2026年8月18日 星期二

傳記文學： 兩本華盛頓·歐文Washington Irving ( 1783 – 1859 美國短篇小說家、散文家、傳記作家、歷史學家和外交官。) 的文學生涯評傳：Van Wyck Brooks《華盛頓歐文的世界》1993/《華盛頓·歐文素描集》Phillip Lopate's A Washington Irving Sketch Book (2026) 歐文如何不斷地重塑自我，從諷刺作家，到文學家，有時甚至淪為平庸之輩，最終成為喬治·華盛頓和先知穆罕默德等人物的嚴肅傳記作家。在這個過程中，洛佩特也解釋了為何像歐文這樣的小作家會擁有歷久不衰的魅力。

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Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.

Irving was born and raised in Manhattan to a merchant family. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. He temporarily moved to England for the family business in 1815, where he achieved fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. which was serialized from 1819 to 1820. He continued to publish regularly throughout his life, and he completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death at age 76 in Tarrytown, New York.

Irving was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and he encouraged other American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. He was also admired by some British writers, including Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Francis Jeffrey, and Walter Scott. He advocated for writing as a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.



華盛頓·歐文（1783年4月3日－1859年11月28日）是19世紀早期美國短篇小說家、散文家、傳記作家、歷史學家和外交官。他創作了短篇小說《瑞普·凡·溫克爾》（1819年）和《睡谷的傳說》（1820年），這兩篇小說均收錄於他的短篇小說集《杰弗裡·克雷恩紳士的素描簿》中。他的歷史著作包括奧利佛·戈德史密斯、穆罕默德和喬治·華盛頓的傳記，以及多部關於15世紀西班牙歷史的著作，內容涉及阿爾罕布拉宮、克里斯多福·哥倫布和摩爾人等主題。歐文於19世紀40年代擔任美國駐西班牙大使。


歐文出生於曼哈頓的一個商人家庭，並在那裡長大。 1802年，他以筆名喬納森·奧爾德斯泰爾向《晨報》發表了一系列觀察性信件，也開啟了他的文學創作生涯。 1815年，他因家族生意暫時移居英國，並在那裡憑藉連載於1819年至1820年的《杰弗裡·克雷恩紳士素描簿》一舉成名。他一生筆耕不輟學，在去世前八個月，完成了五卷本的喬治華盛頓傳記。去世時，他享年76歲，住在紐約州塔里敦。


歐文是最早獲得歐洲讚譽的美國作家之一，他鼓勵了其他美國作家，如納撒尼爾·霍桑、亨利·沃茲沃思·朗費羅、赫爾曼·梅爾維爾和愛倫·坡。他也受到一些英國作家的推崇，包括拜倫勳爵、托馬斯·坎貝爾、查爾斯·狄更斯、瑪麗·雪萊、弗朗西斯·傑弗裡和沃爾特·斯科特。他倡導寫作是一種合法的職業，並呼籲制定更強有力的法律來保護美國作家免受版權侵權。

Biography


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《歐文小說選》"Sleepy Hollow" ；Van Wyck Brooks《華盛頓歐文的世界》1993/Phillip Lopate's A Washington Irving Sketch Book (2026)


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本書以豐富細膩的筆觸，描繪了一位美國文壇巨匠的生平，他堪稱作家生涯的典範，展現了其人生中的種種挫折與輝煌。


菲利普·洛佩特的《華盛頓·歐文素描集》現已出版（英國10月13日發行）。


點此購買：https://hubs.ly/Q04tgqdX0


華盛頓·歐文（1783-1859）常被認為是美國第一位職業作家，他憑藉寫作養家糊口，在文壇的起伏跌宕中摸爬滾打。他以妙趣橫生的《紐約史》一舉成名，隨後出版了《素描集》，這是一部收錄了《瑞普·凡·溫克爾》和《睡谷的傳說》等個人散文和短篇小說的合集。作為一名散文家和教師，菲利普·洛佩特與歐文產生了共鳴，他深受歐文充滿人文關懷且文筆優雅的散文風格以及面對挫折和自身寫作局限時所展現出的勇氣和毅力的啟發。


在這本引人入勝的書中，洛佩特透過一系列充滿溫情和同情的素描，回顧了歐文及其浩瀚的作品。歐文是第一位享譽國際的美國作家，吸引了查爾斯狄更斯和拜倫勳爵等忠實擁躉。儘管他生前或許被過譽，但如今卻被不公平地忽視了。終身未婚的他舉止文雅、廣受歡迎、善於交際，既與皇室成員交往，也與平民百姓交往，然而，在這一切光鮮亮麗的外表下，他卻是一個孤獨而憂鬱的人。洛佩特描述了歐文如何不斷地重塑自我，從諷刺作家，到文學家，有時甚至淪為平庸之輩，最終成為喬治·華盛頓和先知穆罕默德等人物的嚴肅傳記作家。在這個過程中，洛佩特也解釋了為何像歐文這樣的小作家會擁有歷久不衰的魅力。


《華盛頓·歐文素描簿》深入剖析了這位曾被譽為美國最著名作家的魅力與謎團，拉近了歐文與當代讀者的距離，捕捉了他作品的精髓以及文學潮流的變遷。


#華盛頓歐文 #文學



A richly textured portrait of an American man of letters who came to exemplify the writer’s life with all its setbacks and triumphs.

Phillip Lopate's A Washington Irving Sketch Book is now available (13 October UK pub).

Find it here: https://hubs.ly/Q04tgqdX0

Washington Irving (1783–1859) is often considered America’s first professional writer, supporting himself and his family amid the ups and downs of literary fortune. He burst on the scene with his uproarious History of New York, followed by his Sketch Book, a collection of personal essays and short stories that includes “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” As an essayist and teacher, Phillip Lopate identifies with Irving, inspired by his humane and elegant prose style, and by Irving’s courage and persistence in the face of setbacks and his own limitations as a writer.

In this illuminating book, Lopate reflects on Irving and his extensive body of work through a series of warmly sympathetic sketches of his own. Irving was the first American writer to attain international renown, attracting such devoted fans as Charles Dickens and Lord Byron, and while he may have been overrated in his day, he has since become undeservedly neglected. A lifelong bachelor, he was urbane, popular, and socially adept, mixing with royals as well as paupers, yet underneath it all he was a loner and a melancholic. Lopate describes how Irving constantly reinvented himself, first as a satirist, then a belletrist, at times a hack writer, and finally as a serious biographer of figures like George Washington and the Prophet Muhammad. Along the way, he explains why minor writers like Irving have their enduring fascinations.

Delving into all that is likable and perplexing about the man once considered America’s most famous writer, A Washington Irving Sketch Book brings Irving closer to today’s readers, capturing the charm of his work and the vicissitudes of literary fashion.

#WashingtonIrving #Literature




Pam Sims Williams
The Golden Age Of Illustration·

Pam Sims Williams
2017年10月16日 ·  ·

Arthur Rackham illustration from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.


#Halloween is close upon us and no other story fits the season like 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘺 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 by Washington Irving. It seems Ichabod Crane was quite the ladies man. Illustration by Arthur Rackham 1928. 🎃





 Van Wyck Brooks (b. Plainfield, New Jersey, February 16, 1886; d. Bridgewater, Connecticut, May 2, 1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.

Brooks was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1908. The masterpiece of his literary career was a series of studies entitled Makers and Finders, which chronicled the development of American literature during the long 19th century. Brooks' reputation rested on the dexterity with which he embroidered elaborate biographical detail into brilliant anecdotal prose. For The Flowering of New England (1936), he won the second National Book Award for Non-Fiction from the American Book Sellers Association[1][2] and the 1937 Pulitzer Prize in history.
He was a long-time resident of Bridgewater, Connecticut, which built a town library wing in his name. Although a decade-long fund-raising effort seemed to fail and was abandoned in 1972, a miserly hermit in Los Angeles with no connection to Bridgewater surprised the town by leaving money for the library in his will. With $210,000 raised, the library addition went up in 1980.[3]
Among his works, the book The Ordeal of Mark Twain, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel L. Clemens and attributes shortcomings, which are debatable, to Clemens' mother and wife. In 1953 he published his excellent translation from French of the 1920 biography of Henry Thoreau by Leon Bazalgette titled "Henry Thoreau Bachelor of Nature".
In 1944, Brooks was on the cover of Time Magazine.[4]

Bibliography

  • 1908: The Wine of the Puritans: A Study of Present-Day America
  • 1913: The Malady of the Ideal: Senancour, Maurice de Guérin, and Amiel
  • 1914: John Addington Symonds: A Biographical Study
  • 1915: The World of H.G. Wells
  • 1915: America's Coming of Age
  • 1920: The Ordeal of Mark Twain
  • 1925: The Pilgrimage of Henry James
  • 1932: The Life of Emerson
  • 1934: Three Essays on America
  • 1936: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 (Makers and Finders)
  • 1940: New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1914 (Makers and Finders)
  • 1941: Opinions of Oliver Allston
  • 1941: On Literature Today
  • 1944: The World of Washington Irving (Makers and Finders)
  • 1947: The Times of Melville and Whitman (Makers and Finders)
  • 1948: A Chilmark Miscellany
  • 1952: The Confident Years: 1885-1915 (Makers and Finders)
  • 1952: Makers and Finders: A History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915
  • 1953: The Writer in America
  • 1953: Henry Thoreau Bachelor of Nature by Leon Bazalgette-translated by Van Wyck Brooks
  • 1954: Scenes and Portraits: Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (An Autobiography)
  • 1955: John Sloan: A Painter's Life
  • 1956: Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait
  • 1957: Days of the Phoenix: The Nineteen-Twenties I Remember (An Autobiography)
  • 1958: The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy, 1760-1915
  • 1958: From a Writer's Notebook
  • 1959: Howells: His Life and World
  • 1961: From the Shadow of the Mountain: My Post-Meridian Years (An Autobiography)
  • 1962: Fenollosa and His Circle: With Other Essays in Biography
  • 1965: An Autobiography



The World of Washington Irving.(1944)

 華盛頓.歐文的世界(精)作者:（美）範懷克·布魯克斯（Van Wyck Brooks）著；譯者: 林曉帆出版社: 上海外語教育出版社出版年: 1993頁數: 451《華盛頓歐文的世界》（1944）是一部五卷本的美國文學史《創造者和發現者》中的一冊，作者範懷克布魯克斯是最有影響也最有爭論的美國批評家之一。此書出版時，布魯克斯的漫長的寫作生涯（1908-1963）的​​第二階段已經開始了好久，他一生寫作都是為了美國的進步事業而把文學批評和文學跟政治的積極精神結合起來。確實，布魯克斯始終認為作為批評家他的奮鬥目標就是要成為一場更大的事業的一部分，把美國社會從一種商業利益居於主導地位的文明轉變為實現共和國創建時期所揭示的民主和平等的理想的文明。第一章 1800年的費城第二章 紐約第三章 新英格蘭第四章 南方第五章 西部第六章 托馬斯 杰斐遜第七章 威廉 鄧拉普和他的圈子第八章 奧得本第九章 華盛頓 歐文在英國第十章 庫珀：早期第十一章 紐約：布賴恩特第十二章 波托馬克河以南第十三章 查爾斯頓和西南部：西姆斯第十四章 歐文和庫珀在國外第十五章 埃德加 愛倫 坡在南方第十六章 西部：1830-1840第十七章 紐約：庫珀第十八章 N P威利斯第十九章 埃德加 愛倫 坡在北方第二十章 進入40年代索引商品圖片歐文˙華盛頓著/ 張愛玲等譯《歐文小說選》台北:大新 1965 10元台北:萬象/久大 1994 85元"由今日世界社出版的《歐文小說選》，作者是美籍的華盛頓．歐文（Washington Irving），十篇作品譯者包括了張愛玲、方馨、湯新楣等三人。但實際上張愛玲只譯了第一篇「無頭騎士」，方馨譯了「李伯大夢」、「鬼新郎」、「胖先生」、「鬼屋奇緣」等四篇，而剩下的五篇「驍勇的龍騎兵」、「文人雅宴」、「可憐的作家」、「故宮遊」、「得寶記」都是由湯新楣所譯。前言及附錄「關於李伯大夢」兩篇則由林以亮執筆。 "--->歐文小說選- 咖啡書蟲的小劇場- Yahoo!奇摩部落格歐文短篇小說選 　歐文短篇小說選作者: （美）華盛頓・歐文譯者: 萬紫出版社: 人民文學出版社出版年: 2004-012003年初，本著“優中選精”的原則，我們從上世紀九十年代出版的“世界文學名著文庫”中精選出60種深受讀者喜愛的外國文學名著新組成了“名著名譯插圖本”叢書。該叢書一經推出，就以其深厚雋永的內涵、優美流暢的譯文和典雅精緻的插圖博得廣大讀者的厚愛，他們紛紛來信來電，對叢書的出版給予了充分的肯定並希望增補一些新的品種。為此，我們延續“名著名譯插圖本”前60種的基本風格，繼續推出這套叢書的後40種，以饗讀者。 【內容提要】 　　本書所選的歐文篇小說，都是歐文最優秀的作品，有的一向膾炙人口。除了廣為人知的經典名篇《瑞典·凡·溫克爾》、《睡谷的傳說》、《鬼新郎》以及《魔鬼和湯姆·華克爾》之外，本書還收入了《大塊頭先生》、 《鬧鬼的屋子》、《掘金者》、《阿拉伯占星家的傳說》、《摩爾人遺產的傳說》和《王子阿罕默德·阿爾·卡默爾的傳說或愛情的巡禮者》等短篇，包含了現實主義的小說、鬼故事、詼諧模仿作品、民間傳說、傳奇故事、虛構故事和諷刺文字。　　歐文短篇小說選(名著名譯插圖本) 本書目錄瑞普·凡·溫克爾鬼新郎睡谷的傳說大塊頭先生鬧鬼的屋子掘金者鬼門關海盜基德魔鬼和湯姆·華克爾渥爾弗爾特·魏伯爾或黃金夢阿拉伯占星家的傳說摩爾人遺產的傳說王子阿罕默德·阿爾·卡默爾的傳說或愛情的巡禮者



华盛顿.欧文的世界(精)


歐文˙華盛頓著/ 張愛玲等譯《歐文小說選》


台北:大新 1965 10元
台北:萬象/久大 1994 85元



"由今日世界社出版的《歐文小說選》，作者是美籍的華盛頓．歐文（Washington Irving），十篇作品譯者包括了張愛玲、方馨、湯新楣等三人。但實際上張愛玲只譯了第一篇「無頭騎士」，方馨譯了「李伯大夢」、「鬼新郎」、「胖先生」、「鬼屋奇緣」等四篇，而剩下的五篇「驍勇的龍騎兵」、「文人雅宴」、「可憐的作家」、「故宮遊」、「得寶記」都是由湯新楣所譯。前言及附錄「關於李伯大夢」兩篇則由林以亮執筆。"--->歐文小說選- 咖啡書蟲的小劇場- Yahoo!奇摩部落格



“The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow”, Washington Irving’s 19th-century gothic classic, centres on a peculiar little American town on the banks of the Hudson river. The Washington Ballet invited viewers to enter just such a reverie during a production of “Sleepy Hollow” that had its world premiere—and a run of only seven performances—at the Kennedy Centre last week http://econ.st/1EM5BNf

Dancing with the headless horseman

"Sleepy Hollow" ballet

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欧文短篇小说选 　

欧文短篇小说选

作者: （美）华盛顿・欧文
译者: 万紫
出版社: 人民文学出版社
出版年: 2004-01
　　


欧文短篇小说选(名著名译插图本) 本书目录

瑞普·凡·温克尔
鬼新郎
睡谷的传说
大块头先生
闹鬼的屋子
掘金者
鬼门关
海盗基德
魔鬼和汤姆·华克尔
渥尔弗尔特·魏伯尔或黄金梦
阿拉伯占星家的传说
摩尔人遗产的传说
王子阿罕默德·阿尔·卡默尔的传说或爱情的巡礼者


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