| 張愛玲、宋淇及宋鄺文美講座系列之五 Eileen Chang, Stephen Soong, and Mae Fong Soong Lecture Series #5 張愛玲母親南洋遺事：入獄一夜、英國情人與書信五封 Remembrance of Things South: Eileen Chang’s Mother’s Night in Prison, English Lover, and Five Letters from Malayan | ||||||||||||||||||
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耗時十年，張愛玲母親黃逸梵晚年的鉤沉始於她在新加坡入獄一夜的一篇新聞。她居於馬來西亞檳城的忘年之交邢廣生提供的五封書信是關鍵的鑰匙，解鎖她遷徙英國後，人生最後的光景。當中的線索更牽出黃逸梵新加坡英籍情人的身份，還原《小團圓》裡母親英國情人「勞以德」的原型，也解開她入獄的謎團。這一連串始於南洋的遺事，交織出黃逸梵浪跡上海、南洋與英國三地的足跡，一如《小團圓》的姑姑笑她爲「流浪的猶太人——被罰永遠流浪不得休息的神話人物。」張愛玲漂泊美國，窘迫孤老的晚年，是否也呼應着母女倆人在天涯的共同命運？
A literary sleuthing that spanned over a decade began with a news clipping of Yvonne Whang, Eileen Chang's mother overnight lock-up during wartime Singapore. Subsequent sharing of five intimate letters by her Malayan friend crucially unlocked unknown events and details of Whang's last year in London. Further clues unveiled the identity of Whang's English lover, a British sculptor who inspired the character “Lloyd” in Chang's “Little Reunion”. These revealing discoveries piece together Whang's drifting life which poignantly mirrors that of her daughter in her latter years.
林方偉先生，新加坡《聯合早報》高級資深記者，業餘文學偵探（「張探社探長」）、譯者、編者、小說作者與編劇，近年鉤沉、挖掘張愛玲與劉以鬯不為人知的事蹟。自2019年起，解碼一系列張愛玲母親黃逸梵的事蹟後，「張探社」便蒸蒸日上。張愛玲故事未完 完不了。
Lim Fong Wei is a senior correspondent at Singapore's national Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao. He is also a translator, editor, fiction and screenplay writer, and a literary sleuth most interested in the lives and works of Eileen Chang and Liu Yichang, particularly seen through the lens of Malaya. In 2019, his “sleuthing” achieved a breakthrough after a series of discovery of Chang's mother, Yvonne Whang's late years in Malaya and the UK.
