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Borges: A Great Reader
In the preface to the English version of Selected Poems of Borges published in 197 1, Borges claimed:
First of all, I regard myself as a reader. Secondly, I briefly introduce george seferis, a poet and essayist.
Is a reading Borges more important than a literary Borges? To some extent, it is true. When young Borges accepted his father's family library with thousands of books, he also accepted the personality characteristics endowed by his parents: introversion, shyness, timidity and sensitivity.
Selected poems of Borges in Chinese and English.
Allen Ryan Penguin Book, 1st Edition 1972.
Until he became an adult, he had no contact with girls. His father accused him of being a virgin for too long. One day, he took him to and ordered him to sleep with a woman who had slept with his father countless times. This memory made Borges very painful and unhappy, and it was difficult to get rid of his fear of sex all his life. In The Poet, he implicitly described this forced enlightenment:
A woman, the first woman God gave him, was waiting for him in the dark basement. He went to find her, through the stone spider web-like roadway and the slope leading to the abyss. ... in the darkness visible to the naked eye, love and danger are waiting for him.
The world issued rude orders through his father's mouth, which was simply Kafka's fate. The difference is that Kafka described it as a nightmare and transformation, while Borges turned it into a maze-a magical space full of tigers, mirrors, daggers, masks, libraries and books.
He was troubled by a slip of the tongue, and once went to the radio to give a radio speech, but he couldn't say a word. With the help of his mother and psychologist, he got rid of the fear of facing the audience and later became a successful speaker.
After he lost his sight at the age of 56, he couldn't live without the help of others. His relatives in their eighties became his secretary and nurse, his eyes and hands.
Emilio Rodriguez Monegal wrote in "Living in a Labyrinth-Biography of Borges":
It seems that he hasn't left his mother's womb yet. Or, more accurately, blindness sent him back to his mother's womb forever.
Borges kept silent about his private life during his lifetime.
Borges is indirect, because real life never seems to enter his field of vision, and he never looks for creative themes in his own life. He is a man who explores metaphysics and literature, a wizard who summons imagination, and a fresh poet who is bookish but not pedantic.
The uniqueness of Borges world lies in its existence, history, sex, psychology, emotion, instinct and so on. Are dissolved and compressed in a world that belongs only to the spirit. Life, this boiling and chaotic commotion, came to the readers after being filtered into myth and sublimated into concept by Borges.
Lusa
After his thinking and creation, dreams, eternity and memories of an endless poem keep coming back ... Writing, for him, is to capture the "third tiger" with the magic of language-
We are looking for the third tiger. This one
Like everything else, this will be my dream.
A form, a combination of human words.
It won't be a tiger with flesh and blood.
Travel all over the world beyond myth.
Another tiger
Everything is the vocabulary of a language.
Someone or something works day and night.
Write down endless nonsense.
This is the history of the world.
compass
His worship, fascination and even fear of books can also be found in his novels. Many of Borges' novels are based on books, and books are the protagonists of the story.
Sand wrote a book as endless as sand. "I" became a prisoner of this book, suffering from insomnia for a long time, and occasionally dreaming about it when I fell asleep. This book is like a monster, turning the person who owns it into a monster. "I" want to burn it, but I'm worried that the infinite books will burn endlessly, burning the whole earth in smoke. Finally, I had to hide it in the basement of a huge library, like a leaf returning to the forest, to make it disappear and forget it.
The Secret Miracle wrote a dream: a librarian was looking for God in clementi Agricultural Library. It is said that God is on a page of 400,000 books, so his parents, his parents and himself are blind.
In another article, The Library of Babel, Borges compared the universe to a library, consisting of numerous hexagonal showrooms. Five bookshelves are arranged on each wall of each hexahedron. There are 32 books on each shelf, each book has 400 pages and each page has 40 lines. There are about 80 black letters in the first line. These letters are confusing. After writing these books, people cancel themselves and become ghosts. Borges wrote:
Humans-the only race-are dying out on their own, and this library will continue to exist-bright, lonely, infinite and motionless. Full of precious books, useless and immortal, keep a secret.
Books constitute a library, which is a breathing and sleeping body, waiting to be touched and opened.
Leaving the noise of the square, I walked into the library. Immediately, in an almost physical way, I felt the gravity of books, the quiet atmosphere of orderly things, and the saved and magically preserved past.
To Leopold Lugones.
Borges entered the Buenos Aires Municipal Library on 1937 and has never left the library since. 1955, when he was appointed as the director of the National Library of Argentina, he was blind. He wrote:
God gave me 800 thousand books and deprived me of my light at the same time. It's a wonderful irony.
Chichen itza, the ruins of the ancient Mayan city.
He thought of Homer and Milton. He said:
Homer seems to respect myself very much. His blindness is like mine, and his acceptance of darkness is like mine. Blindness befalls me, just like the slowly coming dusk …
Perhaps, those encyclopedias, atlases, East and West, centuries, dynasties, symbols, the universe and the theory of the origin of the universe in the library have nothing to do with him, but he calmly accepted the slowly coming dusk and the long night behind it. Facing the night, he looked for "the language of dawn"
Turn the insults of the years into
A piece of music, a whisper, a symbol.
Poetry art
In a quiet, dusty and boundless library, I always feel that Borges is a gluttonous reader, but he is an elegant glutton with a good appetite and invincible digestive function-eating books and digesting the world.
Sometimes, he will feel distressed and sigh that he can't read the whole library. He meditated and wandered in the library until he became a ghost, a "nobody" as he himself said.
Whitman once said that "only great readers can produce great works", which was broken by Borges, and the two "greats" became one in him. If the world loses all its readers, you can't say that there are no readers, and there is this-Borges, a great reader and an infinite individual.
Poet Shen Wei's Prose Collection
Poet | Guangxi Normal University Press
This book is one of the first three excellent essays published in the series "Poets Read Classics".
Forty important foreign poets are selected, with the aim of "sketching the spiritual portrait of genius and transmitting the voice of the world", and the western poetry tradition from Homer in ancient Greece to Heini in modern times is combed. As a famous poet and economist with national influence, he will become the popularization and disseminator of poetry in this book-passing the torch of poetry to possible readers.
The most prominent feature of this book is the precise combination of poetry, people and background, the overall investigation of George Severus' profile, and the infinite understanding of brush strokes in-depth works and souls.
Introduction:
Shen Wei, 1965, from Huzhou, Zhejiang. He has written nearly 20 poems, including Selected Poems of Shen Wei, My Dust, My Smooth Road, Stay in an Instant, Essays, Xinjiang Dictionary, Legend of Plants, Comments on Kashgar, and Roubayi-Morning Light on the Tower. , and many other editing and stage works. Poetry and prose have been translated into more than ten languages such as English, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. He has successively won the Lu Xun Literature Award, the Six-Year Poetry Award, the Rougang Poetry Award, the October Literature Award, the annual poetry gold medal in Huaxiang Literature List, and the China Literature Media Award.
Directory:
Homer: The Works of the Gods
Sappho: The Tenth Muse
0 17 khayyam: Happy and Sad Persian Gulf Ancient Songs
024 allegri Dante: Whose hell?
03 1 Dunn: Half lover, half god.
039 Johann Wolfgang Goethe: The King of Writing
046 Friedrich Schiller: Arrogant Warrior.
052 william blake: Innocence and Experience
059 Holderlin: Living Poetically
Byron: Don Juan's love affair and
John keats: The nightingale is still singing.
080 Pushkin: Autumn in Polkino
Charles Baudelaire: Stars without atmosphere.
095 Stefan Malarme: Thoughts of Silence and Violence
102 Arthur Rambo: a psychic prodigal son
Walt whitman: The Singing of Humans
Emily Dickinson: Crossing Lightning
124 William Butler Yeats: rejected love
13 1 paul valery: an intellectual festival.
138 rené Maria Rilke: where is your residence?
Ezra pound: The Pyramid of Poetry
152 T.S. Eliot: the pioneer of the wilderness
Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Poet
Pasternak: a smoking and burning conscience
174 Mandelshtam: Gold dances in the sky.
18 1 Zvetayeva: Chew absinthe.
188 wystan hugh auden: It must be on fire.
Borges: A Great Reader
Juan Ramon Jimenez: Silver and him.
Joan Pace: An Epic of Thought
George Severus: The patience of stone.
Pablo neruda: God's Baker
230 Montal Eugenio: The Guidance of Thorns
Eglitis: Speak for light and clarity.
Milosz: Gazing at the Flower of Hell.
252 seifert: The trembling of the tip of the tongue.
259 Joseph broschi: New Dante
Go to the beginning and start forever.
276 Walcott: A Divided Child
284 seamus heaney: Dig in time.
Postscript of 290
Conceptual analysis of related terms in this paper;
library
Library is a scientific, cultural and educational institution that collects, sorts out and preserves documents and materials and provides them for readers to use. The word English library comes from Latin librarium, which means a place to collect books. All kinds of libraries in ancient China were called library buildings by later generations, and the word library appeared at the end of 19. Library is a civilized product of the development of human society to a certain stage, which serves and is restricted by the politics, economy and culture of a certain society. The word "library" first appeared in the Japanese literature of 1877; However, it first appeared in China literature. When an article about building a simple library in the 62nd issue of Education World was pushed, it was 1894. The earliest provincial library in China is Hubei Library, which was founded in 1904.