“野兽国”国王：莫里斯•桑达克
来源：沪江英语
2012-05-11 11:01
Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” died Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., reportedly of complications from a stroke. He was 83.
莫里斯·桑达克，美国著名的作家以及儿童插画家，代表作为1963年出版的《野兽出没的地方》，于周二早晨因脑中风并发症逝世于美国康涅狄格州丹伯里，终年83岁。
In the late 1970s, when "Where the Wild Things Are" was only 15 years old (it is turning 50 soon), it was already, indisputably, a classic.
在70年代末，也就是《野兽出没的地方》出版15年的时候，这本书已经毫无疑问的成为了一本经典之作。
But not just a classic of children's books. It was a seminal book about childhood, and a journal of the life of an artist, and a clarion call for the satisfaction of those twin and opposite needs: independence and society.
它不只是儿童文学的经典之作。它是关于童年的一本开创性书籍，是一位艺术家生活的记录，是对两个相连有对立面：个体与社会的宣称。
In “Where the Wild Things Are,” Max is a hyperactive boy with an imaginary world inhabited by wild monsters.
在《野兽出没的地方》活跃的马克斯和他的一群野兽朋友一起住在他想象的世界里。
For more than 50 years, Sendak wrote and illustrated books focusing on kids’ fears, insecurities, and complexes. “Where the Wild Things Are,” first published in 1963, changed the image of kids in literature as well-scrubbed and well behaved.
在过去的50多年里，桑达克的作品主要描绘了孩子的恐惧感、不安全感和复杂的心理。《野兽出没的地方》于1963年一上市，就推翻了文学作品中孩子听话的形象。
He showed how the inner world of even the most frail is inhabited by wild things.
他给我们展示了即便是一个苦与疾病无休止困扰的虚弱孩子的内心世界里也住着一个野兽。
he cherished the letters that individual children sent him unbidden, which burst with the sparks that his work had ignited.
他很珍视孩子们自发写给他的信，信中满是他的作品所点亮的火花。
“Dear Mr. Sendak,” read one, from an 8-year-old boy. “How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive, my sister and I would like to spend the summer there.”
“亲爱的桑达克先生”，一个八岁的男孩写道：“要花多少钱才能去野兽出没的国度？要是不贵的话，我和我的妹妹想去那儿过暑假。
莫里斯·桑达克作品集
1.The Sign on Rosie’s Door
罗茜门上的标志
2.Nutshell Library
坚果图书馆
3.Higglety Pigglety Pop
乱七八糟，砰！
4.In the Night Kitchen
厨房之夜狂想曲
5.Outside Over There
在那遥远的地方
6.Where the Wild Things Are
野兽出没的地方
7.Bumble-Ardy
糊涂的阿尔蒂
8.My Brother’s Book
致我的哥哥
