2023年1月14日 星期六

「走入她們的房間——女性書寫與空間特展」周芬伶, 《隱形古物商》2022。最先讀《曜變天目》,還以為是世界陶瓷文化史論,卻是本有意思的自傳體小說/故事集,將龐雜的古墓、沉船、古董,玉瓷器物等等考古資料轉譯為振動心靈的文字。Newton (Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives 3) 2006

 

 周芬伶, 《隱形古物商》2022。最先讀《曜變天目》,還以為是世界陶瓷文化史論,卻是本有意思的自傳體小說/故事集,將龐雜的古墓、沉船、古董,玉瓷器物等等考古資料轉譯為振動心靈的文字。Newton (Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives 3) 2006

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周芬伶, 書名:隱形古物商

印刻出版有限公司,出版日期:2022-07

內容簡介

  古物商,識物者
  因惜情而念舊,懂人世之美
  若身旁有這樣的朋友
  他就是你的隱形古物商


  在記憶的深處浮沉,尋找失落的古航海王國
  透悟生死的魔戒歷程,勾勒雲光曜變的情緣
  從個人意識的深海泅泳至集體心靈的汪洋
  每一件使用的器物都與你所屬的文明息息相關


  自我的構成依附許多條件,七情六慾、身分、頭銜、心愛物與人,一個老窩,熟悉的街道……最重要是神的凝視,身處其中,感受神意,而那並非具體神祇或宗教,是心靈超升的力量、無比廣大的愛。──周芬伶

  古物使人入迷,概因它留下線索,揭開縫隙,讓人瞬間與千年時空接壤,親見寄託於器物上的心緒,愛恨栩栩如生。

  周芬伶如文物通靈人,手握通往過去與奇幻的神祕鑰匙,於古墓、沉船、古董收藏家及無數玉瓷器物間徘徊,將龐雜的考古資料轉譯為振動心靈的文字,她理解與世隔絕的孤寂,疼惜封藏千年的帝王或庶民的隱情──在海昏侯墓思索廢帝徬徨無解的苦悶;於婦好墓發現商王朝的女力時代,擘畫《花東婦好》巨幅圖卷:從新安沉船打撈出八百多萬銅錢,想像觸礁時的危難;憑一面破損銅鏡,遙想《辛巴達航海記》的五彩斑斕……。

  世人打破幽冥與海底的寂靜,或是為了文明的證據,但她從古錢、破瓷、佛像和竹簡上,看見的是傷口,飽含冤屈、遺憾、慾望,觸發巨大的書寫動力,她撿拾、珍視這些曾被遺棄或冷落的物語,讓古瓷在新時代裡透光。

  「探索古物,是在追索神的所在。」

  若有神,得自己去找。棲居的老屋漏水,多年收藏都泡在水裡,亦是一艘待解的沉船。整建屋子的同時,她逐一撫觸每件器物的身世,其間藏有揪心或暖心的情誼,層層記憶光影,漸次疊印出故鄉小鎮的輪廓,她重返母親的藥房、潮州老家古厝,看見記憶中的茉莉與桂樹、小祖母的繡花鞋、滿野鮮豔的黃蝶谷、想送給兒子的錶,以及那其中溫厚的體貼和複雜的人情。

  「歲月與生命都是以侵蝕與增生交織的方式進行,讓我們傷痕累累。」情與物都會傷人,但她並不止於傷,她往深處走,挖出靈魂,譬如從一株花樹,她見愛的滲透力與執迷,如愛染明王。
 

作者介紹

作者簡介

周芬伶


  屏東人,政大中文系畢業,東海大學中文研究所碩士,現任教於東海大學中文系。以散文集《花房之歌》榮獲中山文藝獎,《蘭花辭》榮獲首屆台灣文學獎散文金典獎。《花東婦好》獲2018金鼎獎、台北國際書展大獎。作品有散文、小說、文論多種。近著《情典的生成》、《張愛玲課》、《雨客與花客》、《花東婦好》、《濕地》、《北印度書簡》、《紅咖哩黃咖哩》、《龍瑛宗傳》等。
 

目錄

古物商
神的凝視
二手店
傳家之物
錶之為物
我看見昨天
新安沉船
寂靜之歌
航海王
辛巴達航海記
麻六甲
曜變天目
惠仔
臨終之眼
迷蝶
理性與感性的遺囑
愛染茉莉
女子之月
花磚之屋
洋蔥
疊城
去時夏雨,歸來秋涼


Peter Ackroyd

彼得·阿克羅伊德

Peter AckroydCBEFRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William BlakeCharles DickensT. S. EliotCharles Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

Newton (Ackroyd's Brief Lives) 

...In this third volume in the acclaimed Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd provides an engaging portrait of Isaac Newton, illuminating what we think we know about him and describing his seminal contributions to science and mathematics.

A man of wide and eclectic interests, Newton blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation: he was as passionate about astrology as astronomy and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his determination to interpret a modern universe as a mathematical universe.

By brining vividly to life a somewhat puritanical man whose desire to experiment and explore bordered on the obsessive, Peter Ackroyd demonstrates the unique brilliance of Newton’s perceptions, which changed our understanding of the world.



From Publishers Weekly

While the prolific Ackroyd (London, among many others), in this addition to his Brief Lives series, doesn't provide new insights into one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, he does present a well-written distillation of the life and accomplishments of Isaac Newton (1642–1727). Newton's scientific achievements are legend, from the creation of calculus to the formulation of the theory of gravity. Ackroyd asserts that the devout Newton, acting largely alone, institutionalized modern scientific method by demanding data and experimentation rather than supernatural explanations based in belief. Even though Newton studied alchemy, it was always within the construct of science, says Ackroyd. The biographer presents the other side of Newton as well: his quirky personality, the insecurity that made it difficult for him to tolerate any criticism and kept him from publishing many of his ideas for extended periods. And he shows how Newton, a loner as a young man, left the isolation of Cambridge University for London and the public sphere as master of the mint and president of the prestigious Royal Society. The vindictive Newton held extended grudges for slights, real or imagined, and Ackroyd summarizes the decades-long disputes with Robert Hooke and Royal Astronomer John Flamsteed. In short, Ackroyd does a commendable job in this introduction to a very complex genius. Illus. (Apr. 15)


謝謝馨潔,正往高雄演講寶藏散文,高雄朋友來挖寶!
於《文化臺中》再次談談《隱形古物商》這本經典的散文集
生命裡有些東西能放進行囊,有些東西只能放在原處
然而帶得走的帶不走的都是虧負
同時周芬伶、張秀亞、琦君三位作家
「走入她們的房間——女性書寫與空間特展」
在台中作家典藏館持續展出,我過年回台中也定要去!
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帶得走的帶不走的都是虧負——我讀《隱形古物商》
「可能内心的深淵要在惡劣的環境,才會噴出熔漿,那令你目不轉睛的不是實體,而是久遠的陰暗之物,有敗壞,也有微光閃爍。」《隱形古物商》中,周芬伶筆下的古物,隱喻散置於人生沿途,靜待在回顧中重新被拾取安放,不忍捨棄的記憶。
舊屋在颱風下不堪居住,漏水與剝落如一艘沈船,屋內各樣的收藏古物像是浸泡在海水裡。當她搶救物件至租屋處時,一次只能帶走一些珍愛的物品,同遭遇船難,取或捨,棄逃或重建?糾結難當。等待舊家的修繕,生活也好像失去座標與存在感,失去神靈的看顧與注視。
人生的考古學繼續下挖,回顧雙親過世後,最不敢觸及的原鄉潮州,有母親經營的藥房,是戲曲興盛之地,也曾是歷史上瘧疾研究根據地。歷史流變的注入,是散文書寫的時空維度被凸顯,微觀的宇宙與宏觀的人生相映相涉。器物彷彿成為世情的具象化,對器物的執著,也是對人事的銘記與複習,在過往遺跡打撈,動盪中帶得走的、帶不走的都是虧負。
在近幾年文壇上的長照與疾病書寫中,周芬伶式的散文獨樹一幟,能夠在議題上迭出新意,文字更是既舒展又能恣意瀟灑的跳連流轉。《隱形古物商》寫出器物的故事,正如她所說「有種深深的悲傷不能碰觸,那些古物都是傷口」無論日用飲食的杯盞,或是二手名牌包,皆與生活緊密結合,承載著人世辛酸,每一次的易主都是一次的震盪,無論是人生或歷史的血光或覆滅。
數十年如一日的沉潛書寫,周芬伶細緻的盤著記憶,以文字為器載負心緒,著作一本比一本讓人驚艷讚嘆,隱形古物商從包袱裡拿出一樣樣珍品,說起背後的故事,讓人目眩心馳。

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