For this special issue on “New Generation Women's Fiction from Taiwan,” we have specially invited Professor Lee Kuei Yun of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at Taiwan's Tsing Hua University to be guest editor and take responsibility for the selections. Because of space limitations it has been possible only to select twelve short stories by eleven woman writers. These writers were all born in the 1970s or later and their works were published in the year 2000 or later. Thus, they represent a period of social change in twenty-first century Taiwan and the spirit of the new generation. The introduction that we asked Professor Lee to provide is entitled “Trauma, esire, Contemporary Women's Voices.” Aside from giving a brief account of the eleven writers and their works, Professor Lee sketches “a number of writerly qualities that become perceptible… [that] represent the internal trauma, female consciousness, physical lust, cat-uman metaphors, and everyday life, etc.” In her introdu
梵谷的畫生前沒人看得起，死後沒人買得起。梵谷的藝術，高度上傳宗教，廣度遍及人性，深度則逕探生命的焦點。他對我們的震撼，正在神人相接的焦點。梵谷一生有兩大狂熱：早年想做牧師，把使徒的福音傳給勞苦的大眾，卻慘遭失敗；後來想做畫家，把具有宗教情操的生之體驗傳給觀眾。他說：「無論生活上或繪畫上，我都可以完全不靠上帝，可是我雖然病著，卻不能沒有一樣比我更大的東西，就是我的生命，我的創造力……在一幅畫中我想說一些像音樂一樣令人安慰的東西，在畫男人和女人的時候，我要他們帶一點永恆感，這種感覺以前是用光輪象徵，現在我們卻用著色時真正的光輝和顫動來把握。」「光輝和顫動」（radiance and vibration）正是梵谷畫中呼之欲出的特質。本書入選好書大家讀推薦、中小學優良課外讀物、北市圖各級學校推薦書單余光中：譯書時隨梵谷的心情起伏，彷彿神靈附身，譯到梵谷死而譯者重生。蔣勳 (名作家、畫家，美學教育推廣者)：大概還記得，中學時代，讀到余光中先生譯的《梵谷傳》，心中激盪的情緒。那時沒有看到梵谷的原作，複製的畫作也多是黑白，印刷模糊，但還是很震撼。讀到史東寫到：梵谷在煤礦區為工人布道，在礦災慘劇之後，梵谷回到家，把自己僅有的衣物一份一份分好，全部捨給最需要的受難者，我仍那麼清晰記得，十幾歲的年齡，竟然掩卷無以卒讀，熱淚盈眶的記憶。那是梵谷，是余光中先生典雅譯筆下的梵谷，是史東傳奇小說筆下的梵谷。──摘自《破解梵谷》黃春明(知名小說家)：民國四十七年我在屏東師範讀書，當時一位劉天霖老師送我這本《梵谷傳》，並送我這句話：「你的才能像一座礦，而礦是需要開採的，梵谷是你的好榜樣。」我的人生讓我體驗到做事要靠一股「傻勁」。推薦這本對我影響深遠的書，尤其希望青少年多多讀傳記。
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