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1、村上春树演讲稿篇一：村上春树耶路撒冷演讲稿Always on the side of the egg 永遠站在雞蛋的一側Good evening. I have xxe to Jerusalem today as a novelist, which is to say as a professional spinner of lies.Of course, novelists are not the only ones who tell lies. Politicians do it, too, as we all know. Diplomats and generals tell their
2、 own kinds of lies on occasion, as do used car salesmen, butchers and builders. The lies ofnovelists differ from others, however, in that no one criticizes the novelist as immoral for telling lies. Indeed, the bigger and better his lies and the more ingeniously he creates them, the more he is likely
3、 to be praised by the public and the critics. Why should that beMy answer would be this: namely, that by telling skilful lies-which is to say, by making up fictions that appear to be true-the novelist can bring a truth out to a new place and shine a new light on it. In most cases, it is virtually im
4、possible to grasp a truth in its original form and depict it accurately. This is why we try to grab its tail by luring the truth from its hiding place, transferring it to a fictional location, and replacing it with a fictional form. In order to acxxplish this, however, we first have to clarify where
5、 the truth-lies within us, within ourselves. This is an important qualification for making up good lies.Today, however, I have no intention of lying. I will try to be as honest as I can. There are only a few days in the year when I do not engage in telling lies, and today happens to be one of them.S
6、o let me tell you the truth. In Japan a fair number of people advised me not to xxe here to accept the Jerusalem Prize. Some even warned me they would instigate a boycott of my books if I came. The reason for this, of course, was the fierce fighting that was raging in Gaza. The reported that more th
7、an a thousand people had lost their lives in the blockaded city of Gaza, many of them unarmed citizens-children and old people.Any number of times after receiving notice of the award, I asked myself whether traveling to Israel at a time like this and accepting a literary prize was the proper thing t
8、o do, whether this would create the impression that I supported one side in the conflict, that I endorsed the policies of a nation that chose to unleash its overwhelming military power. Neither, of course, do I wish to see my books subjected to a boycott.Finally, however, after careful consideration
9、, I made up my mind to xxe here. One reason for my decision was that all too many people advised me not to do it. Perhaps, like many other novelists, I tend to do the exact opposite of what I am told. If people are telling me- and especially if they are warning me- “Dont go there,” “Dont do that,” I
10、 tend to want to “go there” and “do that”. Its in my nature, you might say, as a novelist. Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.And that is why I am here. I chose to xxe here rather than stay away.
11、I chose to see for myself rather than not to see. I chose to speak to you rather than to say nothing.Please do allow me to deliver a message, one very personal message. It is something that I always keep in mind while I am writing fiction. I have never gone so far as to write it on a piece of paper
12、and paste it to the wall: rather, it is carved into the wall of my mind, and it goes something like this:“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.”Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the eg
13、g. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will do it. But if there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works beWhat is the meaning of this metaphor In some cases, it is all too simpl
14、e and clear. Bombers and tanks and rockets and white phosphorus shells are that high wall. The eggs are the unarmed civilians who are crushed and burned and shot by them. This is one meaning of the metaphor.But this is not all. It carries a deeper meaning. Think of it this way. Each of us is, more o
15、r less, an egg. Each of us is a unique, irreplaceable soul enclosed in a fragile shell. This is true of me, and it is true of each of you. And each of us, to a greater or lesser degree, is confronting a high, solid wall. The wall has a name: it is “The System.” The System is supposed to protect us,
16、but sometimes it takes on a life of its own, and then it begins to kill us and cause us to kill others-coldly, efficiently, systematically.I have only one reason to write novels, and that is to bring the dignity of the individual soul to the surface and shine a light upon it. The purpose of a story is to sound an alarm, to keep a light trained on the System in order to prevent it from tangling our souls in its web
