2019年11月21日 星期四

Victor Hugo said that “to name Voltaire is to characterise the entire eighteenth century: ”Common sense is rare. Ian Buruma 部分著作:Voltaire's Coconuts: or Anglomania in Europe 伏爾泰的椰子︰歐洲的英國文化熱; 佩夫斯納博士Sir Nikolaus Pevsner 等



雨果說得好。 Will Durant 的史書也要用伏爾太的時代。他的檔案,似乎在英國的劍橋大學。
The Economist
Voltaire—a writer, philosopher and vocal critic of the abuses of the French Ancien Régime—was born on November 21st 1694. Victor Hugo said that “to name Voltaire is to characterise the entire eighteenth century”









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之路,是一部探究反西方情緒及極富洞察力的作品。 作者簡介 伊恩.布魯瑪 Ian Buruma 生於荷蘭,於萊頓大學(Leyden University)研究中國與日本文學,在東京的日本大學藝學部(Nihon University...... more

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Voltaire's Coconuts: or Anglomania in Europe Hardcover – 11 Mar 1999
by Ian Buruma  (Author)




Voltaire's Coconuts is a wonderfully engaging and witty combination of history and biography which looks at how Europeans have been fascinated by all that it means to be English. Dutch by birth, Buruma came to live in England in 1990 for the third time in his life and noticed a new mood of introspection. Englishness was a subject of endless discussion. Fox hunting was debated, loyalty to English cricket a hot issue, and the future of the monarchy rarely out of the news. This worrying over Englishness resulted, in Buruma's words, 'in great balls of intellectual wool', obscuring the more practical reasons why Europeans have admired (or hated) Britain in the past: its liberal institutions, its civil liberties, its delicate balance between social order and the free pursuit of self-interest. In this brilliant and elegantly written book Buruma examines these ideas about Englishness and what Europeans admired or loathed about Britain. Voltaire wondered why British laws could not be planted in France, or even Serbia, like the precious seeds of coconut trees. Karl Marx thought the English were too stupid to start a revolution; Goethe worshipped Shakespeare; Baron de Coubertin's idea of the modern Olympic Games was inspired by Tom Brown's Schooldays; Theodor Herzl's dream of the Jewish state was fuelled by his love of British aristocracy; and the German Kaiser was convinced that Britain was run by Jews. Combining biographical stories of these European Anglophiles and Anglophobes with memories of his own Anglo-Dutch-German-Jewish family, Ian Buruma has found a wholly original way of describing the relationship between Britain and Europe. This is a dazzlingly clever book which through its exploration of anglomania shows how much Englishness and people's view of it has shaped modern Europe.


Amazon Review

Ian Buruma's wonderful book on Europe's fascination with England takes its title from a remark made by Voltaire in the mid-18th century: wasn't it possible for England's love of law and liberty to be planted, like the seeds of coconut trees, throughout Europe? Voltaire was the ultimate Anglophile: liberal, humorous, enlightened and ultimately humane, not unlike Buruma himself, whose delightful Voltaire's Coconuts weaves a compelling story, from Voltaire onward, of the ways in which European exiles and emigrés have fallen under the spell of the intangible mix of snobbery, liberalism, xenophobia and tolerance which make up what it means to be English.
Buruma's roll call of Anglophiles is impressive. Wonderful sections on Voltaire are followed by chapters on Goethe's Bardolatry, a marvellously vivid account of frustrated revolutionary exiles in Victorian London (including Marx and Mazzini), Theodor van Herzl's vision of a Jewish state based on his admiration of the English aristocracy. The book concludes with sketches of two of the most influential Anglophiles of 20th-century English culture: Nikolaus Pevsner and Isaiah Berlin. But as well as being an elegant and witty cultural history of European "Anglomania", Voltaire's Coconuts never loses sight of the darker side of national belonging, as Buruma interweaves his own complex family history into his narrative, as well as some subtle and perceptive accounts of the state of the nation as Buruma views it from the office of The Spectator and the Conservative Party Conference in post-Thatcherite Britain. A marvellous book about belonging and Englishness: witty, erudite, subtle and above all humane. --Jerry Brotton

Synopsis

Voltaire's Coconuts is a wonderfully engaging and witty combination of history and biography which looks at how Europeans have been fascinated by all that it means to be English. Dutch by birth, Buruma came to live in England in 1990 for the third time in his life and noticed a new mood of introspection. Englishness was a subject of endless discussion. Fox hunting was debated, loyalty to English cricket a hot issue, and the future of the monarchy rarely out of the news. This worrying over Englishness resulted, in Buruma's words, 'in great balls of intellectual wool', obscuring the more practical reasons why Europeans have admired (or hated) Britain in the past: its liberal institutions, its civil liberties, its delicate balance between social order and the free pursuit of self-interest. In this brilliant and elegantly written book Buruma examines these ideas about Englishness and what Europeans admired or loathed about Britain. Voltaire wondered why British laws could not be p lanted in France, or even Serbia, like the precious seeds of coconut trees.
Karl Marx thought the English were too stupid to start a revolution; Goethe worshipped Shakespeare; Baron de Coubertin's idea of the modern Olympic Games was inspired by Tom Brown's Schooldays; Theodor Herzl's dream of the Jewish state was fuelled by his love of British aristocracy; and the German Kaiser was convinced that Britain was run by Jews. Combining biographical stories of these European Anglophiles and Anglophobes with memories of his own Anglo-Dutch-German-Jewish family, Ian Buruma has found a wholly original way of describing the relationship between Britain and Europe. This is a dazzlingly clever book which through its exploration of anglomania shows how much Englishness and people's view of it has shaped modern Europe.


伏爾泰的椰子︰歐洲的英國文化熱
簡體書 , [英]伊恩‧布魯瑪(Ian Buruma) 劉雪嵐 蕭萍 , 生活‧讀書‧新知三聯書店 , 出版日期: 2007-02-01
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伏爾泰、歌德、馬志尼、赫爾岑、馬克思、顧拜旦、德王威廉二世、哈耶克、以賽亞‧伯林。這些歐陸不同時期在政治、思想和文化領域的標志性人物,因為一個共同的特征而被伊恩‧布魯瑪組織到一起︰他們或是深切的“崇英... more

伏爾泰的椰子︰歐洲的英國文化熱


內容簡介

伏爾泰、歌德、馬志尼、赫爾岑、馬克思、顧拜旦、德王威廉二世、哈耶克、以賽亞‧伯林。這些歐陸不同時期在政治、思想和文化領域的標志性人物,因為一個共同的特征而被伊恩‧布魯瑪組織到一起︰他們或是深切的“崇英者”,或是“仇英的崇英者”。光榮革命後的英國有著令人歆羨的自由貿易、遠征探險、自由和理性的政治理念和社會制度,還有教育“特產”公學及其培養的“英國紳士”。三百多年來,崇英風尚吸引了包括俄羅斯在內的歐洲各國的自由主義者,“英國性”成了一個說不盡的話題。

然而作者也指出,英國迷心目中的英國往往只是想象的產物,因而,“他們中的大多數,尤其晃那些充滿幻想的,最終都會發現自己的夢想因幻滅而暗淡了光彩。”

目錄

伏爾泰的椰子——兼評普世理想(代譯離) 陸建德
第一章 丘吉爾的雪茄
第二章 伏爾泰的椰子
第三章 歌德的莎士比亞
第四章 芬格爾的山洞
第五章 園林迷
第六章 革命的墓地
第七章 學校生活
第八章 喜愛運動的人
第九章 瓦格納的門徒
第十章 猶太人的板球
第十一章 仇英的崇英者
第十二章 萊斯利‧霍華德
第十三章 佩夫斯納博士



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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner

Nikolaus Pevsner.jpg
Born
Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner

30 January 1902
Died18 August 1983 (aged 81)
London, England
Resting placeChurchyard of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationPhD (1924)
Alma materUniversities of LeipzigMunichBerlin, and Goethe University Frankfurt
OccupationArt and architectural historian
Notable work
The Buildings of England
Spouse(s)
Lola Kurlbaum (m. 1923)
ChildrenUta Pevsner, Tom Pevsner, Dieter Pevsner
Parent(s)Hugo and Anna Pevsner
AwardsAlbert Medal (1975)
Websitewww.pevsner.co.uk
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner CBE FBA (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).
Pevsner died at home in Wildwood Terrace,[19] Hampstead, London, in August 1983.[20] His wife predeceased him by 20 years.
His memorial service was held at the Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury, the following December, with the memorial address being given by Alec Clifton-Taylor, a friend of 50 years. He is buried in the churchyard of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard, in Wiltshire

第十四章 穿格子呢外套的男人
第十五章 最後一個英國人
參考書目
譯後記



1726年5月,在國內不斷惹禍的伏爾泰渡海進泰晤士河口,在格林尼治踏上英國國土。他與曾流亡法國的英國托利黨政治家博林布魯克相識,又持有當時英國駐法大使的介紹信,抵英後結交了不少名流與文人。伏爾泰兩年多的旅英生活以及後來寫下的有關英國的文字使他得到“親英”的名聲。他究竟贊賞英國社會的哪些方面?

也許英國人對商業的開明態度使他感佩。1733年,他在《賽羅》劇情的啟發下創作了悲劇《扎伊爾》,並把它題贈給招待過他的英國商人佛科納。他在獻詞上寫道︰

我把這部悲劇題贈給你,有如我題贈給同國的文人和知交一樣。……同時我能夠很高興地告訴我的國人,你們用何種目光看待商人,在英國,對于光耀國家的職業,大家知道尊重。

同年問世的英文版《哲學通信》,直譯應為《關于英國的通信》(Letters Concerning the English Nation,法文版Lettres Philosophiques晚一年出版)里有一封信專論商業。伏爾泰發現,“商業已使英國的公民富浴起來了,而且還幫助他們獲得了自由,而這種自由又轉過來擴張了商業;國家的威望就從這些方面形成壯大了。”看來商業的發達是與財產自由、人身自由和法治的精神相輔相成的。數十年後,伏爾泰在《關于百科全書的問題》(1771)“政府”條目第六節說到英國法律時突然發問︰“為什麼別的國家不采取這些法律呢?這樣是否等于問為什麼椰子在印度能成熟,在羅馬就不會?”他本人對答案並非十分肯定,因而承認,英國法律有時難以奏效,產生這些法律需要時間,再說別國的仿效也未必成功。但是他的提議毫不含糊︰這英國法律的椰予全世界都不妨“試種一下”。



伏爾泰的椰子是“理性”十字軍征討的戰旗,它是啟蒙哲學普世主義的特產,也是一本好書的題目。伏爾泰以及其他一些歐陸人十與英國的因緣、糾葛和嫌怨是伊恩‧布魯瑪《伏爾泰的椰子——歐洲的英國文化熱》(1999)一書的主要話題。友人于2000年夏天訪游英倫,布魯瑪先生以此書相贈,筆者先睹為快。這位布魯瑪先生1950年生于荷蘭海牙,父親是荷蘭人,母親是英國人(外公外婆又是移居英國的德國猶太人),從小便有英國情結。英國是很多體育項目的發祥地,而板球是最能代表英格蘭的運動。布魯瑪年幼時就加入了海牙板球俱樂部,也許是不自覺地借以獲取一種文化身份的象征。俱樂部成員用黃黑兩色的領帶,劍橋大學克萊爾學院的絲質領帶和羊毛長圍巾,也是同樣的顏色,成為他的最愛。那是一個以符合劃定小圈子的復雜世界,聰明但又十分勢利的海牙少年通過衣著用品和獨特的色彩搭配“形塑”出英國味道十足的自我來。布魯瑪在萊登大學攻讀中文後赴東京研究日本電影,後來相繼擔任《遠東經濟評論》和親撒切爾的《帝觀者》雜志的記者,現任美國巴德學院(位于哈德遜河畔,離紐約不遠)“人權與新聞學”講席教授,常為《紐約書評》撰稿,該刊評哈金(金雪飛筆名)得獎小說《等待》的文章就是他寫的。布魯瑪還受愛德華‧薩義德啟發,與人合著了《西方主義》(2004)一書,專門講述西方如何在它敵人的筆下被程式化。

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