閱讀施皮特勒 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler在诗海的作品!!! |
施皮特勒出生在瑞士巴賽爾附近的小城利斯塔爾的一個官吏家庭。先後在蘇黎世大學攻讀法律,在海德堡、巴塞爾研究神學。作傢獲得學位後,應聘至聖彼德堡作教師。(分段)從一九○○年至一九○五年,施皮特勒集中精力,創作〈奧林匹亞山的春天〉。這首詩通過希臘神話諸神爭娶赫拉以獲王位的傳說,闡釋人在這個邪惡、愚昧充斥的世界上,必須與命運奮鬥。施皮特勒的〈奧林匹亞山〉超過兩萬行,具有氣勢宏大、構思完全、韻律工謹、語彙豐美等優點,被本人及許多人視為作傢畢生最好的作品。
主要作品
最具代表性的作品是〈奧林匹亞山的春天〉這首多達兩萬多行的巨型史詩以及《夢中的佳麗 伊瑪果》。作傢除了創作詩,還有寫作小說、戲劇作品。
作品的中譯
諾貝爾文學獎全集編譯委員會/編譯,《斯比特勒》,臺北市:九五文化出版,1981年。
施岷/譯,《奧林匹斯的春天》,桂林:灕江出版社,1996年。
Spitteler was born in Liestal, and from 1863 he studied law at the University of Zurich. In 1865-1870 he studied theology in the same institution, at Heidelberg and Basel. Later he worked in Russia as tutor, starting from August 1871, remaining there (with some periods in Finland) until 1879. Later he was elementary teacher in Bern and La Neuveville, as well as journalist for the Der Kunstwart and as editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In 1883 Spitteler married Marie op der Hoff, previously his pupil in Neuveville.
In 1881 Spitteler published the allegoric prose poem Prometheus and Epimetheus, published under the pseudonym Carl Felix Tandem, and showing contrasts between ideals and dogmas through the two mythological figures of the titles. This 1881 edition was given an extended psychological exegesis by Carl Gustav Jung in his book Psychological Types (published in 1921). Late in life, Spitteler reworked Prometheus and Epimetheus and published it under his true name, with the new title Prometheus der Dulder (Prometheus the Sufferer, 1924).
In 1900-1905 Spitteler wrote the powerful allegoric-epic poem, in iambic hexameters, Olympischer Frühling (Olympic Spring). This work, mixing fantastic, naturalistic, religions and mythological themes, deals with human concern towards the universe. His prose works include Die Mädchenfeinde (Two Little Misogynists, 1907), about his autobiographical childhood experiences, the dramatic Conrad der Leutnant (1898), in which he show influence from the previously opposed Naturalism, and the autobiographical novella Imago (1906), examining the role of unconscious in the conflict between a creative mind and the middle-class restrictions.
During World War I he opposed to the pro-German attitude of the Swiss German-speaking majority, a position put forward in the essay "Unser Schweizer Standpunkt". In 1919 he won the Nobel Prize. Spitteler died at Lucerne in 1924.