范柳原懺情錄 （李歐梵著）∕ 傾城之戀（張愛玲著）
(Confessions of a Profligate, Fan Liuyuan by Lee Ou-fan /
Love in a Fallen City by Zhang Ai-ling)

 

About the books

...作者替張愛玲的《傾城之戀》寫續篇，以“范柳原”的自白情書為形式，寫成了《范柳原懺情錄》這樣一部後設小說。 把一個一生風流，老來一事無成的老男人那種自怨自艾，自憐復自大的心理刻劃得入木三分。
This book is a sequel to the book, Love in a Fallen City, written by the acclaimed author, Zhang Ai-ling. Based on Fan Liuyuan's own love letters, the author, Lee Ou-fan has successfully created the most memorable character in this book. This account of the vicissitudes of the character掇 life is not strictly chronological but focuses on distinct aspects illuminating character掇 emotion stage and unconscious drives; from the mischievous youth to an e-ventually contentious, lugubrious old man.

Click to read an extract from 《范柳原懺情錄》：
﹣ 小序：為香港寫一個愛情故事
﹣ 楔子：范柳原最後的一封 信
﹣ 後現代風月寶鋻：情的見證 ﹣讀李歐梵《范柳原懺情錄》

 

張愛玲筆下一個離婚女子跟富家子的愛情故事。故事中男女主角范柳原及白流蘇曾經歷過戰爭，一場生死患難與共的戀情。

A divorcee in Shanghai falls in love with a wealthy playboy in the 1940's. The war brings them both to Hong Kong where they reunite at the Repulse Bay Hotel.

 

 

 

Speaker:

Professor Leo Lee 李歐梵教授
Language: Putonghua / English
Date: Wednesday, 6 March 2002
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Main Library

 

About the Speaker

Leo Lee is professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. This year he is Visiting distinguished Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, HKU. His areas of teaching and research include modern Chinese intellectual history, literature, and film. An active public critic in Hong Kong and Taiwan, he writes a weekly cultural column for Yazhou zhoukan (Asiaweek, Chinese edition) and contributes articles frequently to the local newspapers in Hong Kong. He has published about a dozen volumes of essays in Chinese as well as two novels in Chinese, Confessions of a Profligate, Fan Liuyuan(范 柳原懺情錄) Hunter from the East (東方獵手) a spy-thriller. His many scholarly books in English including: The Romantic generation of Modern Chinese Writers (Harvard University Press), Voices from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun (Indiana University Press) and Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 (Harvard University Press).