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作家笔记 [Book] Douban
A Writer’s Notebook
7.5 (8 ratings) author: [英] 毛姆 translator: 陈德志 / 陈星 publishing house: 上海译文出版社 2015 - 8
“我从没说过自己有凭空编故事的本领;我往往需要一个事件或是一个人物才好动笔,不过我总是运用想象力、创作力以及戏剧感,把素材变成我自己的东西。”毛姆如是说。
从一八九二年他十八岁开始,毛姆就养成随时记录各种创作素材的习惯,这一习惯他一直坚持了五十多年。一九四九年,已经七十五岁高龄的毛姆从他保存的十五册笔记、备忘录和旅游札记中精挑细选并加以简明的按语,出版了这本《作家笔记》。这无疑是毛姆最为重要也最为真实的作品之一,等于是在正式放弃虚构文学创作后将他“写作素材的仓库”亦即他创作的终极秘密公之于众了。虽然之后还出版了《随性而至》和《观点》这两本随笔和评论集,《作家笔记》可以看作毛姆一生文学创作的起点和终点,是他对自己一生漫长的文学生涯的告别。

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"It's just a matter of trial and error. You try something, it doesn't work. You try it another way, maybe it works even less well, or maybe it works a little bit better. It really is the dark room that Henry James describes. It's a sort of groping, and continuously trying things out, and understanding why something fails. The key is to try to understand what are the elements that are failing, and why, and then you move on to the next draft with a little bit more of clarity."



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