After the ‘Great War’ ended, there were many competing ideas for a permanent war memorial in Christchurch. Options discussed were varied and included a museum, a monument, a new tram shelter in Cathedral Square or a hospital ward. Vigorous debate around the suitability of the options often played out in The Press in letters to…
Have you found yourself yet?
Have you found yourself yet? And if so, how? Maggie O'Farrell, author of seven very successful novels, has worked out who she is using her seventeen (that is correct) brushes with death, and has put it all together for us in her memoir: I Am, I Am, I Am. And it is very good. I Am, I Am…
读《茱萸的孩子:余光中传》,忆乡愁诗人余光中 “Nostalgia poet” Yu Guangzhong
By hongwangccl
每逢佳节倍思亲。在春节探亲访友之际,海外的华人都以各种方式表达对故土和亲人的思恋。朗诵余光中的《乡愁》往往成为人们表达这一情感的一种方式。台湾著名诗人、文学评论家、教育家、翻译家余光中先生以脍炙人口的《乡愁》赢得了“乡愁诗人”的称号。 然而,他对华人社会的贡献远远超出了这一称号冠以他的殊荣。在他的一生中, 余光中先生发表了多部诗集、散文和翻译作品。每首诗文都得益于他在一定时代背景下真实的情感和体悟。所以,他的作品能牵动亿万华人的心。傅孟丽的《茱萸的孩子:余光中传》是走进这位大师的世界,理解他的诗文的最好导读。 《茱萸的孩子:余光中传》的中文简写本完成于2007年。余光中先生于2017年病逝。因此,这本书记录了余光中先生一生的重大事件,算得上是一本较完整的传记。在书中,作者将余光中先生的一生分成五个阶段,包括大陆时期、台北时期、赴美时期、香港时期和高雄时期。以此为主线,作者也侧写了余光中先生的家庭、亲情、爱情、友情、师生情和个人性格,以达到“横看成岭侧成峰”的效果。 尽管该书各章节之间的连贯性似乎不太明显,作者严谨的写作态度值得称颂。每一事件的资料都来源于详细访谈,经过多方核实。作者很巧妙地避免了写传记时易走的两个误区。既没有将该传记写成“供词”以暴露不必要暴露的隐私;也没有将其写成“颂词”而一味歌功颂德。书中呈现的是一位有七情六欲、经历丰富的文化人—有过儿时对战争的恐惧、青壮年时的壮志凌云、客居他乡时被排挤和最终的功成名就。 这本书的另一个读点就是它将余光中先生的一生不同时期的作品和他的生活境遇有机地结合起来以解读这些作品。读过该书,您会对下面一系列问题有更清晰的答案:为什么余光中先生在散文《从母亲到外遇》中说:“大陆是母亲,台湾是妻子,香港是情人,欧洲是外遇。”?《沙浮投海》和《舟子的悲歌》表达了大师怎样的心境?为什么诗集《莲的联想》在台湾诗史的演进中很珍贵?《白玉苦瓜》的音乐性从何而来?余光中先生什么时候写了《三生石》? 如果您喜欢读余光中先生的作品,《茱萸的孩子:余光中传》是一本必读的书。建议您首先读这本书,然后通过以上链接欣赏他的作品。这样,您可能对大师的作品会有更深的领悟。同时,也欢迎您加入我们的读书会微信群(微信号:hongwangccl),参加我们的余光中作品在线讨论。 Zhu yu de hai zi Kōrerorero mai - Join the conversation…
What were we listening to in 1988? – A musical nostalgia trip!
Nothing is as quite as good as music for transporting you back to past times of love, loss, and the gaining of life's experiences. I know that most of my childhood can be most effectively measured musically! I was suitably shocked to learn that 'Simply Irresistible' by Robert Palmer featured prominently in the New Zealand…
Canterbury Japan Day 2018
By kiwilouise
Canterbury Japan Day is an annual event organised by The Japanese Society of Canterbury with the aim of sharing authentic Japanese culture with Cantabrians. In 2018 it will take place from 9.30am to 4.30pm on Sunday 4 March at Riccarton Park, 165 Racecourse Road. The theme this year is the Japanese Summer. The venue will be filled…
Podcast – Euthanasia
By cclstaff
Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton. Euthanasia: It’s one of those topics that people seem to have an opinion on, whether they support it, don’t support it, or remain resolutely undecided. As New Zealand debates…
Charles Nicholas Oates and his motor-car: Picturing Canterbury
By simonccl
Charles Nicholas Oates (1853?-1938) and his motor-car [1901]. "The passengers are Mr P Denton, Mr N. Oates and two of his children". Mr Oates owned Zealandia Cycle Works, which later became Oates & Lowry & Co. He imported this car into New Zealand. It was a "small-type, fitted with solid tyres, and driven by the…
22 February 2011 / 22 February 2018 – Remembering
By Donna R
Seven years ago Christchurch was hit by an earthquake that killed 185 people. It's a sad anniversary, and sometimes it is hard to know how - or where - to commemorate it. For the last seven years, my way has been to walk and think and take some photos. This morning I visited the former…
Unruly enclaves and Ruly dogs: Cool stuff from the selectors
By contentjane
Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias Places that maps can't confine or identify, Utopias, pieces of land in the middle of a highway, political places and cyberplaces. Written by the author of Off the Map, this book is hard to define but easy to read. Each…
Strange weather: Four great reads in one
By angelabccl
Previously, short stories have always been studiously avoided by me and I admit now, I might be guilty of misjudging them. Given that I always feel quite time poor you would think that short stories would rate quite highly with me, but this has never been the case. Until now. Joe Hill's Strange Weather is an excellent collection of four…
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