一位愛爾蘭女作家Elizabeth Bowen

今天知道了一位愛爾蘭女作家Elizabeth Bowen。

　　本來是在網上搜索Graham Greene 的一本小冊子《Why Do I Write ?》 ，這書是格林與兩位名家 Elizabeth Bowen 和 V. S. Pritchett 談寫作的對話錄，1948年初版。我想應該會很有趣，想運氣好可能在網上搜得到，後來發現作者署名為Elizabeth Bowen，全名叫《Why Do I Write?: An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett 》(1948)

　　興趣便隨之轉移到這位女作家身上。在了解完她的生平和作品之後，網上這一段話讓我對她產生了興趣：

　　Bowen was greatly interested in "life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off", in the innocence of orderly life, and in the eventual, irrepressible forces that transform experience. Bowen also examined the betrayal and secrets that lie beneath the veneer of respectability. The style of her works is highly wrought and owes much to literary modernism. She was an admirer of film and influenced by the filmmaking techniques of her day. The locations in which Bowen's works are set often bear heavily on the psychology of the characters and on the plots. 

　　She was also a notable writer of ghost stories, with a number of them to her credit.

　　看來，這是個有趣的人。人的一生不長，應多和有趣的人交往，交往不成，多了解也是好的。於是，在網上找到了她的一些作品。想看的書太多，什麽也不幹都看不過來。