Jane Austen；杜拉克回憶錄旁觀者； Emma (Jane Austen )

Contemporary scholars have reappraised “dear Aunt Jane” as an independent and worldly-wise woman who wielded a sardonic pen. She was no prude, but she had high standards and a mortal fear of childbirth. The author died on July 18th 1817

Why Jane Austen continues to fascinate, nearly 200 years after her death

Austen died on this day in 1817

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2016.7.19 補一段 (本年度，杜拉克回憶錄【旁觀者】新 (更新)版，已由天下文化出版。_

Emma 的中譯本，我手頭上有三本。底下的引言，2本中國的，都採用"第2卷第9章"方式。台灣的遊目族出版社( 2007)，張瑞麟先生的譯本，則是第26章---有點奇怪，因為第1卷18章，加9，應該是第27章。 (我記錯，應該是加8。)

Oxford World's Classics 新增了 2 張相片。

'Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.' - Emma

Jane Austen died on this day in 1817 in Winchester, England.

Today marks the 199th anniversary of the death of English novelistJane Austen, who died at the relatively young age of 41 after publishing four novels. (Her final two, NORTHANGER ABBEY and PERSUASION, were published posthumously.) Austen was little-known during her lifetime, and it was only decades after her death that critics began to give her the respect she still commands today.

----2007

2005年hc的舊作有Peter Drucker舉 Emma--所以可以送台北的 Jane Austen Lab 存檔......

佳譯」簡述：《旁觀者：杜拉克回憶錄》為例
昨夜，很奇特的因緣下，對照讀《旁觀者：杜拉克回憶錄》

（Adventures of a Bystander by Peter Ferdinand Drucker ，1993重新發行；廖月娟譯，台北：Mc-Graw Hill與聯經出版社， 1996）之「新版序」。

這本Adventures of a Bystander，我八零年代中（約1985）在台北的USIS借閱過。1996中文本出版（一大票人參與此「出版之食物鍊」，所以廖月娟女士的「譯後語」的內容是長串的「特別致謝」。）

如果你像我一樣，對照讀過「新版序」，而採取求全的要求，不免會懷疑為什麼這麼多人看過、指導過此書譯本，還是遺漏幾十字（整體句子沒大礙，不過有些地方三個形容詞只翻譯一處），有些簡單的句子的意思走調，眾人皆曰可（譬如說， 第25頁說，本書取財多依其身為教師和顧問之經驗（they draw heavily on my work with people as a teacher, as a consultant），誤會為「不少人利用我的作品，將之視為導師或是顧問。」）--2007補: 其實大多數人可能都沒看原文而"想當然地亂改".....

我的「佳譯」標準大体是：忠實（最好「一字不漏」）無誤（或「缺點密度」極小），無章通順、最好有點文采。目錄章名等不要扭曲（《旁觀者：杜拉克回憶錄》的，其實作過不當的處理…..），最好有中英對照之索引。

作者被譽為管理大師，其實是位實際的「社會圖像」之關察家，他知道讀者雅好人物和故事，所以他想仿大作家的活生生之人物（譬如說，J. Austen的 Emma，他這樣說：

They are to be found on every suburban street. Not one of them would behave much differently today. And yet, individually and collectively they conveyed--as could neither historian nor statistician-（這字原書可能有誤？這史家與統計師，中文本未譯）--the reality, the feel, the meaning of early nineteen century England and its so very different 'quality of life'..）

一句話，《旁觀者：杜拉克回憶錄》是有點缺陷之「佳譯」。用張瑞鱗先生教的字 a translation manque，為「志未酬」的「完美譯作之夢想」。一般人讀它，受益。好事者可在諸如google print對照讀它、思考，一定也或學到許多，譬如說，我的練習是末章The Indian Summer of Innocence，廖翻譯成「無私天真的夕陽歲月」，不知多好或可改進。