A Room on the Route By Godfrey Blunden. 莫斯科的寒夜 夏濟安譯 夏志清等補

  A Room on the Route By Godfrey Blunden. 莫斯科的寒夜  引15/處46 處

"Listen,” Mitka said, "would 1 bring him here if he were 
not a good one? Besides he brings vodka. 

"Vodka! Vodka! You would do anything for Vodka," the 
woman said. She seemed suddenly distraught, her large 
eyes opening wide beneath the black brows. 

I acted as though 1 had just understood the word and 
brought the liter of vodka from my overcoat pocket, setting 
it on the table. Rachel suddenly left the room. 1 looked at 
Mitka. 

We drank vodka and we ate little scraps of caviar while we 
talked about the theater in Moscow; about the Bolshoi being 
closed because of the bomb which hit the foyer, about the ex- 
cellent performances of the ballerinas. Bank and Lepishinskia. 

I looked at Mitka. He was pouring himself a short glass of 
vodka. His round face showed no interest in the conversation. 

I looked at Mitka. I thought I detected a faint shrug of his 
stout shoulders. He was pouring another glass of vodka. 

The burgeoning in the dense competitive life of the South- 
ern Ukraine at the beginning of the century: yellowing wheat- 
fields, fruit trees, girls with colored kerchiefs around their 
heads, wild strawberries, fresh butter, vodka and honcycakes, 
the husks of sunflower seeds everywhere in the dusty streets;

Mitka was making signs at me, which I interpreted as mean- 
ing this was the appropriate moment to produce the vodka. 

I took the opportunity to get up and go for my overcoat. 

We drank tea and munched the hard pretzels; There was vodka 
— with the hot potatoes. We talked idly. 

Mitka poured the last of the vodka into the glasses. With 
a disarming grin he turned to me and toasted me in English. 
Prove you're not a camel/' he said. 

But the men had found 
some bread and a few bottles of vodka in an abandoned 
army wagon and now, camped in this disused factory for 
the night, with a fire burning, they ate, or they lay sleeping 
of exhaustion, some stirring about seeking wood, others 
standing guard.

 He looked at them now as they munched hunks of 
black bread, taking short gulps of grey peasant vodka, and 
he found them wholly felicitous comrades. Their faces, 
partly illuminated by the light from the tire, were Russian 
faces; though unshaven, unwashed, with the smoke and 

A Room on the Route By Godfrey Blunden. 莫斯科的寒夜 夏濟安譯 夏志清等補

A Room on the Route

著者: Godfrey Blunden

此小說英文本在Google Books 售價171元。
也能免費取得。 https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.504271/2015.504271.A-Room_djvu.txt
書名、章名等，夏濟安先生都將它"化"為容易記憶的中文*；原書名意思為"；原書名意思為"官道上的一間房屋"。

*舉例

"You say trollybi/s. Yes. I have heard you speak of the 
tanka and the inachina. Just now you say telephona and airr- 
port. They are Russian words.” 

"Russian inventions,” I said, "like the Metro**.” 

".True,” Mitka said. "It is monumental.” "那是了不起的建築。"

** Metro 可能是從法與轉俄語

夏志清在譯文前補中西人名對照表，因為憑中文難記。
其實，地名也很重要：第一章開頭去"伊斯托拉夫"，是Istra
Istra, Istrinsky District, Moscow Oblast, a town in Istrinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia

Mitka was very proud of his English. During the day as we 
drove back to Moscow (we had been to Istra) 

試閱

莫斯科的寒夜

• 作者： 高夫力．白倫敦   新功能介紹
• 譯者： 夏濟安
• 出版社：大地出版社  
  
• 出版日期：1979/12/15
• 語言：繁體中文

• 定價：165元

本書由濟安先生胞弟夏志清先生作序。以俄國為背景，揭露史達林共產主義奴役人民的暴政，殘摧智識份子的真相，一九四六年出版後，國外「時代週刊」、「禮拜六文藝評論」、「大西洋」等月刊都大力贊揚，譽為極震撼人世，揭露蘇俄內幕的佳作。

夏志清的序，大抵介紹了作者。

現在有更好點的資料：

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Godfrey Blunden (1906–1996) was an Australian journalist and author.

Godfrey Blunden was born in Melbourne. While he was a journalist in Sydney in the early 1930s he write his first novel No More Reality a "small country town" novel, published in 1935 by Jonathan Cape. Even though the edition was only 500 copies it was considered important, due to praise from Norman Lindsay, Brian Penton in the Bulletin, and others in the Telegraph and elsewhere in the Sydney press.^[1] Early Australian modernist poet Ronald McCuaig dedicated his 1938 book of poems Vaudeville to Blunden.^[2]

Employed by the Sydney Daily Telegraph Blunden was sent to England in 1941 and covered the Battle of Britain, before being travelling in 1942 to the Soviet Union, where he covered fighting in the Stalingrad (Volgograd) and Kharkov (Kharkiv) fronts. His dispatches were also published in the London Evening Standard.^[1] He was one of the few western reporters to witness and report on the Battle of Stalingrad, which ended with the surrender of German forces in the city in February 1943, as well as subsequent fighting around Kharkov and Rzhev.

After returning to England in 1944, he covered the battles in the Netherlands and Germany, while attached to the US Ninth Air Force and the US Ninth Army.

He met Maria Rothenberg-Craipeau in Paris a month after the liberation of the city and after the war they both left for the United States, where they got married and lived eleven years. He worked for Time for 14 years as a reporter in New York and later as a correspondent in Paris and received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 1953. He left Time-Life in 1965 to concentrate on novels and non-fiction. The Blundens settled in Paris and later in Vence, France.^[3] He never returned to Australia and was a permanent expatriate and an exile, but he was a passionate Australian and never gave up his close bond with the country through exchanging letters and receiving visits from his extended family and later devoting most of his writing to Australian subjects and themes.

Blunden authored several novels, including A Room on the Route and The Time of the Assassins.^[4] His novel Charco Harbour is a modernist historical fiction on Captain James Cook and his journey along the Australian coast in 1768. He died in Paris in 1996.^[1]

Select works[edit]

• No More Reality, 1935
• A Room on the Route, 1951
• The Time of the Assassins, 1953
• The Looking Glass Conference, 1957
• Charco Harbour, 1968

Non-fiction select works[edit]

• The Land and People of Australia, 1954
• Australia and Her People, 1960
• Impressionists and impressionism (with Maria Blunden), 1972
• Norman Lindsay Watercolours. Fifteen Reproductions in Colour from Original Watercolours with an Appreciation of the Medium By Norman Lindsay and a Survey of the Artist's Life and Work, 1973

References[edit]

1. ^ Jump up to:^a b c Buckridge, P. (2002). A Kind of Exile: Godfrey Blunden - An Australian in Paris. Journal of Australian Studies, 73, 111–118. https://experts.griffith.edu.au/publication/nbf20896eb1e336daed8ec502f8499ea4
2. ^ QUOD RONALD MCCUAIG http://www.nicolemccuaig.com/project/quod/
3. ^ Blundens in Australia
4. ^ [preface to CHARCO HARBOUR, Godfrey Blunden,1968, Penguin]