告示牌

經過一工業大廈, 見橫斷汽車出入口的吊臂欄杆上, 分明幾個大字:

請先登記. 管理處, 轉左

簡潔凝練, 順理成章, 儼然

古道 西風 瘦馬

寫得真好.

China Pop

查建英, 中國波普
李家真譯 (BM 本事出版)

Pop 普普. 通俗流行或大眾文化.

寫得好, 譯得好, 書做得也好. 九十年代如在目前, 可謂 七十年代 八十年代 兩書之後續.

如果李家真重譯 弄潮兒, 年代系列 想必再添一員: 二千年代.

(描寫傳神, 譯筆流暢, 裝幀典雅. 佳品)

演戲的人

中華書局今年選了幾部劉以鬯的作品重排重印, 其中一本小說叫《演戲的人》, 封面一幀大大的老照片, 初以為是葛蘭. 後來看了 BM 本事出版《潮濕的記憶》劉以鬯南洋短篇全輯裡附載的相片, 方曉得原來是劉以鬯妻子, 年輕時的劉老太太舞者羅佩雲.



異哉！ 演戲的人, 寫的是戲子無情, 主角是個報館編輯, 遭不擇手段的女明星, 玩弄感情, 以致身敗名裂. 幸得舞女從良的妻子不計前嫌, 才得翻身. 書名四個大字, 配以劉太太的照片, 是何用意？ 失策失策.

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話說回來, 看封底扉頁介紹, 作品選中的三部小說, 另外兩部為《馬來姑娘》和《時代曲》. 一連三部, 俱以劉以鬯妻子年輕時的留影做封面.

劉以鬯有五年在星加坡辦報. 羅佩雲婚前為歌舞圑的舞蹈員, 曾隨圑到南洋表演, 於當地與劉以鬯結緣, 後來在香港相識. 馬來姑娘封面照片中, 羅佩雲正身穿紗籠, 搖曳起舞, 應是在南洋表演時所攝. 時代曲 則似是圑員身穿舞服的合照.

封面設計的本意雖好, 可惜到了 演戲的人, 就有點行不通了.


References:

* 謝魯八羅佩雲領導天鵝歌舞劇藝團二十五人昨抵星二十九晚起在快樂世界演出. 南洋商報 (Nanyang Siang Pau), 27 May 1956, Page 6 (source)

* 重遊星洲，追憶花樣年華——羅佩雲回到與劉以鬯的原點. 聯合早報 life style 2023年6月12日 (webpage)

* 天地圖書：《城市文藝》講座（紀念劉以鬯先生誕生106週年 香港新文學的一面旗幟——談十二卷《劉以鬯文集》的誕生）. 講者梅子及羅佩雲 (youtube)

Books

2025
Jan: Euripides's Medea (Svarlien; 呂健忠)
Jan: Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Svarlien; 呂健忠)
Jan: Saga of Volsungs (Jesse L Byock)
Mar: Nibelungenlied 1-19 (Hatto; Edwards); 20-39 (Whobrey; Edwards). Hatto's intro to 2R
Mar: Poetic Edda: Sinfiotli to end (Larrington)
Apr: Waltharius (Brian Murdoch)
Apr: Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Byock)
Apr: Nibelungenlied 1-19 + Klage (Whobrey); 1-2 (Raffel)
May: Euripides's Helen (Svarlien; Emily Wilson), Orestes (Svarlien; Ian Johnston), Ion (Svarlien); audio by Center for Hellenic Studies
May: Kudrun Part 1-2 (Whobrey)
Jul: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (方重; 李家真); Audio by Colin Gibbings
[Jul: 北島 :: 波動]
[Aug: 查建英 :: 中國波普 (李家真)]

2024
[Jan: Dragon King's Daugther (楊憲益, 戴乃迭)]
[Feb: DH Lawrence's 查泰萊 (饒述一)]
Feb: Ovid's Tristia, Ex Ponto (Slavitt)
Mar: Homeric Hymns (Jules Cashford)
Mar: Apollodorus's Library (JG Frazer); 希臘神話 (周作人)
Apr: Ovid's Amores, Cosmetics, Cures (Melville)
Apr: Song of Roland, etc (OUP Gaunt and Pratt); 羅蘭之歌 (楊憲益)
[Apr: 二葉亭四迷 :: 浮雲 (石堅白)]
[Apr: 夏目漱石 :: 心 (林皎碧)]
May: Death of King Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Simon Armitage)
May: King Lear (孫大雨)
[May: Peter Brook's Open Door (于東田)]
Jun: Mahabharata: 摩訶婆羅多毗濕摩篇 (黃寶生); Retold by Devdutt Pattanaik (余淑慧), by Rajaji (唐季雍), by Carriere/Peter Brook
Jun: 第十二夜 (方平); 元宵 (陳均潤)
[Jul: James Joyce's Dubliners: Sis. to Mother]
[Aug: Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms; 戰地春夢 (湯新楣)]
[Aug: 格非::雪隱鷺鷥卷一, 卷三]
Sept: Pearl (Jane Draycott)
[Sept: OUP vsi: Vatican II, Angels]
[Oct: TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral]
Oct: Dante's Inferno (Allen Mandelbaum)
Oct: Euripides's Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women (DA Svarlien); Marina Carr's Hecuba
Nov: Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (AE Stallings)
Dec: Dante's Purgatorio (Durling; Merwin; 黃國彬; 田德望; 朱維基); Audio by Lucilla Giagnoni
Dec: Euripides's Alcestis (DA Svarlien; Ted Hugh)


2023
Jan: 歷史書 (前先知書) (馮象)
Jan: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Stephanie McCarter)
[Jan: 白先勇::臺北人]
Feb: Keats 濟慈詩選 (查良錚)
Feb: Ovid's Fasti (Anne Wiseman)
Feb: Samuel 1, ch.1-14 (Everett Fox)
Apr: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Allen Mandelbaum)
Jun: Apollonius of Rhodes's Jason and Argonauts (Aaron Poochigian)
[Jul: 三毛::撒哈拉歲月, 稻草人的微笑, 夢中的橄欖樹, 快樂鬧學去, 萬水千山走遍, 流浪的終站]
[Aug: 賀喜, 科大衛::秘密社會的秘密]
Aug: Virgil's Aeneid (David West)
Sept: Sophocles's Oedipus the King (Berg and Clay)
[Sept: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (何瑄)]
Oct: Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautika, Bk 1--2 (Peter Green)
Nov: Iliad (Emily Wilson); Bk 1--7 (呂健忠)
Nov: Horace's Epodes and Odes (David West)
[Nov: 尚仲賢::柳毅傳書雜劇; Liu Yi and Dragon Princess (David Hawkes)]
Dec: Dante's Purgatorio (Sisson)
[Dec: 巴爾扎克::都爾的本堂神甫, 比哀蘭德 (傅雷)]
[Dec: Hammett's The Maltese Falcan]


2022
[Feb: Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs]
[Feb: Jean Webster's Dear Enemy, sequel to DLL]
Feb: Goethe's 浮士德第一部 (錢春綺)
[Mar: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Lady from the Sea, Master Builder (呂健忠)]
Apr: Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannos (Emily Wilson, 呂健忠, Dudley Fitts)
[Apr: 宋怡明::被統治的藝術]
[Jun: 格理弗遊記卷三飛行島 (單德興)]
Sept: Shakespeare's 暴風雨 (楊牧)
Sept: Virgil's Aeneid VI (Seamus Heaney)
Nov: John Milton's Paradise Lost
Nov: Lord Byron's 青銅時代, 貝波, 唐璜選段 (查良錚)
[Dec: 李零::喪家狗]
Dec: Aeschylus's Oresteia (呂健忠)
Dec: Sophocles's Theban plays: Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone (呂健忠)
Dec: Sophocles's Trachiniae, Ajax, Philoctetes, Electra (呂健忠)
Dec: John Milton's Paradise Regained
Dec: 源氏物語, 紫上系及第二部至雲隱 (林文月)


2021
Jan: Tales from Ovid (Ted Hugh)
Jan: Virgil's Eclogues (David Ferry)
May: Hesiod's Work and Days (ML West)
Jun: Alcestis, Phedre, Oresteia (Ted Hugh)
[Jul: Enola Holmes Mysteries 1,3,5,6]
Aug: Ovid's Heroides (Murgatroyd et al.)
Aug: Euripides's Electra (Emily Wilson)
Sept: Ovid's Metamorphoses 1--7 (Charles Martin)
[Oct: Henrietta Harrison's The Missionary's Curse 中譯]
Oct: 近松門左衛門::平家女護島 (錢稻孫)
Oct: 貝奧武甫 (馮象)
Oct: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
Oct: Beowulf (Maria Davana Headley)
Nov: Petrarch's Canzoniere, oup selections (Mark Musa)
Nov: Euripides's Helen (Emily Wilson)
Nov: Aristophanes's 利西翠坦 (呂健忠)
[Dec: 知堂回想錄]
Dec: Seneca's six tragedies (Emily Wilson)
Dec: 太安萬侶::古事記 (周作人)
Dec: 式亭三馬::浮世澡堂 (周作人)


2020
Jan: Ovid's 變形錄 (呂健忠)
Jan: Virgil's Aeneid (Sarah Ruden)
Mar: Virgil's Georgics (David Ferry)
May: Gilgamesh (David Ferry)
May: Horace's Epistles (David Ferry)
May: Horace's Odes (David Ferry)
Jun: Apuleius's Golden Ass: Cupid and Psyche (Sarah Ruden)
Jun: Apuleius's Golden Ass: Cupid and Psyche (Robert Graves)
Aug: 先知書 (後先知書) (馮象)
Nov: Odyssey (Emily Wilson)
Dec: Confessions of St. Augustine (Sarah Ruden)


2019
Mar: Decameron (Mark Musa)
Jul: Dante's Divine Comedy (Mark Musa)
Sept: Ovid's Heroides (Harold Isbell)
Sept: Song of Roland (Robert Harrison)
Sept: Ovid's Metamorphoses 1--3 (Horace Gregory)