西方思想與閱讀金星文的困境

表妹跟我抱怨法國哲學好難懂，我想是也不是，尤其看過一些很艱澀的介紹性學術文章後，這個現象讓我十足警惕，看來台灣不僅有中小學學生創造了無釐頭的火星文，還有讓人眼冒金星的金星文。
傅科Foucault、德勒茲Deleuze或洪席耶Rancière的法文原著，其實並不困難，大部份的問題出在翻譯人或詮釋者的文筆很抱歉，說文解字的語境不詳還捲圈圈。讓後來人(學生)再繼續咬文嚼字，畫蛇添足。

The communicability of experience

Walter Benjamin, “Der Erzähler” (The Storyteller)

The storyteller does not try to convey dry, impersonal information; he sinks the story into his own life, in order to bring it out of him again. Story-telling itself is not a liberal art, but a craft. The great story is therefore a carefully crafted thing, the “precious product of a long chain of causes similar to one another”. It takes time, a lot of time, to create such a story; and this is why story-telling is dying out.

Les Litanies de Satan

Ô toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges,
Dieu trahi par le sort et privé de louanges,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Ô Prince de l’exil, à qui l’on a fait tort
Et qui, vaincu, toujours te redresses plus fort,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui sais tout, grand roi des choses souterraines,
Guérisseur familier des angoisses humaines,
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!
Toi qui, même aux lépreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes par l’amour le goût du Paradis,

遲到的«海浪» 終於出版

Finally, Virginia Woolf’s « The waves » has a traditional chinese (Taiwan’s) version. A young director of contemporary theatre, Wei, Ying-chuan wrote an article to recommend this book. She thought that this novel could be played like in a poly-monologue way in the theater’s stage. There could be 6 characters who sit on the stage without any action but only talking in turn. A world of <talking> on the stage! Ja! I think of Marc Liebens’ « Les 7 contre Thèbes » at T. Grütli and my mobile installation « Je m’échappe tous les jours » ! héhé…

Elfriede Jelinek, a post-modern sorcery ?

Elfriede Jelinek (b. 1946), 算是當今德語文化圈的翹楚人物，酷得不得了 !