内容简介

　　作者以面对面采访的方式或借助翔实的二手资料，向我们展示了16位文学巨匠的创作历程。这里既有某些被缪斯眷顾的神启时刻，也有文学创作最艰难的时刻；既有作家头脑中的文学理念，也有他们独特的创作习惯和创作技巧。文字平实、亲切。

　　--

　　灵感与写作是文学创作的两副面孔。本书以此二者为线索，力求展现20世纪和21世纪的16位西葡语文学巨匠的文学创作过程。

　　对于每位作家而言，灵感与写作的表现形式都不同。作者通过与作家或作家的家人、密友面对面的访谈，深入研究作家的作品、演讲稿、采访稿等文字材料，生动地呈现了这些伟大作家的创作日常和文学理念。

　　本书展现了缪斯女神“幸临”作家的特殊时刻：拉斐尔•阿尔贝蒂流亡巴黎期间的一个孤独又悲伤的夜晚，在广播电台的工作间里写出了他最动人的情诗之一《鸽子》；某日，若泽•萨拉马戈在里斯本的一家餐厅里等待上菜的时候，突然，就如同被灵感之箭射中一般，他的脑海中浮现出了《失明症漫记》的故事情节；博尔赫斯每天早晨都会在家中泡澡，他会在泡澡时思索并决定是否将前一晚的梦境写成一则故事或一首诗；卡洛斯•富恩特斯曾在写作时突然感觉到已故儿子的力量出现在自己体内；科塔萨尔在写《跳房子》时几乎完全被笔下的人物牵着走，丝毫察觉不到时间的流逝；巴勃罗•聂鲁达是在醉心于星空时写下《热情的投掷者》中的第一首诗的，因为他受到了“天空的撞击”……

　　作者简介

　　劳尔•克莱马德斯（Raúl Cremades），马拉加大学教育学博士，纽约大学西班牙语文学硕士，现任教于马拉加大学，教授文学及语言类课程，兼任阿隆索•吉哈诺基金会负责人，曾获2015年国家推动阅读贡献奖。曾出版塞尔万多•马约尔的传记《无日无时》（1997）和卡门•马丁•盖特的传记《笔记本女士》（2011）。

　　安赫尔•埃斯特万（Ángel Esteban），西班牙格拉纳达大学西班牙语美洲文学专业教授、拉丁美洲研究硕士项目负责人。特拉华大学访问学者（自2003年起）、蒙特克莱尔州立大学访问学者（自2009年起）。已出版文学相关著作50余部，其中包括《文学的现代性：从贝克尔到马蒂》（1992）、《阿莱霍•卡彭铁尔：光明中的一个世纪》（2005）、《加博与菲德尔：一段友情》（2004）、《沉浸在老人与海洋之中的古巴文学》（2006）、《从马尔克斯到略萨：回溯“文学爆炸”》（中文版已于2021年由生活•读书•新知三联书店出版）、《马德里的古巴人》（2011）、《古巴历史小说》（2014）等。

　　--

　　张琼，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语系讲师、拉丁美洲研究中心成员，另译有《书店漫游》（合译）、《迷人的西班牙语史》（待出）等书。

　　侯健，博士，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语系副教授、硕士生导师、拉丁美洲研究中心负责人，另译有《从马尔克斯到略萨：回溯“文学爆炸”》《两种孤独》《普林斯顿文学课》《科幻精神》《五个街角》《艰辛时刻》《萨拉米斯的士兵》等书。

Content introduction

The author shows us the creative process of 16 literary masters in the form of face-to-face interviews or with the help of detailed secondary materials. There are some moments of inspiration, blessed by the Muse, and some of literature's most difficult; There are not only literary ideas in the minds of writers, but also their unique creative habits and creative skills. The writing is plain and cordial.

--

Inspiration and writing are the two faces of literary creation. Using these two as clues, this book strives to show the literary creation process of 16 giants of Spanish and Portuguese literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.

For every writer, inspiration and writing take different forms. Through face-to-face interviews with writers, their family members and close friends, the author delves into their works, speeches, interview scripts and other written materials, vividly presenting the creative routine and literary ideas of these great writers.

The book presents a special moment for the writer of the Muse's arrival: Rafael Alberti wrote one of his most moving love poems, "Dove", in his radio studio on a lonely and sad night in exile in Paris; Jose Saramago was waiting for his food to arrive in a Lisbon restaurant one day when, as if hit by an arrow of inspiration, the story line of "The Blind Man" popped into his head; Borges would take a bath at home every morning, and while he was taking a bath, he would think and decide whether to write a story or a poem about the dream he had had the night before. Carlos Fuentes was writing when he suddenly felt the power of his late son emerge within him; Cortasar wrote Hopscotch almost entirely guided by his characters, oblivious to the passage of time; Pablo Neruda wrote the first poem in "The Passionate Thrower" while admiring the stars, because he was "struck by the sky"...

About the author

Raul Cremades has a Ph.D. in education from the University of Malaga and a Master of Arts in Spanish from New York University. He teaches literature and languages at the University of Malaga and is also the director of the Alonso Quijano Foundation. He received the 2015 National Award for Contribution to the Promotion of Reading. He is the author of Servando Mayor's biography No Day No Time (1997) and Carmen Martin Gatt's biography The Notebook Lady (2011).

Angel Esteban is professor of Spanish-American Literature and director of the Master's Program in Latin American Studies at the University of Granada in Spain. Visiting Scholar at the University of Delaware (since 2003) and Montclair State University (since 2009). He has published more than 50 books on literature, including Literary Modernity: From Becker to Marti (1992), Alejo Carpentier: A Century in the Light (2005), and Gabo and Fidel: A Century of Light (2005). A Friendship (2004), Cuban Literature Immersed in the Old Man and the Ocean (2006), From Marquez to Llosa: Reliving the "Literary Explosion" (published in Chinese by Life, Reading and New Knowledge in 2021), Cubans in Madrid (2011), Cuban Historical Fiction (2014), etc.

--

Qiong Zhang is a lecturer in the Department of Spanish Studies at the School of European Studies, Xi 'an International Studies University, and a member of the Center for Latin American Studies. She is the author of books such as Bookstore Tour (co-translated) and The Fascinating History of Spanish (to be published).

Hou Jian, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish Department, School of European Studies, Xi 'an International Studies University, Master tutor, head of the Center for Latin American Studies, also translated from Marquez to Llosa: Back to the "Literary Explosion", "Two Kinds of loneliness", "Princeton Literature Class", "The Spirit of Science Fiction", "Five Street Corners", "Hard Time", "Soldiers of Salamis" and other books.