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Accidental Authors? Soldiers’ Tales of the Peninsular War and the Secrets of the Publishing Process
History Workshop Journal ( IF 1.109 ) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 , DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dby025
Matilda Greig 1
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The morning of Tuesday, 2 December 1834 dawned bright and sunny in the hills over the peaceful Alpine town of Gap. Taking a walk through the countryside, the retired French officer Jean-Stanislas Vivien was struck by the memory of a similarly beautiful morning twenty-nine years earlier, when crisp winter sunshine had shone on the famous battlefield of Austerlitz. Comparing what he remembered as a day of national glory with the riots and malcontent of the present, Vivien returned home inspired and scrawled down a few jumbled pages of his memories of the battle. What began as a whim quickly became a passion. Encouraged by his brother-in-law, gnawed at by nostalgia, and seeking an escape from the deep grief of his only son’s death, Vivien continued to write, slowly setting down his recollections of several decades spent in the service of Napoleon’s Grande Armée. Five years later, weighing two heavy volumes in his hands, the old veteran found with surprise that he had written a book – ‘without project, without fixed plan and I might even say without thinking about it’. That, at least, is the story Vivien told in his memoirs, a collection of colourful anecdotes from his military career which was dedicated to his wife and son and lost in the family archives for half a century, before being published in January 1905 by the French military history journal Carnet de la Sabretache. It is, moreover, a familiar account. In what one contemporary jokingly dubbed an epidemic of ‘scribblomania’, hundreds of old soldiers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars published their military memoirs in the decades which followed, an unprecedented outpouring of war autobiography which soon established itself as a well-recognized (and well-satirized) literary genre. Yet as both Neil Ramsey and Philip Dwyer have noted, despite the commercial success of many of these books, authors continued to portray themselves in their prefaces and introductions as simple, unlettered soldiers, for whom writing a memoir had been a private, cathartic process, and publishing it practically accidental. The image of the accidental author was a trope strong enough to span national borders, recurring in memoirs written by survivors of all three main sides of the Peninsular War, a violent and brutal campaign fought between

中文翻译:

偶然的作者?半岛战争的士兵故事与出版过程的秘密

1834年12月2日,星期二,早晨,和平的高山小镇盖普(Gap)的山丘上阳光明媚。在乡间漫步时,这位退休的法国军官让·斯坦尼斯拉斯·维维恩(Jean-Stanislas Vivien)对二十年前一个同样美丽的早晨的记忆感到震惊,当时清澈的冬日阳光照在着名的奥斯特里茨战场上。将他回忆为一天的民族荣耀与现在的骚动和不满相比,他回到家时受到启发,并草草抄写了他对战争的记忆。一时兴起的想法很快就变成了一种激情。在他的姐夫的鼓励下,怀旧的事物gna着他,并寻求摆脱他唯一儿子死后的悲痛,维维恩继续写道:慢慢记下他为拿破仑的格兰德·阿梅(GrandeArmée)服务数十年的回忆。五年后,这位老将重重两手,惊讶地发现他写了一本书–“没有项目,没有固定的计划,我什至可以不加考虑就说”。至少,这是维维恩在回忆录中讲述的故事,这是他从军旅生涯中收集来的多彩轶事的资料,这些轶事献给了他的妻子和儿子,并在家族档案中遗失了半个世纪,然后在1905年1月由维维恩出版。法国军事历史杂志《 Carnet de la Sabretache》。此外,它是一个熟悉的帐户。在一个当代人开玩笑地称这种流行病为“乱写乱画”时,在随后的几十年中,参加过拿破仑战争的数百名老兵发表了军事回忆录,战争自传的空前大量涌现,很快就使自己成为公认的(并且被讽刺的)文学体裁。然而,正如尼尔·拉姆齐(Neil Ramsey)和菲利普·德威尔(Philip Dwyer)都指出的那样,尽管这些书中的许多在商业上都取得了成功,但作者在序言和引言中继续将自己描绘成简单的,没有文字的士兵,为他们撰写回忆录是一个私人的,宣泄的过程,并发布它实际上是偶然的。偶然作者的形象是一个足以跨越国界的力量,在半岛战争所有三个主要方面的幸存者所写的回忆录中都反复出现,这是一场介于两次战争之间的暴力残酷的战争 战争自传史无前例的大量涌现,很快就使自己成为了公认的(并且很讽刺的)文学体裁。然而,正如尼尔·拉姆齐(Neil Ramsey)和菲利普·德威尔(Philip Dwyer)都指出的那样,尽管这些书中的许多在商业上都取得了成功,但作者在序言和引言中继续将自己描绘成简单的,没有文字的士兵,为他们撰写回忆录是一个私人的,宣泄的过程,并发布它实际上是偶然的。偶然作者的形象是一个足以跨越国界的力量,在半岛战争所有三个主要方面的幸存者所写的回忆录中都反复出现,这是一场介于两次战争之间的暴力残酷的战争 战争自传史无前例的大量涌现,很快就使自己成为了公认的(并且很讽刺的)文学体裁。然而,正如尼尔·拉姆齐(Neil Ramsey)和菲利普·德威尔(Philip Dwyer)都指出的那样,尽管这些书中的许多在商业上都取得了成功,但作者在序言和引言中继续将自己描绘成简单的,没有文字的士兵,为他们撰写回忆录是一个私人的,宣泄的过程,并发布它实际上是偶然的。偶然作者的形象是一个足以跨越国界的力量,在半岛战争所有三个主要方面的幸存者所写的回忆录中都反复出现,这是一场介于两次战争之间的暴力残酷的战争 尽管这些书中有许多在商业上都取得了成功,但作者继续在序言和介绍中将自己描绘成简单的,没有文字的士兵,为他们写的回忆录是一个私人的,宣泄的过程,实际上出版是偶然的。偶然作者的形象是一个足以跨越国界的力量,在半岛战争所有三个主要方面的幸存者所写的回忆录中都反复出现,这是一场介于两次战争之间的暴力残酷的战争 尽管这些书中有许多在商业上都取得了成功,但作者继续在序言和介绍中将自己描绘成简单的,没有文字的士兵,为他们写的回忆录是一个私人的,宣泄的过程,实际上出版是偶然的。偶然作者的形象是一个足以跨越国界的力量,在半岛战争所有三个主要方面的幸存者所写的回忆录中都反复出现,这是一场介于两次战争之间的暴力残酷的战争
更新日期:2018-01-01
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