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迷惘一代的文学The Literature of the Lost Generation
The Literature of the Lost Generation迷惘一代的文学
“它是奇迹的年代，艺术的年代，过剩的年代，也是讽刺的年代。” ——《爵士时代的回声》，菲茨杰拉德，纽约 1920年代，巴黎充满宽阔大道的重建已过去150年，第二次工业革命完成了近十年，而它的终结——第一次世界大战则刚刚结束。 1920年代，沙龙已存在了两百多年，《心理学原理》出版了30年，“爵士乐”之名刚发明5年。 这是’Jazz Age’, ‘Années folles’, ‘Goldenen Zwanziger’，也是“迷惘的一代”。现代已死，而20年代就是其高峰与灵魂；当代在此，不可避免地建构于其上。 如果你也想见到蝙蝠闪烁的面目、想听到夜的碎片纷扬，如果你也迷惘，那就来吧。雨水中的意象仍待拾起，12节的蓝调还可继续，散文、小说和宣言仍叠在桌上，海明威、艾略特和马里涅提都在等你。 本周五晚，让我们继续百年前的沙龙。 Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table…' ————《普鲁弗洛克的情歌》，艾略特 问题： 用一两句话描述一个令你印象深刻的物体或场景吧。 今年 Met Gala 的主题是《在美国：鎏金年代》，有谁的造型令你印象深刻吗？ 分享来自或有关1920年代的一部文艺作品或一位创作者吧。 你如何理解现代性及其与后现代的区别？ 简短的参考阅读： 庞德的《在地铁站》（只有两行） https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Station_of_the_Metro 施坦因的《画家们的三幅画像：马蒂斯》 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55214/matisse 朗斯顿·休斯的《疲劳的蓝调》 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5G3Q13BL5U
"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, Echoes of the Jazz Age, New York In the 1920s, 150 years had passed since Paris was rebuilt with its broad boulevards; the Second Industrial Revolution had been complete for nearly a decade, and its end, the First World War, had only just finished. In the 1920s, the salon had existed for more than two hundred years, The Principles of Psychology had been out for thirty years, and the name "jazz" had been coined only five years before. This was the 'Jazz Age', the 'Années folles', the 'Goldenen Zwanziger', and also the "Lost Generation". The modern is dead, and the twenties were its peak and its soul; the contemporary is here, inevitably built upon it. If you too want to see the flickering faces of bats and hear the fragments of the night scatter, if you too are lost, then come. The images in the rain are still waiting to be picked up, the twelve-bar blues can play on, essays, novels and manifestos are still piled on the table, and Hemingway, Eliot and Marinetti are all waiting for you. This Friday evening, let us carry on the salon of a hundred years ago. Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table…' —T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Questions: Describe in a sentence or two an object or scene that made a deep impression on you. This year's Met Gala theme was "In America: Gilded Glamour". Did anyone's look stand out to you? Share a work of art or literature, or a creator, from or about the 1920s. How do you understand modernity, and how does it differ from postmodernity? Short suggested reading: Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro (just two lines) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Station_of_the_Metro Gertrude Stein, Matisse, from Two Portraits of Painters https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55214/matisse Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5G3Q13BL5U