要戰爭，不要戰爭 Make War Not War

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

揚‧米歇爾‧埃斯比達列，擅長各種樂器，不斷創新語言行為模式，挑戰語言的界限。他曾創辦《Java》雜誌，並在《文學》（littéraire）雜誌編輯「新法文詩歌」專號。曾出版數本書，包括非常具爭議性的《碎片：當代法文詩歌選》(2000)和《工具箱：當代法文詩歌全景》(2006)。他的詩集《埃斯比達列理論》出版於2003年，其英譯本出版於2005年；《屠夫夢幻》出版於2001年，其英譯本出版於2003年。埃斯比達列從事各種多媒體創作，包括聲音、視頻、音樂等。

Jean-Michel Espitallier works along constantly renewed modes of action to create new vocabularies and test the limits of language. He is the author of several books including the very controversial Pièces detaches: une anthologie de la poésie française aujourd’hui (2000) and Caisse à outils: un panorama de la poésie française aujourd’hui (2006). His Le Théorème d’Espitallier (2003) was translated into English by Guy Bennett (Espitallier’s Theorem, 2005) while Fantaisie bouchère (2001) was translated by Sherry Brennan (Butcher’s Fantasy, 2003).

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要戰爭，不要戰爭

Make war not war

 

justification 26

辯解

Justification

 

Menaces 35

威脅

Threat

 

De la guerre civile 48

內戰

On Civil War

要戰爭，不要戰爭（節錄）

（我是怎樣錯過了戰爭）

 

「我看到一雙曾經見過拿破崙皇帝的眼睛。」

──羅蘭‧巴特

膠片，線索，小故事

始終在場卻永遠缺席。

……勒內‧弗提耶的電影，巴黎東站，Heller的聖女貞德號戰艦，奧托迪‧克斯，第一次海灣戰爭時美軍轟炸的隆隆聲響徹法國上空，澤諾，迪耶美的一副油畫，畫上是1915年的英國海岸，探照燈下的兩艘齊泊林飛艇並肩飛行，鐵鍊的Solido坦克（AMX-13雙炮管坦克、虎式坦克、獵豹式坦克），電影《獵鹿人》，11月11日紀念戰爭犧牲者時，一片寂靜中響起的法國軍號，蒂米什瓦拉上了電視，敦克爾克大教堂和巴黎聖心殿的彈痕，無人之境尼古西亞的彈痕，《北方》，玩具軍車，讓‧穆蘭戴著圍巾和禮帽的頭像，赤棉大屠殺的早期罪證，拉特科‧姆拉迪奇上電視，塑膠模型士兵， 法國阿爾卑斯山地作戰部隊第11營，《莉莉‧馬蓮》，秘密軍隊組織的襲擊後一個女人在電臺裏的喊叫聲，電視上黎巴嫩戰爭的畫面，「1939年的戰爭，1939至1940年的戰爭，佔領時期，戰爭，1940年的戰爭，1939至1940年的戰爭，最後的戰爭」，《伊普諾斯的書頁》，越南的法國老兵，粗麻布的氣味，星期天和我的父母在羅什－拉克拉堡壘散步，刺刀戰壕，《50萬士兵的墳墓》，流線型的銅炮彈殼，我的袓母用它們來種花，三色旗，《納粹大屠殺》，電影《光榮之路》，運送牲畜的火車，日本片《虎虎虎》，克利斯蒂安‧波爾坦斯基，地對空排炮飛躍我在巴格達的旅店，我的歷史老師，達濠集中營的倖存者，給我們看他的條形囚服，老兵的壞馬克杯，路旁的沃邦軍事堡壘，我父親的FFI（法國內部抵抗力量）的三色臂章，巴黎《競賽畫報》上比亞法拉共和國的畫面，埃希曼受審判，兒時給我聽軍樂的鄰居，維爾科爾高地，「戰爭是政治的繼續，只是方式不同。」

 

Make war not war (extract)

(how I missed war)

 

"I see the eyes that have seen the Emperor."

Roland Barthes

 

Celluloid, clues, little stories.

Always there and always absent.

…the films of ReneVautier, the East Station, the Heller Jeanne d’Arc, Otto Dix, the ru mbling of American bombers flying over France during the first Gulf war, a painting by Zeno Diemer representing two zeppelins caught by spotlights on the English coast in 1915, the armored Solidos on metal tracks (AMX-13 Bi-Tubes, Tiger, Jagpanther), The Deer Hunter, the song "Aux morts" in the silence every November 11, Timisoara on television, the bullet holes in Dunkirk Cathedral, the bullet holes on Sacré-Coeur, the bullet holes in the Nicosia no-man’s-land, North, Dinky Toy military vehicles, the portrait of Jean Moulin in "official dress," the first eyewitnesses of the genocides by the Khmer Rouge, Ratko Mladic on television, Airfix soldiers, the 11^th BCA, Lily Marlene, the screams of a woman, on the radio, after an assassination attempt by the OAS, the Lebanese war on television, "the war of 39－the war of 39－40－the Occupation－the war－the war of 40－39－40－the last war," Leaves of Hypnos, the veterans of lndo, the smell of canvas uniforms, the Sunday walks to Fort Roche-Lacroix, the trenches of bayonets with my parents , Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers, the crazily dented copper cartridge casings my grandmother used as flower pots, the tricolor flag, shoah, Paths of Glory, the cattle cars, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Christian Boltanski, the anti-aerial battery on the roof of my hotel in Baghdad, my history teacher, deported to Dachau, who brought us his striped outfit, the broken mugs of vets, a Vauban Fort on the side of the road, my father’s FFI armband, the images of Biafra in Paris-Match, the Eichmann trial, my parent’s neighbor who made me listen to her military music, the Vercors Plateau, "war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means,"