生活的藝術(shù)

前言

One morning in 19o5, or the 3tth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu ofQing Dynasty, two brothers set out by boat from their hometown Boa-ah, amountain hamlet in Fujian Province on the southern coast of China, for theport city of Xiamen, some sixty miles away. The boys were full of excitementand chatter, especially the younger one. Yutang was ten years old, and today, hewas taking leave of his hometown and going with his brother to study in Xiamen.They were sons of Pastor Lin Zhicheng, who was born in the poor village ofWulisha. Pastor Lin was sending his sons to free missionary schools in Xiamen.The Pastor was not a follower of convention, so the boys did not wearqueues. Yutang was a little guy, deeply tanned, with a prominent forehead, apair of sparkling eyes, and a narrow chin. Six miles later, when the skiff cameto Xiaoxi, the boys changed to a five-sail junk, and sailed toward Zhangzhouon West River. There were paddy fields and farmhouses on either side ofthe river, and tall mountains stood behind them, clad in grey-purplishhues. Yutang thought it inexpressibly beautiful. After a day's journey, the junkwas tied up against the bank under some bamboo trees. Yutang was told to liedown, cover himself with a blanket and go to sleep.But sleep was the last thing on the boy's mind. The boatman sitting at the junk's stern was sucking at his pipe, and between gulps of bitter tea, telling stories about the Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled the court today, having put the Emperor Guangxu under house arrest for supporting the reformers at the palace. Another junk was tied up on the opposite bank, brightly lit by lanterns. A soft breeze wafted sounds of merrymaking and music from a lute across the water. Oh, what a beautiful scene！

內(nèi)容概要

《生活的藝術(shù)》一書中，作者林語堂談了莊子的淡泊，贊了陶淵明的閑適，誦了《歸去來兮辭》，講了《圣經(jīng)》的故事，以及中國人如何品茗，如何行酒令，如何觀山，如何玩水，如何看云，如何鑒石，如何養(yǎng)花、蓄鳥、賞雪、聽雨、吟風(fēng)、弄月……林語堂將中國人曠懷達觀，陶情遣興的生活方式，和浪漫高雅的東方情調(diào)皆訴諸筆下，向西方人娓娓道出了一個可供仿效的“完美生活的范本，快意人生的典型”，展現(xiàn)出詩樣人生、才情人生、幽默人生、智慧人生的別樣風(fēng)情。

作者簡介

林語堂，1895年10月10日生于福建漳州，乳名和樂，名玉堂，后改語堂。22歲獲上海圣約翰大學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位，27歲獲美國哈佛大學(xué)比較文學(xué)碩士學(xué)位，29歲獲德國萊比錫大學(xué)語言學(xué)博士學(xué)位，同年回國，先后執(zhí)教于北京大學(xué)。北京師范大學(xué)，廈門大學(xué)和上海東吳大學(xué)，1936年后居住美國，此后主要用英文寫作，1966年定居臺灣，1967年受聘為香港中文大學(xué)研究教授。1975年榮任國際筆會副會長。1976年3月26日病逝于香港。葬于臺北陽明山故居。林語堂用英文創(chuàng)作和翻譯的一系列經(jīng)典作品影響深遠，奠定了他在國際文壇上的重要地位。代表作有小說《京華煙云》、《啼笑皆非》，散文雜文《吾國與吾民》、《生活的藝術(shù)》、傳記《蘇東坡傳》、《武則天傳》，譯著《老子的智慧》、《浮生六記》等。

書籍目錄

FORWARD
PREFACE
Chapter One THE AWAKENING
　I.APPROACH TO LIFE
　II.A PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC FORMULA
　III.THE SCAMP AS IDEAL
Chapter Two VIEWS OF MANKIND
　I.CHRISTIAN, GREEK AND CHINESE
　II.EARTH-BOUND
　III.A BIOLOGICAL VIEW
　IV.HUMAN LIFE A POEM
Chapter Three OUR ANIMAL HERITAGE
　I.THE MONKEY EPIC
　II.IN THE IMAGE OF THE MONKEY
　III.ON BEING MORTAL
　IV.ON HAVING A STOMACH
　V.ON HAVING STRONG MUSCLES
　VI.ON HAVING A MIND
Chapter Four ON BEING HUMAN
　I.ON HUMAN DIGNITY
　II.ON PLAYFUL CURIOSITY: THE RISE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION
　III.ON DREAMS
　IV.ON THE SENSE OF HUMOUR
　V.ON BEING WAYWARD AND INCALCULABLE
　VI.THE DOCTRINE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Chapter Five WHO CAN BEST ENJOY LIFE？
　I.FIND THYSELF: CHUANGTSE
　II.PASSION, WISDOM AND COURAGE: MENCIUS
　III.CYNICISM, FOLLY AND CAMOUFLAGE: LAOTSE
　IV."PHILOSOPHY OF HALF-AND-HALF": TSESSE
　V.A LOVER OF LIFE: T'AO YUANMING
Chapter Six THE FEAST OF LIFE
　I.THE PROBLEM OF HAPPINESS
　II.HUMAN HAPPINESS IS SENSUOUS
　III.CHIN'S THIRTY-THREE HAPPY MOMENTS
　IV.MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF MATERIALISM
　V.HOW ABOUT MENTAL PLEASURES?
Chapter Seven THE IMPORTANCE OF LOAFING
　I.MAN THE ONLY WORKING ANIMAL
　II.THE CHINESE THEORY OF LEISURE
　III.THE CULT OF THE IDLE LIFE
　IV.THIS EARTH THE ONLY HEAVEN
　V.WHAT IS LUCK?
　VI THREE AMERICAN VICES
Chapter Eight THE ENJOYMENT OF THE HOME
　I ON GETTING BIOLOGICAL
　II.CELIBACY A FREAK OF CIVILIZATION
　III.ON SEX APPEAL
　IV.THE CHINESE FAMILY IDEAL
　V.ON GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY
Chapter Nine THE ENJOYMENT OF LMNG
　I.ON LYING IN BED
　II.ON SITTING IN CHAIRS
　IIl.ON CONVERSATION o
　IV.ON TEA AND FRIENDSHIP
　V.ON SMOKE AND INCENSE
　VI.ON DRINK AND WINE GAMES
　VII.ON FOOD AND MEDICINE
　VIII.SOME CURIOUS WESTERN CUSTOMS
　IX.THE INHUMANITY OF WESTERN DRESS
　X.ON HOUSE AND iNTERIORS
Chapter Ten THE ENJOYMENT OF NATURE
　I.PARADISE LOST?
　II.ON BIGNESS
　III.TWO CHINESE LADIES
　IV.ON ROCKS AND TREES
　V.ON FLOWERS AND FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS
　VI.THE "VASE FLOWERS" OF YUAN CHUNGLANG
　VII.THE EPIGRAMS OF CHANG CH'AO
Chapter Eleven THE ENJOYMENT OF TRAVEL
　I.ON GOING ABOUT AND SEEING THINGS
　II."THE TRAVELS OF MINGLIAOTSE"
Chapter Twelve THE ENJOYMENT OF CULTURE
　I.GOOD TASTE IN KNOWLEDGE
　II.ART AS PLAY AND PERSONALITY
　III.THE ART OF READING
　IV.THE ART OF WRITING
Chapter Thirteen RELATIONSHIP TO GOD
　I.THE RESTORATION OF RELIGION
　II.WHY I AMA PAGAN
Chapter Fourteen THE ART OF THINKING
　I.TIlE NEED OF HUMANIZED THINKING
　II.THE RETURN TO COMMON SENSE
　III.BE REASONABLE
CERTAIN CHINESE NAMES
A CHINESE CRITICAL VOCABULARY
WADE-GILES TO PINY1N CONVERSION TABLE
WORKS IN ENGLISH BY LIN YUTANG

章節(jié)摘錄

An excellent illustration of a perfectly sound mind is provided by theEnglish. The English have got bad logic, but very good tentacles in theirbrains for sensing danger and preserving life. I have not been able to discoveranything logical in their national behaviour or their rational history. Theiruniversities, their constitution, their Anglican Church are all pieces ofpatchwork, being the steady accretions of a process of historical growth. Thevery strength of the British Empire consists in the English lack of cerebration,in their total inability to see the other man's point of view, and in their strongconviction that the English way is the only right way and English food is theonly good food. The moment Englishmen learn to reason and lose their strongconfidence in themselves, the British Empire will collapse. For no one cango about conquering the world if he has doubts about himself. You can make absolutely nothing out of the English attitude toward their king, their loyalty to, and their quite genuine affection for, a king who is deprived by them of the liberty of speech and is summarily told to behave or quit the throne.... When Elizabethan England needed pirates to protect the Empire, she was able to produce enough pirates to meet the situation and glorified them. In every period, England was able to fight the tight war, against the right enemy, with the right ally, on the right side, at the right time, and call it by a wrong name. They didn't do it by logic, did they？ They did it by their tentacles.

媒體關(guān)注與評論

讀林先生的書使人得到很大啟發(fā)。我非常感激他，因為他的書使我大開眼界。只有一位優(yōu)秀的中國人才能這樣坦誠、信實而又毫不偏頗地論述他的同胞?！都~約時報》星期日書評

編輯推薦

《林語堂英文作品集:生活的藝術(shù)》是林語堂旅美專事創(chuàng)作后的第一部書，也是繼《吾國與吾民》之后再次獲成功的又一英文作品?！读终Z堂英文作品集:生活的藝術(shù)(月亮石)》于1937年在美國出版，次年便居美國暢銷書排行榜榜首達52周，且接連再版四十余次，并為十余種文字所翻譯。林語堂在該書中將曠懷達觀，陶情遣興的中國人的生活方式，和浪漫高雅的東方情調(diào)予以充分的傳達，向西方人娓娓道出了一個可供效仿的“生活最高典型”的模式，以致有書評家（Peter Precott）稱：“讀完這書后，我真想跑到唐人街，一遇見中國人，便向他行個鞠躬禮?！薄读终Z堂英文作品集》是林語堂用英文創(chuàng)作的一系列作品，曾經(jīng)轟動歐美文壇，影響深遠，一直被視為闡述東方文化的權(quán)威著作。此外。本套圖書獨家原版引進，眾多著作以英文原貌首次登陸國內(nèi)；數(shù)十幅珍貴老照片真實回味過去的時光。重磅上市，值得珍藏！

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雖然他講的是數(shù)十年前中國的精彩，但他的話，即使在今天，對我們每一個美國人都很受用。——美國總統(tǒng)布什

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