：“小说不像一条道路，它更像一座房子。你走进里面，待一小会儿，这边走走，那边转转，观察房间和走廊间的关联，然后再望向窗外，看看从这个角度看，外面的世界发生了什么变化。”
讲述平凡女性的命运
《逃离》(RUNAWAY)是爱丽丝·门罗2004年的作品，全书由8个短篇小说组成，其中的3篇互有关联。该书将于近期由北京十月文艺出版社出版，著名翻译家李文俊翻译，本文为该书译后记。
近年来，在美国的重要文学刊物如《纽约客》、《大西洋月刊》、《巴黎评论》上，都可以经常读到爱丽丝·门罗的作品。美国一年一度出版的《××××年最佳短篇小说集》中，也多会收入她的作品。她几乎每隔两三年便有新的小说集出版，曾三次获得加拿大最重要的总督奖，两次获得吉勒奖。2004年第二次获吉勒奖即是因为这本《逃离》，评委们对此书的赞语是“故事令人难忘，语言精确而有独到之处，朴实而优美，读后令人回味无穷。” 我国的《世界文学》等刊物也多次对她的作品有过翻译与评介。可以说，门罗在英语小说界的地位已经得到确立，在英语短篇小说创作方面可称得上“力拔头筹”，已经有人在称呼她是“我们的契诃夫”(美国女作家辛西娅·奥齐克语)。英国女作家A.S。拜厄特亦赞誉她为“在世的最伟大的短篇小说作家”。
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“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway
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“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.”
― Alice Munro
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“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”
― Alice Munro
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“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. ”
― Alice Munro, Away from Her
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“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Alice Munro
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“Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.”
― Alice Munro
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“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”
― Alice Munro
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“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
― Alice Munro, Open Secrets
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“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
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“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
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“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all.
The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.
This is what happens.
...
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway
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“If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.”
― Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman
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“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
”
― Alice Munro
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“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
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“His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
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“For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief. ”
― Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman
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“He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life. ”
― Alice Munro, Away from Her
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“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro
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“People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.”
― Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth
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“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness
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“Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway
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“There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.”
― Alice Munro
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“I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.”
― Alice Munro
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“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.”
― Alice Munro, Dear Life: Stories
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“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
― Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
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“He loved her for her wit, her cynicism, her deceptions. Less than lovable these seem to me now. They are both sly, Hugh and Margaret, they are socially awkward, easily embarrassed. But cold underneath, you may be sure, colder than us easy flirts with our charms and conquests. They do not reveal themselves. They will never admit to anything, never have to talk about anything, no, I could claw their skin and it would be my own fingers that would bleed. I could scream at them till my throat bursts and never alter their self-possession, change the look of their sly averted faces. Both blond, both easy blushers, both cold mockers. They have contempt for me. That is rubbish of course. Nothing for me. All for each other. Love.”
― Alice Munro
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“What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.”
― Alice Munro
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“The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.”
― Alice Munro, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories
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“As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in the dangers, how often they must think about the possibilities.”
― Alice Munro
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“Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”
― Alice Munro