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疫情期間 Bob Dylan 推出的單曲 Murder Most Foul 上了排行榜冠軍。下個星期又要推出8年來第一張專輯。
紐約時報刊出從他2016年得到諾貝爾文學獎之後第一次重要的訪問。
其中兩個問題對照起來看很有意思。
一個問題是問他Murder Most Foul 是否懷舊之歌。（歌詞寫甘迺迪被刺的年代。）
他回答不是。他（尤其寫歌詞的時候）都是對當下的自我說話。
另一個問題是問他，在科技和過度工業化之下，2020年是否成了人類再也回不到過去的關鍵點。
Bob Dylan回答得乾淨俐落：根本沒什麼回不回得去。今天的年輕人沒有對過去的記憶，今天就是他們的一切，而他們就是未來的主流。對還記得過去的人來說，過去早就已經是荒蕪。
這就是Bob Dylan 厲害的地方。一個79歲的人，最有資格懷舊的人，卻絕不回頭。
這就是生命力。
AIT一年一度贈送年曆活動現在開始了!
參加此活動的朋友將有機會得到呈現美國黃石公園美景的2017年曆，活動辦法請見以下說明:
美國民謠歌手鮑勃·迪倫獲得了2016年的諾貝爾文學獎，得獎原因是「在美國歌曲的偉大傳統裡，創造新的詩意表現手法」。迪倫的獲獎提醒了我們許多的美國文學作品確實深刻地影響了全世界的人們。你是不是也喜歡美國文學呢? 在這裡先和大家預告，AIT將舉辦一個以美國作家及其與自然世界的關係為主題的展覽。許多偉大的美國作家以驚人的多樣寫作內容形塑了人們對美國風景的看法，從傑克·倫敦的阿拉斯加和育空，到馬克·吐溫的密西西比河，到約翰·史坦貝克的加州。這些作家創造了令人難忘的人物角色以及他們對所居住的土地的認同感。這個展覽將會以地圖、影片、作品文字、圖像和照片呈現出豐富的美國文學遺產。不要錯過這次展覽！關於更多詳細內容我們將會公佈在臉書！敬請密切留意AIT臉書！
要如何獲得美國黃石公園美景的2017年曆呢?
你只需要請在留言處寫下:
1.你最喜歡的美國作家是誰?
2.並寫出那位作家的書裡你最喜歡的一段文字
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Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." This reminds us that many American literary works influence people around the world.
American authors have shaped people’s views of American landscapes in all their astonishing variety - from Jack London's Alaska and the Yukon, to Mark Twain’s Mississippi River, to John Steinbeck's California. In 2017, AIT will hold an exhibition featuring American novelists and their relationships with the natural world. These authors have created unforgettable characters, inseparably identified with the territory they inhabit. AIT’s upcoming exhibition will use the metaphor of a journey to tour this rich literary heritage through maps, videos, the works of authors, images of characters, and photographs. Don’t miss this exhibition! We will keep you posted about it here on Facebook!
To get ready for the exhibit, and for a chance to win a 2017 calendar featuring Yellowstone National Park, all you need to do is:
1. In the comments below this post, tell us who your favorite American writer is?
2. Share a quote or phrase from one of your favorite American writer’s books.
3. Tag two of your friends in your comment.
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Share your response before 10:00 pm on December 26. AIT will randomly select ten fans to receive a calendar.
今年諾貝爾文學獎得主 #BobDylan 發表謝辭。
Bob Dylan:
Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.
I’m sorry I can’t be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming. From an early age, I’ve been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway. These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.
I don’t know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves, but I suppose that anyone writing a book, or a poem, or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside. It’s probably buried so deep that they don’t even know it’s there.
If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I’d have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact, during the year I was born and for a few years after, there wasn’t anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So, I recognize that I am in very rare company, to say the least.
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn’t have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I’m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: “Who’re the right actors for these roles?” “How should this be staged?” “Do I really want to set this in Denmark?” His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. “Is the financing in place?” “Are there enough good seats for my patrons?” “Where am I going to get a human skull?” I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare’s mind was the question “Is this literature?”
When I started writing songs as a teenager, and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities, my aspirations for these songs only went so far. I thought they could be heard in coffee houses or bars, maybe later in places like Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium. If I was really dreaming big, maybe I could imagine getting to make a record and then hearing my songs on the radio. That was really the big prize in my mind. Making records and hearing your songs on the radio meant that you were reaching a big audience and that you might get to keep doing what you had set out to do.
Well, I’ve been doing what I set out to do for a long time, now. I’ve made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it’s my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I’m grateful for that.
But there’s one thing I must say. As a performer I’ve played for 50,000 people and I’ve played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me.
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life’s mundane matters. “Who are the best musicians for these songs?” “Am I recording in the right studio?” “Is this song in the right key?” Some things never change, even in 400 years.
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, “Are my songs literature?”
So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
My best wishes to you all,
Bob Dylan
Banquet speech by Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2016, presented at the Nobel Banquet by the United States Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji.
© The Nobel Foundation 2016
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Read the complete Banquet Speech: goo.gl/oQ9M12
