2019年5月20日 星期一

"Goethe in Hollywood" ;魔山 The Magic Mountain ;The Architecture of Memory: Los Angeles / City of Crystal: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles, 1990/2006


在美國加州最大城市洛杉磯,好萊塢眾星雲集、豪宅林立,但卻也有將近5萬8千人無家可歸,人數高居全美第二,僅次於紐約。其中三分之一,是付不出房租,只能以車為家的車居族。洛杉磯政府在去年修法,開放停車場讓這些人過夜,充當臨時居所。
 

『魔の山』
空から見たダボスの町。この小説の舞台になった場所

Thomas Mann - 2018 - ‎Fiction
I am sure I wrote that to Professor Hermann Weigand of Yale University when he sent me his bookon The Magic Mountain, the most fundamental and ...
The magic mountain, a study of Thomas Mann's novel, Der Zauberberg by Herman John Weigand( Book )

40 editions published between 1933 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 1,200 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 


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買到阿彭的魔山,1979初版,1988,6版。800多頁,定價300元。他翻譯時,還是我們的,後來,結婚生子.....
書初版時,阿擘拿一本,塗塗改改。他來台北參加阿彭的喪禮時,我追問那本書的下落......找不到了.....
去年講尼采悲劇的誕生時,提到美國某教授說,Thomas Mann的死在威尼斯的某段記夢,就是尼采說的悲劇之誕生。
我隨意翻魔山中記小孩時,在學校向某同學借鉛筆的夢,3頁,其實,那是Death in Venice 的另一版本。
之後,讀魔山成書記,pp.801-12,說兩書是"幽默姊妹篇" (p.804)
那一年,他剛花2~3年翻譯完浮士德博士,實在不忍心請他從德文再翻魔山......
他還是莫明其妙"突然"不告而別",留下我們在塵世,用Google查他沒翻譯的'' Be uns hier oben ... '' (p.804).....
老友,懷念你。



Thomas Mann—the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain—was among those who attended the salons at Villa Aurora, calling the house a "true castle by the sea."

Mann, perhaps the most famous of the German émigrés in Los Angeles, would later build his own castle perched atop the hills of Pacific Palisades.

Strongly opposed to Nazi policies, Mann left Germany in 1933. After several years of exile in Switzerland and a short teaching stint at Princeton, he and his wife Katia arrived in Los Angeles in 1940.

Many within the exilic community held conflicted feelings about Los Angeles; some detested the city's perceived cultural and urban shortcomings and were only too happy to return to Europe after the war. Mann, however, took U.S. citizenship and planned to make Los Angeles his permanent home.

In his 1996 book German-speaking Artists in Hollywood, Cornelius Schnauber quoted Mann, who often enjoyed strolling down Santa Monica's Palisades Park, on his reasons for settling in Los Angeles:

"The climate has great advantages," he wrote a friend, "as does the countryside, living expenses are relatively cheap, and, in particular, the opportunities for our young musician-children are promising." Later, Mann wrote to his son: "We were just at Princeton and it is very pretty. But I am a bit afraid of the scholarly atmosphere, and I basically prefer the movie rabble in Hollywood."

A 1942 New Yorker profile proclaimed Mann to be "Goethe in Hollywood" and, according to Mann's fellow exile Bertolt Brecht, the author thought of himself as a "latter-day Goethe in search of the land where the lemons grow" (quoted in City of Quartz by Mike Davis).

Mann's years in Southern California were productive. He composed some of his most significant works while in Los Angeles, including Doctor Faustus and The Holy Sinner. Eventually, the draw of Europe's old world traditions was too strong. In 1952, Mann returned to Switzerland, where he died in 1955.

Feuchtwanger and Mann were only two of the many intellectual and artistic titans to reside under the Southern California sunshine.








Guardian culture
From cool blue pools in LA to Yorkshire woodland to desert highways, a major Tate retrospective to mark David Hockney’s 80th birthday celebrates his vibrant vision



From cool blue pools in LA to Yorkshire woodland to desert highways, a major Tate retrospective to mark Hockney’s 80th birthday celebrates his vibrant vision
THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 OLIVIA LAING 上傳


Report Finds a Los Angeles in Decline

By ADAM NAGOURNEY

A commission presented a scathing verdict on the civic health of the city, saying it was falling behind other major cities across the globe.

Hardship Makes a New Home in the Suburbs

By JENNIFER MEDINA

The suburbs east of Los Angeles were once a magnet for restless newcomers with big aspirations, but jobs never really followed. Today, poverty is growing faster in suburban areas than in cities or rural areas.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"It's a shame and embarrassing that in a city of 4 million people we are down to one woman."
NURY MARTINEZ, the only woman in elected office in the city of Los Angeles.






Mike Davis《水晶之城:窺探洛杉磯的未來》City of Crystal: Excavating the Future of Los Angels,1990.林鶴譯,上海人民,2010
Google Books2006年新版City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New Edition)
The Exiles 一節實在很精彩的批評那些歐陸學者的窄試

 Los Angeles, for all its fleshpots and enchantments, was experienced as a cultural antithesis to nostalgic memories of Pre-facist Berlin or Vienna.



迈克•戴维斯(Mike Davis),1946年生,美国社会评论家、城市理论家、历史学家和政治活动家,加州大学河滨分校创意写作系教授。

译者 林鹤,1967年生,1985年就读清华大学建筑系,1993年获建筑历史与理论硕士学位并留校任教,2002年因病去职,著有《西方20世纪别墅二十讲》(三联书店2007年版),并有译作多部。

目录  · · · · · ·

致谢
前言 根据昔日的前景所做的展望 The View from Future Past
第一章 是阳光璀璨还是黑色笼罩?Sunshine or Noir?
第二章 权势脉络 Power Lines
第三章 本乡原产的革命Homegrown Revolution
第四章 洛杉矶要塞Fortress L.A.
第五章 “锤子”与“岩石” The Hammer and the Rock
第六章 全新的告解 New Confessions
第七章 堆放梦想碎片的垃圾场 Junkyard of Dreams
附录 报刊杂志译名对照
索引




City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New Edition) - Page 48 - Google Books Result

books.google.com.tw/books?isbn=1844675688
Mike Davis - 2006 - Political Science
70 In Los Angeles where Adorno and Horkheimer accumulated their 'data', the ... to become its own myth: Los Angeles as the crystal ball of capitalism's future.





City of Quartz

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City of Quartz:
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) History
Genre(s) Non-fiction
Publication date 1990
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful forces in its history. The book opens with Davis visiting the ruins of the socialist community of Llano, organized in 1914 in what is now the Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles. The community moved in 1918, leaving behind the "ghost" of an alternative future for LA.
Davis then explores intellectuals' competing ideas of Los Angeles, from the "sunshine" promoted by real estate boosters early in the 20th century, to the "debunkers," the muckraking journalists of the early century, to the "noir" writers of the 1930s and the exiles fleeing from fascism in Europe, and finally the "sorcerers," the scientists at Caltech.
The rest of the book explores how different groups wielded power in different ways: the downtown Protestant elite, led by the Chandler family of the Los Angeles Times, and the new elite of the Jewish westside; the surprisingly powerful homeowner groups, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Catholic Church. The book concludes at what Davis calls the "junkyard of dreams," the former steel town of Fontana, east of LA, a victim of de-industrialization and decay.
The 2nd edition of the book, published in 2006, contains a new preface detailing changes in Los Angeles since the work was written in the late 1980s.

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, criticized "City of Quartz" for its "dark generalization and knee-jerk far-leftism," but concluded that the book "is without question the most significant book on Los Angeles urbanism to appear since Reyner Banham's "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies" was published in 1971." He ranked it "one of the three most important treatments of that subject ever written, joining "Four Ecologies" and Carey McWilliams' 1946 book "Southern California: An Island on the Land."[1]
In the Boston Review, Mark Haefele called the book "a black hole of Southland noir," but also wrote, "What's brilliant about Davis's book is his perception of Los Angeles as incarceration, its new prisons a major industry. . . . He's right that a broad landscape of the city is turning itself into Postmodern Piranesi. And to young black males in particular, the city has become a prisoner factory."[2]
The San Francisco Examiner concluded that “Few books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future”, and Peter Ackroyd, writing in The Times of London, called the book “A history as fascinating as it is instructive.”[3]

Reviews

  • Blanchard, Marc. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 7, No. 4 (November, 1992).
  • Decker, Jeffrey Louis. American Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March, 1992)
  • Erie. Steven P. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 107., No. 1 (Spring, 1992).
  • Ford, Richard T. Transition, No. 57 (1992).
  • Horton, John. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 20, No. 6 (November, 1991).
  • Kirkham, Pat. Journal of Design History, Vol. 5., No. 2 (1992).
  • Knox, Paul. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 83, No. 1 (March 1993).
  • Williams, Rosalind. Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 4 (March, 1993).

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