人和書 ( Men and Books) : John Richard Jefferies

2011年2月26日星期六

John Richard Jefferies

理查德.杰弗里斯
燕子歸時天津:百花文藝 2003 倪慶(金+氣)

燕子归时, 百花文艺,

百花文艺出版社出版的：史蒂文生游记选。翻译倪庆汽(最后一个字电脑里找不到)

神秘的自然作家 John Richard Jefferies 的主要作品在網路上都找得到包括他著名的自傳

...... Bevis: the Story of a Boy (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882)

(6 Nove mber 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not."^[1]