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阅读埃里奇·西格尔 Erich Segal在小说之家的作品!!! |
西格尔在美国纽约出生，患上帕金森病已有25年，上周日因为心脏病在伦敦家中离世，遗体本周二在伦敦北部一个犹太人墓地下葬。
西格尔创作的《爱情故事》原本是同名好莱坞电影的剧本，故事讲述了出身高贵的Oliver Barrett四世和平民女子 Jennifer Cavilleri在哈佛大学相识、相爱，克服家庭的阻力并结婚的故事。不久后她去世，而他痛苦万分。写出这个故事时，西格尔还是耶鲁大学的古典学教授，但当电影剧本在1970年成为小说出版，立即成为畅销书，在全球各地热卖。故事中的“爱情意味着你永远不需要说对不起”一时间成为英美世界对于爱情的经典诠释，并成为流行的句式。
埃里奇·西格尔生于1937年，哈佛大学毕业，在校时曾是一位田径运动员。后在耶鲁大学教古典文学和比较文学，为“披头士”乐队写过电影剧本《黄色潜水艇》，当过和平队全国顾问委员会的委员。主要作品有剧本《奥德赛》（1975）、《奥利弗的故事》（1977）、《男人、女人、孩子》（1980）、《级友》（1984）、《医生》《归依记》。目前国内关于他的著作少有引进出版，2007年译林出版社曾引进出版过双语版的《爱情故事》。
在埃里奇·西格尔的所有作品中，《爱情故事》流传最广， 小说 于1970年问世，当年问鼎文学图书销售排行榜，并被改编成电影，至今已被译为23种文字。
埃里奇·西格尔 - 代表作
上世纪70年代经典爱情电影《爱情故事》（Love Story）的同名小说作家西格尔（Erich Segal）日前在伦敦逝世，终年72岁。
在埃里奇·西格尔的所有作品中，《爱情故事》流传最广，小说于1970年问世，当年问鼎文学图书销售排行榜，并被改编成电影，至今已被译为23种文字。在埃里奇·西格尔的代表作《爱情故事》里，名门之后奥利弗撞上他的“刁蛮女友”珍妮，两人一见钟情，口角不断却又愈爱愈深，但这深情的爱，却因珍妮魂归天国而陷入无限凄凉……小说谱写了一曲纯如秋水的爱情，有如一棵清嫩的小草，触动了人心底最柔软的地方，拨动了埋藏最深的心弦，令人刻骨铭心。图书甫一出版，立刻被千百万美国人争相传诵，连时任美国总统尼克松也感动得向全国人民倾情推荐。该书雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首长达41周，精装本在一年内重印21次；以30种文字在全球出版，累计销量超过3000万册，被《时代周刊》评为“美国20世纪10大经典爱情”之一。改编的同名电影，荣获美国全球奖和奥斯卡大奖，亦成为家喻户晓的经典。西格尔创作的《爱情故事》原是同名好莱坞电影的剧本，当时他是耶鲁大学的古典学教授。西格尔在编完剧本后才写了小说版，小说赶在电影上映前的1970年出版，并成为畅销书。影片讲述富家子奥列弗和一位面包师的女儿简真诚相爱，简却被病魔夺去生命的悲剧故事。
影片《爱情故事》1971年上映，由赖恩·奥尼尔和艾丽·麦嘉露主演，当年成为票房冠军，并获得包括最佳电影、导演、男女主角、剧本及配乐等7项奥斯卡奖提名，主题曲《爱情故事》成为经典电影音乐传唱至今。剧本中的经典台词“爱意味着永远没有必要说对不起”被美国电影协会评为世纪最佳电影对白的第13名。
《爱情故事》被争相传诵的时候，续集《奥利弗的故事》出版，立即引起巨大轰动。两书相得益彰，同时受到广大读者的热烈好评。
那还是在怀旧的岁月里，女孩们的裙子还不那么短，头发也不那么长，我去图书馆借书，被我的“刁蛮女友”视作“富裕而愚蠢的预科生”大加呵斥。我对他一见钟情！
我遥望天际，耳边响着她在人间的最后一句话：“请你紧紧抱着我，好吗？”从她离开我的那一刻，我无时不在祈祷：有一天，我们可以重逢！
2010年1月17日，美国著名作家、《爱情故事》的作者埃里奇·西格尔因心脏病死于伦敦家中，享年72岁。
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