SEEDS OF FICTION: GRAHAM GREENE’S ADVENTURES IN HAITI AND CENTRAL AMERICA 1954–1983
Book ID/图书代码： 10725012B58532
English Summary/英文概要： In 1965 Graham Greene made what he described as ‘a trip down the Dominican and Haitian border . . . in the company of two exiles from Haiti’. Bernard Diederich was one of those two exiles, and Seeds of Fiction includes a first-hand account of that trip, one that inspired one of Greene’s most significant works,The Comedians. Diederich, a seasoned correspondent for the British and North American press, had lived in Haiti for many years. In 1963 he had been thrown out by Papa Doc Duvalier, and, in exile in the neighbouring Dominican Republic, soon became a champion of the cause of the Haitian opposition.
Diederich and Greene had become friends in the mid-1950s when the celebrated author visited Haiti. When Greene met Diederich in Santo Domingo in 1965 he was sixty-one and depressed and plagued by religious doubt. Sensing that the volatile political situation in Haiti was something Greene could write about and so help to expose the Duvalier regime in all its brutality, Diederich suggested they tour the border region between the two countries, and together with an exiled Haitian priest, Fr Jean-Claude Bajeux – whose family had recently been ‘disappeared’ – they set off. Along the way they met a number of characters later fictional ized in Greene’s most politically charged novel, The Comedians, and Seeds of Fiction illuminates in detail this pivotal episode in Greene’s career and provides a fasci nating glimpse into the writer’s life from a very personal perspective.
Diederich arranged for Greene to visit Panama and to meet its leader Omar Torrijos, and a friendship quickly developed between the two men, with Greene making a number of trips to visit Torrijos and to get to know the region. This formed the background to Getting To Know the General, Greene’s seminal work on the situation in Central America at that time. These journeys and Greene’s relationship with Torrijos are also explored in intimate detail in this book – everything from where to get the best rum punches to Greene’s views on US policies in the region.
With extensive new material and exclusive, never-before-seen photographs of the author on his travels, Seeds of Fiction tells the story of how a series of extraordinary and often hair-raising journeys gave one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century new inspiration in his writing.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1965年，Graham Greene在两名海地流放者的陪同下，在多米尼加共和国和海地边界进行了一次“旅游”。Bernard Diederich是两名流放者之一，《小说之源》中包含了这次旅程的第一手资料，也启迪了Graham的另一部重要的作品《喜剧演员》。 Diederich曾是英国和南美媒体一名经验丰富的记者，在海地生活了很多年。1963年，他被杜瓦利埃政权的上一代统治者驱逐出境，并且流放在邻国，多米尼加共和国，并且很快变成了那里海底反对派的领导者。
当这位著名的作家Graham于上世纪50年代中期造访海地的时候，他与Diederich很快就变成了朋友。1965年，当Graham在圣多明各遇到Diederich时，他已经61岁了，且十分得沮丧，对宗教的疑惧让他十分困扰。Diederich意识到海地动荡的政府和时局可以成为Graham绝佳的写作材料，这样也可以揭露杜瓦利埃政府的所有暴行。Diederich建议他们在两国之间展开调查，和他们一起的还有另一个流放者，JeanClaude Bajeux，他原本是海地的神父，他的家人最近失踪了，这一切都与杜瓦利埃政府有关。于是他们出发了，一路上他们遇到了各种各样的人物，他们的故事给Graham最具政治性的小说《喜剧演员》以及《小说之源》提供了创作的蓝本，这两本小说奠定了Graham在文学领域的地位，并且也通过一个非常个人化的角度使读者可以一窥作者自己的生活。
Diederich安排Graham造访了巴拿马，并会见了他们的领导人Omar Torrijos，之后Graham又为了了解这个地区的状况而多次来访，他们之间很快就建立起了坚固的友谊。这多次造访构建了Graham的另一部作品《全面了解》的创作背景，这部作品记录了当时美国中部的情况。这几次旅程，包括Graham和Torrijos之间的亲密关系也在书中详细描写，小到从哪里可以最好的兰姆酒，大到Graham对该地区美国政治的看法，内容翔实。
《小说之源》中囊括了大量新的材料和独家报道以及作者在旅程中从未公开过的照片，这一系列意义非凡且往往惊心动魄的旅程给了这位20世纪最出色的小说家之一，全新的创作灵感。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：13万字
’Bernard Diederich was a legend at Time magazine and the trusted friend of Graham Greene, who often referred to him as his source and guide through the thicket of Central America and Haiti. His writing is the perfect introduction to the brand of adventurous reportage that made Greene the hero of so many.’ – Pico Iyer, from his Foreword
’This is a perfect match of subject and author. Bernie Diederich has captured the passion for journalism and politics that made his friend Graham Greene such a powerful novelist’ – Walter Issacson, author of Steve Jobs, The Exclusive Biography
About the Author/作者介绍： Bernard Diederich在新西兰出生，1949年定居海地。接下来的几年他为英文报纸《海地太阳》工作，并且成为了美联社，纽约时报，时代新闻和每日电讯报的常驻记者。1963年被杜瓦利埃政权的领导人驱逐出海地后，他就住在其邻国多米尼加共和国继续他的记者生涯。他后来又就职于时代杂志，因为他紧追独裁者与死亡事件的近况，所以总能获得大量的第一手新闻资料，涉及的范围也很广，包括政变、革命、侵略、地震、飓风和火山喷发，以及在他书中出现的丰富的政治素材，包括加勒比和美国中部的政治领袖的新闻资料。 Diederich最终于1980年允许重返海地，并且采访了新一代的杜瓦利埃政权的领导人以及他的夫人米歇尔，他得以报道了人民起义，把这两个人都流放出了海地。他之后在迈阿密和海地的太子港两地奔波。1954年，Diederich第一次在海地的首都遇到了Graham，之后因为他们对于这个国家共同的热爱，奠定了终生的友谊，这段友谊因Graham的去世而于1991年终结了。
Bernard Diederich was born in New Zealand and settled in Haiti in 1949. The following year he set up an English-language weekly newspaper, the Haiti Sun, and became the resident corres pondent for the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Time-Life News Service and the Daily Telegraph. Exiled from Haiti in 1963 by Papa Doc Duvalier, he settled in the Dominican Republic and concentrated on his career in journalism. Later postings for Time magazine included Mexico City and Miami, and his close encounters with dictators and death provided an abundance of news – covering coups, revolutions, invasions, earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions – as well as a wealth of material for his books about the politics and political leaders of the Caribbean and Central America.
Diederich was finally allowed to return to Haiti in 1980 to interview Baby Doc Duvalier and his new wife Michèle, and he was then able to report on the popular uprising that sent them both into exile in 1986. He now splits his time between Miami and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It was in the Haitian capital in 1954 that Diederich first met Graham Greene, and this led to a life-long friendship – much of it based on a shared love of that country – which only ended with Greene’s death in 1991.
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