REPOST：Writer par excellence



相當有意思的一篇文章。

普魯斯特鮮明的個人特色在於晝伏夜出、弱不禁風，一出門就得躺個好幾天才能復原，沒想到在 1973 年的《運動畫刊》(Sports Illustrated) 裡頭，居然出現普魯斯特的身影，目前研究普魯斯特最具權威的學者 William C. Carter 不禁驚呼 amazingly enough…

不過，年輕時候的普魯斯特曾經在網球場上留影：(不確定他會不會打網球，但”窈窕淑女，君子好逑”或是”醉翁之意不在球”應該是大家一致的解讀。)



再者，普魯斯特也曾和一名記者 Jean Lorrain (曾暗諷 Proust 與 Lucien Daudet 有著同性戀的的曖昧關係) 進行決鬥……

“The day of the duel dawned cold and rainy…After stepping off twenty-five paces, Proust and Lorrain each fired one shot at the other, neither scoring a hit…. “ (William C. Carter, Proust in Love)

話說回來，普魯斯特比起喜愛拳擊、打獵以及欣賞鬥牛的美國作家海明威根本也毫不遜色嘛，Carter 教授，似乎您太過於大驚小怪了喲!


http://frenchculture.org/books/blog/writer-par-excellence
Writer par excellence
May 6, 2013 | By William C. Carter

I find it extraordinary that whenever the national media in the U. S. wants to typify the writer par excellence it is usually Proust who is cited. His name crops up all the time in The New Yorker (as do new cartoons to add to the already impressive list; more cartoons devoted to Proust than to any other writer, I'm sure), The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, etc. Not only does Proust have in the U. S. what journalists call an extremely high "name recognition factor", but his image, whether in a photograph or drawing, is instantly identified. Sports Illustrated, amazingly enough, once ran a 10-page article (December 17, 1973) about Proust's "quiet enthusiasm for sports." One would not have been surprised to see so many pages devoted to, say, American novelist Ernest Hemingway, the sports enthusiast who loved boxing and hunting, but to find Proust in those pages is no doubt unexpected. Here is the cover of the SI issue and the opening pages of the article.