《唐纳兄妹》内容简介

　　罗伯特·瓦尔泽“柏林三部曲”No.1：这是一本不用敌意的尖锐，只用胜利的微笑与我们身上所有的庸俗主义做斗争的书。

　　西蒙·唐纳，一个极具诗人气质的无业年轻人。我们用最为活跃的情感跟随他踏上一段多姿多彩的旅程。他的生活并不安稳，但轻松愉快。他成夜成夜地奔走在偏僻的乡间大道上。他时而成为售书员，时而当起仆人，时而又变身为写字员，然后他又变得无所事事，但他总能在任何情况中找到最让人舒适的方面。他是一个值得羡慕的人——阳光直射他内心之中；他是一个对一切事物都嗤之以鼻的人，一个真正意义上的无所事事之人——他知道如何穷尽全部的爱意编织如植物一般快乐的天性。

　　作者简介

　　“没有人有权在我面前表现出一副认识我的样子。”

　　罗伯特·瓦尔泽（Robert Walser，1878―1956）

　　“瓦尔泽于1878年4月15日出生于伯尔尼州的比尔，是八个孩子中的倒数第二个，上学上到十四岁，此后在银行当学徒，十七岁离家，住在巴塞尔的时候，在冯·史拜耳公司工作，在斯图加特的时候，他在德国出版联盟找到了一份差事。经历了斯图加特的一年后，他徒步经蒂宾根、赫辛根、沙夫豪森等地去苏黎世，在那儿干了一阵子保险，又干了一阵子银行的工作，在外希尔住过，也在苏黎世山上住过，还写诗，必须说明的是，他不是利用业余时间写作，为了写作，他总是先辞掉工作，因为他相信艺术是伟大的东西。”（引自瓦尔泽自撰生平）

　　1898年，在文学评论家约瑟夫·维克托·维德曼、作家弗朗茨·布莱等人的提携下，时年二十岁的瓦尔泽开始发表作品。

　　1903年夏天，他短暂受雇于苏黎世近郊维登斯维尔市一位工程师兼发明家的工作室，为其担任助手，这段经历成为他日后创作长篇小说《助手》的素材。

　　1904年出版首部作品《弗里茨·考赫的作文簿》。

　　1905年初，瓦尔泽前往德国柏林参加一个仆人培训班的培训，同年秋天起担任一位德国贵族的仆人达数月之久。这段经历日后被写入他的日记体长篇小说《雅各布·冯·贡滕》。

　　1906年，瓦尔泽再次前往柏林，在秘书文员工作之余开始小说创作，并在随后三年里相继出版长篇小说《唐纳兄妹》《助手》《雅各布·冯·贡滕》，三者合称“柏林三部曲”。

　　1913年，瓦尔泽徒步漫游回到故乡比尔。随后“一战”爆发，他被迫应征入伍，战后移居伯尔尼。

　　1916年，瓦尔泽首次将自己的新作和从未出版过的散文结集为《散文集》一书出版。

　　1917年，散文集《散步》出版。

　　1929年初，在经历了一段时间的幻觉和恐惧症折磨后，瓦尔泽听从心理医生建议，住进了伯尔尼的瓦尔道州立精神病院，期间继续写作。

　　1933年，在被误诊为精神分裂症后，瓦尔泽被家人强行送往比尔的赫利绍精神病院，终其一生再未离开。他也自此停止写作。

　　瓦尔泽一生酷爱独自散步。1956年圣诞节，他在一次例行雪地散步时突发心肌梗塞辞世，享年78岁。

　　有生之年，瓦尔泽共创作了七部长篇小说和上千篇的短篇故事、散文作品。除正式发表的作品外，他身后还留下了大量用铅笔书写、字迹小到几乎无法辨识的微型手稿。1985年至2000年间，其中部分手稿被研究者成功辨识并编为六卷本文集《来自铅笔领域》出版。

　　“在我周围总存在着这样的阴谋，它想把像我这样的害虫赶走，一切与自己世界不相称的东西都要被它优雅而高傲地清除出去。我从不敢硬挤入他们的世界，我甚至连瞄一眼的勇气都没有。所以我生活在市民生活的边缘，这有什么不好呢？”

　　译者简介：叶辉，罗伯特·瓦尔泽爱好者。

A brief introduction to the Donner Siblings

Robert Walser, "The Berlin Trilogy" No.1: This is a book that does not use hostile sharpness, but only a triumphant smile to fight all the vulgarism in us.

Simon Donner, an unemployed young man with the temperament of a poet. We follow him on a colorful journey with the most active emotions. His life was not secure, but it was easy and pleasant. He ran night after night on the lonely country road. Now he became a bookseller, now a servant, now a scribe, then he became idle again, but he always found the most comfortable aspect of any situation. He was a man to be envied -- the sun shone in his heart; He was a man who turned his nose up at everything, an idle man in the true sense of the word - he knew how to use all his love to weave a happy nature like a plant.

About the author

"No one has the right to act like they know me in front of me."

Robert Walser (1878-1956)

Walser was born in Biel, Canton Bern, on April 15, 1878, the penultimate of eight children, attended school until the age of fourteen, after which he apprenticed in a bank, left home at seventeen, and while living in Basel he worked for the von Spbayer Company, and while in Stuttgart he found a job with the German Publishing Union. After a year in Stuttgart, he walked to Zurich by way of Tubingen, Hesingen, Schaffhausen, and so on, where he worked for a while in insurance, worked for a while in banking, lived in Waithill and on the Zurich Hill, and wrote poetry, which, it must be said, he did not write in his spare time, for which he always quit his job. Because he believed that art was something great." (From Walser's own biography)

In 1898, under the patronage of literary critic Joseph Victor Wiedemann, writer Franz Blay and others, Walser began to publish at the age of twenty.

In the summer of 1903, he was briefly employed as an assistant in the workshop of an engineer and inventor in Wiedensville, near Zurich, an experience that would later become the subject of his novel The Assistant.

In 1904, he published his first book, Fritz Cauch's Composition Book.

In early 1905, Walser went to Berlin, Germany, to attend a servant's training class, and in the autumn of that year he worked as a servant of a German nobleman for several months. This experience was later recounted in his diary novel Jacob von Gunten.

In 1906, Walser returned to Berlin, where he began writing novels while working as a clerk, and over the next three years published novels such as The Donner Brothers, The Assistant, and Jacob von Gunten, collectively known as the Berlin Trilogy.

In 1913, Walser walked back to his hometown of Biel. When World War I broke out, he was forced to enlist in the army and moved to Bern after the war.

In 1916, Walser first published a collection of his new and unpublished essays as Essays.

In 1917, a collection of essays entitled Strolls was published.

In early 1929, after a period of hallucinations and phobias, Walser was admitted to the Waldau State psychiatric Hospital in Bern on the advice of his psychiatrist, where he continued to write.

In 1933, after being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, Walser was forcibly sent by his family to the Herissau mental Hospital in Biel, from which he never left. He has since stopped writing.

Walser loved walking alone all his life. On Christmas Day 1956, he died of a heart attack at the age of 78 while on a routine snow walk.

During his lifetime, Walser wrote seven novels and thousands of short stories and essays. In addition to his officially published works, he left behind a large number of miniature manuscripts, written in pencil and so small that they are almost unrecognizable. Between 1985 and 2000, some of these manuscripts were successfully identified by researchers and published in a six-volume anthology from the Pencil Field.

"There is always this conspiracy around me to drive away pests like me, to remove with grace and pride everything that does not fit into its world. I never dared to force my way into their world, I didn't even have the courage to look at it. So I live on the fringes of civic life, and what's wrong with that?"

Ye Hui, a fan of Robert Walzer.