双语:7位文学泰斗的儿童绘本故事一

2014年07月31日18:05  新浪教育     收藏本文     

  1.詹姆斯·乔伊斯

  JAMES JOYCE

  詹姆斯·乔伊斯是著名的诗人、剧作家、长短篇小说作家。1936年8月10日,他给外孙史蒂芬寄的一封信为《猫和魔鬼》的创作埋下伏笔。这是一本非常可爱的儿童图画书,最先由法国卡通画家罗杰·布拉尚绘制插图。故事围绕一只博让西的猫以及道德矛盾展开。这个经典寓言故事融入了爱尔兰式的风趣和法国民间传说的元素,乔伊斯非凡的叙事手法更是锦上添花。

  James Joyce may be best known as a poet, playwright, short story writer and novelist. But in an August 10, 1936 letter his grandson, Stephen, Joyce planted the story seeds of what became The Cat and the Devil — a charming children’s picture-book, originally illustrated by French cartoonist Roger Blachon, about the cat of Beaugency and a moral dilemma, a classic fable narrative mixing Irish wit with French folklore, shaken and stirred with Joyce’s extraordinary storytelling。

《猫和魔鬼》《猫和魔鬼》
《猫和魔鬼》插图《猫和魔鬼》插图
《猫和魔鬼》插图《猫和魔鬼》插图
《猫和魔鬼》插图《猫和魔鬼》插图

  乔伊斯寄给“史蒂芬小鬼”的原信可以在斯图亚特·吉尔伯特1964年出版的《詹姆斯·乔伊斯的书信》中找到。《我们曾经是小孩》含有更多的图片,并汇总了不同版本的概要和时间线。

  Joyce’s original letter to “Stevie” can be found in Stuart Gilbert’s 1964 volume, Letters of James Joyce. We Too Were Children has more images, a synopsis and a timeline of different editions。

  2.马克·吐温

  MARK TWAIN

  1865年,传奇讽刺作家马克·吐温做了件令人预料不到的事情——他写了一个题为《给小女孩的建议》的儿童故事。这个故事体现的马克吐温的聪明、幽默和学识,对小读者,甚至今天的大读者来说都有点挑战性。这个故事最终收录于《3万美元遗产及其他故事》中。

  In 1865, legendary satirist Mark Twain did something unexpected — he penned a children’s story, titled Advice to Little Girls, in which he challenged children to digest the kind of intelligent humor and knowledge he was, and still is, known for among his adult audiences. The story was eventually published in The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories。

  今年,意大利出版局 Donzelli Editore 出版了这套插图优美的意大利语翻译版本,装帧采用了马克·吐温时代常见的用来涂鸦和收集奇思妙想的剪贴簿形式。

  This year, Italian publishing house Donzelli Editore released a beautifully illustrated Italian translation of the story, envisioned in the style of the scrapbooks and small albums the children of Twain’s era used for doodling and collecting various curious ephemera。

《给小女孩的建议》《给小女孩的建议》
《给小女孩的建议》插图《给小女孩的建议》插图
《给小女孩的建议》插图《给小女孩的建议》插图
《给小女孩的建议》插图《给小女孩的建议》插图
《给小女孩的建议》插图《给小女孩的建议》插图
《给小女孩的建议》插图《给小女孩的建议》插图

  3.弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫

  VIRGINIA WOOLF

  弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫成名作问世前的1923年,她的两个侄子创办的报纸《查尔斯顿公报》向她约稿,《寡妇和鹦鹉》的故事就这样诞生了。这个故事是个关于善待动物的道德故事,带有半开玩笑的性质,沃尔夫的大侄子昆汀表示对这个故事很失望,说它“戏弄人.。。拿维多利亚时代最糟糕的故事垫底” ,没有他期望的沃尔夫典型的颠覆性幽默感。她从百忙的文学创作中抽出时间来为一本家庭项目做贡献,不由让人看到沃尔夫体贴的一面。

  In 1923, with her greatest works still ahead of her, Virginia Woolf responded to a submissions call from a family newspaper called The Charleston Bulletin, published by her teenage nephews. The Widow and the Parrot is, roughly, a tongue-in-cheek moral story about kindness to animals and though Quentin, Woolf’s older nephew, bemoaned it as a disappointment and “a tease…based on the worst Victorian examples,” devoid of Woolf’s typical subversive humor he had hoped for, it remains a sweet reflection of character, her taking the time to contribute to a small family pet project in the heat of her literary career。

《寡妇和鹦鹉》《寡妇和鹦鹉》
《寡妇和鹦鹉》插图《寡妇和鹦鹉》插图
《寡妇和鹦鹉》插图《寡妇和鹦鹉》插图

  《寡妇和鹦鹉》这篇故事自《查尔斯顿公报》刊出后便消失在读者的视野中,直到1982年《Redbook》为纪念沃尔夫诞辰100周年才特别将它再次公之于众。

  The Widow and the Parrot stayed dormant in the archives of The Charleston Bulletin for over half a century, until it finally saw light of day in the 1982 issue of Redbook, celebrating 100 years since Woolf’s birth。

《寡妇和鹦鹉》《寡妇和鹦鹉》

  爱丽儿·赖特的《我们曾经是小孩》中有更多内容。 

  Ariel Wright has more on We Too Were Children。

  4.T.S。艾略特

  T.S. ELIOT

  T.S. 艾略特通常被认为是20世纪英语国家最重要的诗人。30年代的时候,艾略特以笔名“老负鼠”写了一系列给儿孙的书信,里面包含了很多关于猫咪心理学和社会学的诗歌,可谓天马行空之作。这些诗歌最终编集成册,以《擅长装扮的老猫经》一书出版。书中的原插画是作者自己绘制的。但是基于我们跟世纪中期的插画家爱德华·高威的老交情,我们向您隆重推荐由高威配图的1982年版本,他独特的黑白画绘风,让人毛骨悚然的同时也奇趣盎然。

  T.S. Eliot is often regarded as the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. In the 1930s, Eliot, under his assumed name “Old Possum,” wrote a series of letters to his godchildren, in which he included a handful of whimsical poems about feline psychology and sociology. They were eventually published in 1939 as Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, originally illustrated by the author himself. But, given our affinity for mid-century illustrator Edward Gorey, the even bigger treat is the 1982 edition illustrated by Gorey in his signature style of black-and-white drawings at the intersection of the macabre and the whimsical。

《擅长装扮的老猫经》《擅长装扮的老猫经》
《擅长装扮的老猫经》插图《擅长装扮的老猫经》插图
《擅长装扮的老猫经》插图《擅长装扮的老猫经》插图

  《擅长装扮的老猫经》据说是百老汇音乐剧《猫》的灵感来源。

  Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats inspired the iconic Broadway musical Cats。

  5.玛丽·雪莱

  MARY SHELLEY

  玛丽· 雪莱是划时代小说《佛朗克斯坦》的作者,她1818年在伦敦匿名出版这部小说之后和1823年法国署名再版之前的1820年,完成了《莫里斯,或者渔夫的小屋》—一个写给朋友女儿的儿童故事。雪莱试图说服她的父亲威廉·葛德文为她出版,但遭到拒绝,于是这部童书掩埋了近两个世纪。1997年,学者们在意大利发现一部手抄本,被认为是现代文学取证史上的壮举。

  Between the time Mary Shelley published anonymous edition of her iconic Frankenstein in London in 1818 and the publication of the second edition in France in 1823, where her name appears for the first time, she penned Maurice, or The Fisher’s Cot — a children’s story Shelley wrote in 1820 for a daughter of friends. Shelley tried to have the story published by her father, William Godwin, but he refused, burying the text for nearly two centuries. In 1997, scholars discovered a manuscript copy was in Italy, considered one of modernity’s great feats of literary forensics。

《莫里斯,或者渔夫的小屋》《莫里斯,或者渔夫的小屋》
《莫里斯,或者渔夫的小屋》手抄本《莫里斯,或者渔夫的小屋》手抄本

  这个故事是关于一个无家可归的男孩在流浪途中偶遇一个旅人,而那个旅人后来证实是男孩失踪已久的父亲。故事通篇以威廉·华兹华斯的浪漫主义笔调写成,因为玛丽雪莱在创作《莫里斯》的时候正在拜读他的作品。这部作品笔调多愁善感,字里行间流露出自传的意识,这些重见天日的文字揭示了雪莱的个性,并提供了研究其作品风格的关键部分。

  The story, written in the straightforward Romantic language of poet William Wordsworth, whose work Shelley was reading at the time she composed Maurice, is about a boy searching for a home and his encounters with a traveller who turns out to be his long-lost father. With its melancholy tone and autobiographical undercurrents, the rediscovered text revealed a new glimpse of Shelley’s character and offered a precious missing link in the evolution of her literary style。

  6.列夫·托尔斯泰

  LEO TOLSTOY

  俄国小说巨匠列夫·托尔斯泰最有名的作品是其史诗般的《安娜·卡列尼娜》和《战争与和平》,被认为是两部空前绝后的伟大著作。但他本人对儿童和儿童文学一直兴趣不减。他用自家的房产为农村儿童建了一所学校,后来又建了一所实验性质更强的学校,校训为“想来就来,想走就走”——这是早期开放式教育的楷模。托尔斯泰被孩子们简单而天真的故事所打动,也开始写有关自己童年的故事。《战争与和平》出版后,他发表了一系列题名为《ABC》和《新ABC》的字母书。这些简易读物在苏维埃时期被俄国的教育系统广泛采用。

  Iconic Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy may be best-known for his epics Anna Karenina and War and Peace, considered two of the greatest novels of all time, but he also had a keen and active interest in children and children’s literature. He founded a school for peasant children on his family’s estate, followed by a second, more experimental school with the motto, “Come when you like, leave when you like” — an early model for open education. Inspired by the simplicity and innocence with which the children of his schools told stories, he began writing about his own childhood, eventually publishing a series of alphabet books after War and Peace. Known as “The ABC Book” (Azbuka) and “The New ABC Book” (Novaia Azbuka), these easy readers were widely adopted in Russia’s education system and remained in use throughout the Soviet Era。

  《经典儿童故事和寓言》选取了托尔斯泰经典启蒙读物中的故事和寓言。这部选集的写作风格轻松愉快,偶尔来点幽默,但他从不傲为人师。这些奇妙的故事显示了托尔斯泰对儿童独特的创造力和道德识别力的充分尊重和欣赏,也体现出他在开拓教育事业上的尽心尽力。

  Classic Tales and Fables for Children features a selection of stories and fables from Tolstoy’s classic primers. Always delightful, frequently humorous and never patronizing, these wonderful tales bespeak Tolstoy’s profound respect and appreciation for children’s unique creative and moral sensibilities, as well as his dedication to the broader aspirations of education。

《经典儿童故事和寓言》《经典儿童故事和寓言》

  7.奥斯卡·王尔德

  OSCAR WILDE

  1888年,奥斯卡最具代表性的剧本和散文隆重问世之前,他写就了《快乐王子和其他故事》——一部诗意盎然的关于幸福、生命和死亡的选集,由五个儿童故事组成。劳拉·斯塔兹曼配图的英文版本在西方最受欢迎,但1992年出版的中文翻译版本更胜一筹(书的最后附英文),插画师为著名的华裔艺术家杨志成。

  In 1888, before his most iconic plays and essays made grand their debut, Oscar Wilde wrote The Happy Prince and other Tales — a poetic collection of five children’s stories about happiness, life and death. Though the most popular Western version, illustrated by Laura Stutzman, is certainly a treat, nothing compares to the astounding 1992 Chinese translation (which features an English version in the back of the book) illustrated by renowned Chinese artist Ed Young。

《快乐王子和其他故事》《快乐王子和其他故事》

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