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    STEVENSON: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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• • 史蒂文森: 塞文山驴背之旅 / STEVENSON: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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  • Robert Louis StevensonTravels with a Donkeyin the Cévennes Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850 andwent to France with his parents when he was 13 years old. It was to be thefirst of many visits and the beginning of a long-standing love-affair with thatcountry. His book, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, was writtenfrom diaries kept whilst on a walking tour in September 1878. Missing FannyOsbourne, an American, ten years his senior, with whom he had formed a deepattachment (she had returned to California in an attempt to sort out her personalentanglements), he decided to embark on this lone expedition through the wildcountryside of the Cévennes. On the trip he kept a daily journal which heusually wrote first thing in the morning, as he said, when he was fresh, or,sometimes, in an inn at lunchtime. From the outset, he had every intention ofpublishing the diary. It was, in fact, published the next year in 1879, andentitled The Cévennes Journal. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes is a charming accountof this Romantic’s walk, through the rugged countryside, in all weathers,accompanied by his obstinate donkey, Modestine. Indeed, Modestine has such acharacter that she has become one of literature’s famous underdog companionsalong with Sancho Panza and many others. It is as though in Robert LouisStevenson’s eyes she becomes a surrogate for all life’s ills.The attention to detail vividly brings to life the quiet,every-day scenes of pastoral France and illuminates not only Robert LouisStevenson’s love of France but also his love/hate relationship with Scotland.We see this through his constant comparisons of the scenery and the climate andthrough the pleasure he shows when reminded of things Scottish, as when heobserves a gentle, devout community pouring out of church one Sunday morning. Religion plays an important part in his thoughts on thiswalk. He is fascinated by the French Protestant rebels of the region — theCamisards — who remind him of the stories that his nanny used to tell him aboutthe Scottish Covenanters. And he shows his underlying loyalty to thePresbyterian tradition, despite his open-mindedness, as illustrated in hisdescription of the Trappist monastery Surprisingly, throughout his twelve-daywalk, Robert Louis Stevenson never mentions Fanny. However, we read of hisappreciation of beautiful women, we share his love of sleeping under the starsand we luxuriate with him in his sense of freedom. This short account by the author of, amongst others,Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and AChild’s Garden of Verses, reveals the passionate, impulsive and yet determinedand loyal side of Robert Louis Stevenson’s nature. His dedication of Travelswith a Donkey to Sidney Colvin, an eminent man of letters, illustrates this: My Dear Sidney Colvin, The journey, which this little book is to describe, was veryagreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best ofluck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls thewilderness of this world — all, too, travelers with a donkey; and the best thatwe find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who findsmany. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end and the reward of life.They keep us worthy of ourselves; and, when we are alone, we are only nearer tothe absent.Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter tothe friends of him who writes it. They alone take his meaning; they findprivate messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude dropped forthem in every corner. The public is but a generous patron who defrays thepostage. Yet though the letter is directed to all, we have an old and kindlycustom of addressing it on the outside to one. Of what shall a man be proud, ifhis is not proud of his friends? And so, my dear Sidney Colvin, it is withpride that I sign myself affectionately yours, R.L.S. Notes by Jan Fielden
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：23226  Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

      • Le Monastier - Preparations For Departure

      • The Green Donkey Driver

      • Recalcitrant Modestine

      • I Have A Goad

      • Rain And Bogs On The Road To Cheylard

      • A Camp In The Dark

      • Cheylard At Last

      • Father Apollinaris

      • The Monks Of Our Lady Of The Snows

      • The Trappist Rule

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：23226  Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

      • The Boarders

      • Across The Goulet

      • A Night Among The Pines

      • The Country Of The Camisards

      • Pont de Montvert

      • In The Valley Of The Tarn

      • In The Valley Of The Mimente

      • The Heart Of The Country

      • The Last Day

      • Farewell Modestine!