The Surrender of Silence: A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians
暫譯: 沉默的投降：鐵腳傑克，波希米亞之王的回憶錄
Jack, Ironfoot, Stanley, Colin
- 出版商: Strange Attractor Press
- 出版日期: 2018-09-25
- 售價: $840
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $798
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 272
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 1907222650
- ISBN-13: 9781907222658
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商品描述
The life of escape artist, fortune-teller, author and raconteur "Ironfoot Jack," aka Jack Rudolph Neave (1881-1959), the self-styled "King of the Bohemians" in London's Soho.
"I became acquainted with gipsies, with show people, with buskers, with people who entertained the public by performing in the city, on fair grounds and market places...and with a variety of "fiddles"--that is, some dubious methods of obtaining the means of life. I became a member of this fraternity."
--from The Surrender of Silence
Escape artist, fortune-teller, author, and raconteur "Ironfoot Jack," aka Jack Rudolph Neave (1881-1959), the self-styled "King of the Bohemians," was a well-known Soho character in pre- and postwar London. His rich and enthralling story of a lifestyle now gone forever was dictated as his portrait was being painted by the artist Timothy Whidborne in 1956. It was then entrusted to a Soho acquaintance, the author Colin Wilson whose first book The Outsider, had been a success in the same year. Despite his efforts, Wilson failed to find a publisher and, after his death, the manuscript was discovered among his papers by his bibliographer Colin Stanley, who assembled the text, which is accompanied by a contextual introduction by cultural historian Phil Baker.
Jack wrote that The Surrender of Silence was "the outcome of years of struggle to survive; of solving the problem of existence by various and curious methods... Most of the people I am talking about led a precarious life and obtained their livelihood from day to day.... They worked to live; they did not live to work."
This Strange Attractor Press edition is the first publication of this legendary work.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
逃脫藝術家、算命師、作家及故事講述者「鐵腳傑克」（Ironfoot Jack），本名傑克·魯道夫·尼夫（Jack Rudolph Neave，1881-1959），自稱倫敦蘇豪區的「波希米亞之王」。
「我結識了吉普賽人、表演者、街頭藝人，以及在城市、集市和市集上表演以娛樂公眾的人……還有各種各樣的『小把戲』——也就是一些可疑的謀生方法。我成為了這個兄弟會的一員。」
——摘自《沉默的投降》（The Surrender of Silence）
逃脫藝術家、算命師、作家及故事講述者「鐵腳傑克」（Ironfoot Jack），本名傑克·魯道夫·尼夫（Jack Rudolph Neave，1881-1959），自稱「波希米亞之王」，是戰前和戰後倫敦蘇豪區的一個知名人物。他那段如今已經永遠消逝的生活方式的豐富而迷人的故事，是在1956年由藝術家提摩西·惠德伯恩（Timothy Whidborne）為他畫肖像時口述的。隨後，這段故事被託付給了蘇豪的一位熟人，作家科林·威爾遜（Colin Wilson），他的第一本書《局外人》（The Outsider）在同年取得了成功。儘管威爾遜努力尋找出版商，但最終未能如願，並在他去世後，手稿被他的書目學家科林·史丹利（Colin Stanley）在他的文件中發現，史丹利整理了這段文字，並由文化歷史學家菲爾·貝克（Phil Baker）撰寫了背景介紹。
傑克寫道，《沉默的投降》（The Surrender of Silence）是「多年掙扎求生的結果；用各種奇特的方法解決生存問題……我所談論的大多數人過著不穩定的生活，日復一日地謀生……他們工作是為了生活；而不是為了工作而生活。」
這本《奇異吸引者出版社》（Strange Attractor Press）版本是這部傳奇作品的首次出版。
作者簡介
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
科林·史丹利（Colin Stanley）是《科林·威爾遜研究》（Colin Wilson Studies）的作者及編輯。菲爾·貝克（Phil Baker）的其他著作包括《達達魯斯的苦艾酒書》（The Dedalus Book of Absinthe）、丹尼斯·惠特利（Dennis Wheatley）的傳記《魔鬼是紳士》（The Devil is a Gentleman），以及對塞繆爾·貝克特（Samuel Beckett）和威廉·巴洛斯（William Burroughs）的批評作品。他目前居住在倫敦。
