诺贝尔文学奖得主马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨语录

诺贝尔文学奖得主马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨语录

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今天是2010年诺贝尔文学奖得主马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨（Mario Vargas Llosa）的82岁生日。他拥有秘鲁与西班牙双重国籍，创作过小说、剧本、散文随笔、诗歌、文学评论、政论杂文，也曾导演过舞台剧和电影，主持过广播电视节目，还从事过政治工作。

在我2015年编译的一篇博文“有史以来*佳小说100种” （http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1557-919261.html）中，略萨的Conversation in the Cathedral（教堂里的对话）上榜。

下面翻译一些他的语录，以此向这位文学家致敬。

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

文学是危险的；它会唤醒我们体内的反叛态度。

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

创造力----如何成为一名优秀作家----是无法讲授的。但是，你可以帮助年轻作家自我发现，他到底想成为一名什么样的作家。

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

现实是*丰富多彩、*重要的事物。我们的想象使我们能过上一种美好的、*其丰富多彩的虚构生活，但我不相信有哪个艺术家敢声称，虚构事物比现实生活更美好。

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

*吸引我的小说，不太可能是通过智力或理性的渠道影响到我的，而更可能是使我入迷的。

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

由于我们秘鲁人无法弄清到底发生了什么，于是我们就说谎，虚构，梦想，在幻觉中寻求安慰。由于这些古怪的境遇，秘鲁人的人生就成了文学性的人生，尽管没有多少秘鲁人真的在阅读东西。

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

你知道吧，如果你因为身为作家而被砍了头，那就说明你受到了至高无上的尊重。

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

说囚犯过着像动物一样的生活是不准确的，因为动物的活动空间要大得多。

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

对于一个渴望自由的社会，优秀文学是**不可缺少的。

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

不管小说的生命多么短暂，它总是个东西，而绝望则是空无。

Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

好小说是许多因素造成的，*主要的一条，毫无疑问就是艰苦的努力。好小说的背后有很多东西，但是尤其值得一提的是，其背后有很多努力----很多的耐心，很多的倔强，还有批评精神。

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

人无法与自己作战，因为这场战斗的输方永远不会有第二个。

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

回忆是一张罗网，纯净而简单；它在改变，微妙地重新安排过去以适应当今。

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella

生活是乱糟糟的暴风雨，艺术是生活中**的伞。（这是略萨小说中的人物说的话）