The Arcades Project

"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas."
Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things--a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age.
The Arcades Project is Benjamin’s effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things.

Translators’ Foreword
Exposés

"Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1935)

"Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1939)
Convolutes

Overview
First Sketches
Early Drafts

"Arcades"

"The Arcades of Paris"

"The Ring of Saturn"
Addenda

Exposé of 1935, Early Version

Materials for the Exposé of 1935

Materials for "Arcades"
"Dialectics at a Standstill," by Rolf Tiedemann

"The Story of Old Benjamin," by Lisa Fittko
Translators’ Notes

Guide to Names and Terms

Index
書評: 內心活動——文學評論集 Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee

巴黎夢幻拱廊街：在右岸，如詩交織的時間甬道

作者：鹿島茂
譯者：林佩儀
出版社：麥田
出版日期：2009年

◆ 前往拱廊街：時間旅行的指引 009
◆ 前言
◆ 拱廊街導覽：19條散步路徑
01 維侯．鐸達拱廊街　巴黎的威尼斯　034
02 薇薇安拱廊街　飄盪摩登復古香　040
03 柯爾貝拱廊街　圓廳的白日夢　048
04 施華瑟拱廊街　人潮絡繹不絕　056
05 全景拱廊街　昔日榮景已不復在　064
06 茹浮華拱廊街　超現實主義者的聖地　074
07 維爾多拱廊街　令人愛戀的落魄味　084
08 王子拱廊街　開幕一個月後急轉直下的薔薇色未來　090
09 瑪德蓮拱廊街　藉以懷念瑪德蓮廣場的榮景　094
10 皮托拱廊街　存在本身就不可思議　98
11 阿弗爾拱廊街　歷史記憶的消滅　100
12 凡登拱廊街　殘存於蕭條之中　102
13 巨鹿拱廊街　巨鹿甦醒了　106
14 布爾拉貝拱廊街　對手消失便意志消沉　110
15 開羅拱廊街　最古老且最長，然而值得一提的東西……　112
16 紅罌粟拱廊街　一無所有，徒留空名　116
17 普哈多拱廊街　危險的裝飾藝術天花板　118
18 布哈迪拱廊街　熱鬧的異國巷弄　120
19 香榭麗舍拱廊街　集裝飾藝術之精華　122
◆ 拱廊街地圖 126
◆ 追憶逝去的拱廊街 129
木頭拱廊街∕奧爾良拱廊街∕歌劇院拱廊街∕新橋拱廊街∕鮭魚拱廊街
◆ 閱讀拱廊街　《娜娜》，左拉∕《緩期死亡》，路易．費迪南．塞琳　148
◆後記

　人都說巴黎唯有左岸，左岸飄盪了咖啡香、濃郁的人文氣。
　　然而我的靈魂更牽繫著右岸，那19條各擁風華的拱廊街，
　　穿梭著迷漾、謎樣的三度、五度、無限度軌道，如詩交織；
　　我在右岸，我在這長長短短曲曲折折的拱廊街，遊走停佇迷失疾奔。
　　我在右岸，我是拱廊街依存症者，
　　我擁有右岸這如夢似幻的拱廊街，我擁抱了整個巴黎。
　　「拱廊街就是一座城市，甚至可說是一個微型世界。」——德國哲學家　班雅明
　　集中在巴黎右岸的拱廊街，是十九世紀最重要的建築。歷經一百五十年的風霜，在八○年代後期隨著復古風潮復活。巴黎人在拱廊街裡的生活、曖昧、詩意浪漫，透過雨果、波特萊爾、福樓拜、巴爾札克、左拉等文學家筆下鮮活躍然紙上，為世人嚮往。拱廊街裡有文人藝術家偏愛的懷舊地點，時尚的鑲嵌彩繪地板及精品店櫥窗，宛若博物館的燈飾與浮雕，政商偏愛的餐廳......猶如一條長長的時光隧道，拱廊街將過去曾經的繁華記憶完完整整地保存紀錄下來。
　　作者鹿島茂以長年對法國文化的深入研究，探索挖掘巴黎拱廊街背後的故事與人文思考，底蘊豐富的文字搭配大量美麗的影像，重現那詩意又令人嚮往的往日風華。走在拱廊街裡，我們不僅僅單純望見昔日巴黎人的日常生活，也看見過去人們對未來做著烏托邦集體夢的意識。
作者簡介
鹿島茂
　　1949年生於橫濱，旅法日本文學作家，也是重量級法國學研究專家。東京大學研究所人文科學研究科博士，專攻19世紀法國的社會與文化。著作質量均優，曾榮獲多種獎項：包括山多利學藝賞、講談社散文賞、Tushodo Gesner Award，以及讀賣文學賞評論、傳記賞，每日書評賞等。
　　著有《愛書狂》、《職業別巴黎風俗》、《巴黎時間旅行》（果實）、《明天是舞會：19世紀法國女性的時尚生活》（如果）、《巴黎文學散步》（山岳）等書。
譯者簡介
林佩儀
　　輔仁大學日文系畢。工作數年，為體驗日劇生活，進入早稻田大學日本語專修別科進修；其後受日本崇法文化影響，07年秋天飛往南法苦練法文一年。目前專職日文翻譯、口譯與教學。

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