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西格爾在美國紐約出生，患上帕金森病已有25年，上周日因為心髒病在倫敦傢中離世，遺體本周二在倫敦北部一個猶太人墓地下葬。
西格爾創作的《愛情故事》原本是同名好萊塢電影的劇本，故事講述了出身高貴的Oliver Barrett四世和平民女子 Jennifer Cavilleri在哈佛大學相識、相愛，剋服家庭的阻力並結婚的故事。不久後她去世，而他痛苦萬分。寫出這個故事時，西格爾還是耶魯大學的古典學教授，但當電影劇本在1970年成為小說出版，立即成為暢銷書，在全球各地熱賣。故事中的“愛情意味着你永遠不需要說對不起”一時間成為英美世界對於愛情的經典詮釋，並成為流行的句式。
埃裏奇·西格爾生於1937年，哈佛大學畢業，在校時曾是一位田徑運動員。後在耶魯大學教古典文學和比較文學，為“披頭士”樂隊寫過電影劇本《黃色潛水艇》，當過和平隊全國顧問委員會的委員。主要作品有劇本《奧德賽》（1975）、《奧利弗的故事》（1977）、《男人、女人、孩子》（1980）、《級友》（1984）、《醫生》《歸依記》。目前國內關於他的著作少有引進出版，2007年譯林出版社曾引進出版過雙語版的《愛情故事》。
在埃裏奇·西格爾的所有作品中，《愛情故事》流傳最廣， 小說 於1970年問世，當年問鼎文學圖書銷售排行榜，並被改編成電影，至今已被譯為23種文字。
埃裏奇·西格爾 - 代表作
上世紀70年代經典愛情電影《愛情故事》（Love Story）的同名小說作傢西格爾（Erich Segal）日前在倫敦逝世，終年72歲。
在埃裏奇·西格爾的所有作品中，《愛情故事》流傳最廣，小說於1970年問世，當年問鼎文學圖書銷售排行榜，並被改編成電影，至今已被譯為23種文字。在埃裏奇·西格爾的代表作《愛情故事》裏，名門之後奧利弗撞上他的“刁蠻女友”珍妮，兩人一見鐘情，口角不斷卻又愈愛愈深，但這深情的愛，卻因珍妮魂歸天國而陷入無限凄涼……小說譜寫了一麯純如秋水的愛情，有如一棵清嫩的小草，觸動了人心底最柔軟的地方，撥動了埋藏最深的心弦，令人刻骨銘心。圖書甫一出版，立刻被千百萬美國人爭相傳誦，連時任美國總統尼剋鬆也感動得嚮全國人民傾情推薦。該書雄踞《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜榜首長達41周，精裝本在一年內重印21次；以30種文字在全球出版，纍计銷量超過3000萬册，被《時代周刊》評為“美國20世紀10大經典愛情”之一。改編的同名電影，榮獲美國全球奬和奧斯卡大奬，亦成為傢喻戶曉的經典。西格爾創作的《愛情故事》原是同名好萊塢電影的劇本，當時他是耶魯大學的古典學教授。西格爾在編完劇本後纔寫了小說版，小說趕在電影上映前的1970年出版，並成為暢銷書。影片講述富傢子奧列弗和一位面包師的女兒簡真誠相愛，簡卻被病魔奪去生命的悲劇故事。
影片《愛情故事》1971年上映，由賴恩·奧尼爾和艾麗·麥嘉露主演，當年成為票房冠軍，並獲得包括最佳電影、導演、男女主角、劇本及配樂等7項奧斯卡奬提名，主題麯《愛情故事》成為經典電影音樂傳唱至今。劇本中的經典臺詞“愛意味着永遠沒有必要說對不起”被美國電影協會評為世紀最佳電影對白的第13名。
《愛情故事》被爭相傳誦的時候，續集《奧利弗的故事》出版，立即引起巨大轟動。兩書相得益彰，同時受到廣大讀者的熱烈好評。
那還是在懷舊的歲月裏，女孩們的裙子還不那麽短，頭髮也不那麽長，我去圖書館藉書，被我的“刁蠻女友”視作“富裕而愚蠢的預科生”大加呵斥。我對他一見鐘情！
我遙望天際，耳邊響着她在人間的最後一句話：“請你緊緊抱着我，好嗎？”從她離開我的那一刻，我無時不在祈禱：有一天，我們可以重逢！
2010年1月17日，美國著名作傢、《愛情故事》的作者埃裏奇·西格爾因心髒病死於倫敦傢中，享年72歲。
Early life
The son of a rabbi, Segal attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and traveled to Switzerland to take summer courses. He attended Harvard College, graduating as both the class poet and Latin salutatorian in 1958, after which he obtained his master's degree (in 1959) and a doctorate (in 1965) in comparative literature, from Harvard University.
[edit]Teaching career
Segal was a professor of Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. He had been a supernumerary fellow and subsequently an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
[edit]Writing career
[edit]Yellow Submarine
In 1967, from the story by Lee Minoff, he wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture, Yellow Submarine.
[edit]Love Story
In the late 1960s, Segal collaborated on other screenplays, and also had written a synthetic romantic story by himself about a Harvard student and a Radcliffe student, but failed to sell it. However, literary agent Lois Wallace at the William Morris Agency suggested he turn the script into a novel and the result was a literary and motion picture phenomenon called Love Story. A New York Times No. 1 bestseller, the book became the top selling work of fiction for 1970 in the United States, and was translated into 33 languages worldwide. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1970.
Segal went on to write more novels and screenplays, including the 1977 sequel to Love Story, called Oliver's Story.
[edit]Writing and teaching after Love Story
He published a number of scholarly works as well as teaching at the university level. He acted as a visiting professor for the University of Munich, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College. He wrote widely on Greek and Latin literature. His novel The Class (1985), a saga based on the Harvard Class of 1958, was also a bestseller, and won literary honour in France and Italy.[citation needed] Doctors was another New York Times bestseller from Segal.
[edit]Family
Segal was married to Karen James from 1975; they had two daughters, Miranda and Francesca Segal. Francesca, born in 1980, is a freelance journalist and literary critic and currently The Observer's Debut Fiction columnist.
[edit]Death
Segal, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died from a heart attack on January 17, 2010, and was buried in London. In a eulogy delivered at his funeral, his daughter Francesca said, "That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was -- a blind obsessionality that saw him pursue his teaching, his writing, his running and my mother, with just the same tenacity. He was the most dogged man any of us will ever know."
[edit]Filmography
Yellow Submarine (1968)
The Games (1970)
R.P.M. (1970)
Love Story (1970)
Jennifer on My Mind (1971)
Oliver's Story (1978)
A Change of Seasons (1980)
Man, Woman and Child (1983)
[edit]Bibliography
Segal, Erich (1970) , Roman laughter : the comedy of Plautus, Harvard studies in comparative literature, Harvard University Press, OCLC 253490621
Segal, Erich (1968), Euripides. A collection of critical essays, Prentice-Hall, OCLC 490074853
Segal, Erich (1993) , Love Story, Oxford bookworms, Oxford University Press, OCLC 271780786
Segal, Erich (1973), Fairy tale, Hodder and Stoughton, ISBN 9780340177037
Segal, Erich (1977), Oliver's Story, Granada, ISBN 9780246110077
Segal, Erich (1980), Man, Woman and Child, Granada, ISBN 9780246113641
Segal, Erich (1983), Oxford readings in Greek tragedy, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198721109
Millar, Fergus; Erich Segal (1984). Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198148585.
Segal, Erich (1985), The Class, Bantam, ISBN 9780593010044
Segal, Erich (1988), Doctors, Toronto, ISBN 9780553052947
Segal, Erich (1992), Acts of Faith, OCLC 472522180
Segal, Erich (1995), Prizes, Bantam, ISBN 9780593038376
Segal, Erich (1996), Four comedies : the braggart soldier, the brothers Menaechmus, the haunted house, the pot of gold, World's classics, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780192831088
Segal, Erich (1997), Only love, G.P. Putnam's Sons, ISBN 9780399143410
Segal, Erich (2001), The death of comedy, Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780674006430
Segal, Erich (2001), Oxford readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 9780198721932
Pelzer, Linda C. (1997), Erich Segal: A Critical Companion, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313299307