Thomas Trondstrom, also known as Thomas Trondstrom, is a Swedish poet and psychologist.
193 1 April1May was born in Stockholm. 1949, the first poem was published in the magazine when laurel grows. 1954 published 17 poetry anthology. 1962 published a collection of poems, Semi-finished Sky. 1978 published a collection of poems, Real Obstacles. 1989 published Poems of the Dead and the Living. 201165438+1October 6th, Nobel Prize in Literature was obtained. On March 26th, 20 15, he died of a stroke.
Chinese name: Thomas Transtrom
Mbth: TomasTranstr_mer
Nationality: Sweden
Date of birth:1931April 15.
Date of death: 2065438+March 26th, 2005.
Occupation: poet, psychologist
Graduate School: Stockholm University
Main achievements: Nobel Prize in Literature +0 1 in 2065438.
Representative Works: 17 Poetry
Character experience
193 1 April1May was born in Stockholm. At the age of three, my parents divorced and grew up with my mother in Stockholm. The environment of Lonnmar Island in Stockholm Islands is an important starting point of his poetry. He became interested in geography and science, especially entomology. When I was a teenager, I showed interest in art, started playing the piano, and soon came into contact with poetry.
1949 published his first poem with the poet shel Esmark in the student magazine "When the laurel grows"; After graduating from high school, I studied the history of literature, religion and psychology at Stockholm University College (now Stockholm University).
In 1950s, he began to travel to Iceland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Egypt. Later, the main form of world travel was reading tour, and the main task was to contact his translator. In the late 1950s, he worked in the Institute of Psychometrics of Stockholm University College, and later worked as a psychological consultant in a youth reformatory outside Linkping.
1954 published a collection of poems, 17 Poems, which caused a sensation in Swedish literary circles. 1958, married Monica; In the same year, Secrets on the Road was published. In the 1960s, the international reputation of his poems continued to improve.
1962 published a collection of poems, Semi-finished Sky. 1965 ——1990, working as a psychological consultant in a labor market research institute. 1966, won the Berman Poetry Award. 1970 published the poetry collection Seeing Darkness, and 1978 published the poetry collection Real Obstacle. 198 1 won the German Poetry Award. 1983 published a collection of poems, Savage Square. 1989 published Poems of the Dead and the Living.
1990 Stroke, right side paralysis, almost complete loss of speech ability; In the same year, he won the American International Literature Award. After that, he published some poems and a memoir, and more and more accepted the form of short poems. 199 1 year, won the Nordic Prize of Swedish Academy. 1992 won the German Poetry Award again. 1993 published his autobiography "Remember Me". 1996 published a collection of poems, The Sorrow of gondola.
1965 until 2000, I lived in Westeros, Sweden. In 2000, he moved to Stockholm, where he insisted on poetry creation. 200 1 Published poetry anthology Prison, poetry anthology Giant riddle and letters anthology Letters 1964- 1990. In 2007, he won the Canadian Lifetime Achievement Award. 201165438+1October 6th, Nobel Prize in Literature was obtained. 20 15, died of stroke.
Main work
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Creative characteristics
Main idea
The concept of nature
Thomas Trondstrom's poems show mystery and vitality with ordinary images, and describe a picture of the universe and the world from fantasy to beauty. The world picture in his poems includes the natural picture branded with the exotic beauty of northern Europe, the industrial picture invaded by industrial civilization, and the social picture displayed under the wave of modernist society. In the description of each picture, the poet's deep thinking and resistance to redemption in the face of modern society are reflected. Through poetry, the poet tries to become an "disenchanter" in an disenchanted society.
In Thomas Trondstrom's poems, nature always exists in life, just like any other tangible and intangible existence, it exists with people, industrial objects, daily thinking and the world in which people exist, and echoes everything contained in it. The nature in poetry is neither the nature that people stare at with the eyes of "creators", nor the nature that is opposed to human existence and divorced from human social and historical situation. In his poems, the life world has always been closely related to nature, and there is no need to attach a rational connection. The life world itself is a spontaneous and natural manifestation process. Nature itself needs a world to meet. Nature is based on the existing entity, and * * * lies in the world people live in and the mysterious imagination of people.
In the social context of modernism, the arrogance of instrumental rationality pushes nature in space, but it is impossible to save nature at the expense of technology. In the behavior that can be done, at most, it is impossible to balance the relationship between technology and nature. In contrast, it seems more important to make changes in thinking and attitude. Regain the awe of nature, treat the tolerance of nature to human existence from an equal perspective, and polish the mysterious light of nature. This is a rethinking of the relationship between man and nature in Thomas Transtrom's poems: nature lives freely in people's lives, with everything that appears in life, even if it is the product of industry. From the perspective of equality, the relationship between them is not opposition but echo. * * * together constitute the great mystery of life, and the mystery here is not insoluble at the irrational level, nor is it a forbidden area that non-human subjectivity can't touch, but more contains rich vitality and possibility, which is a kind of universal consciousness. The poet showed the vastness, mystery and silence of nature in poetic language, and the powerful vitality hidden in nature constantly refreshed people's senses and inspired people's spiritual divinity. Thomas Trondstrom reached the road between nature and soul and bridged the gap between everything with the help of aesthetics and poetic light without being divorced from reality.
Thomas Trondstrom used poetry to call for the return of divinity, and in the same historical context, out of concern for reality, he reproduced the vitality of nature. In contrast, the natural picture in his poems not only responds to the echo of the times, but also reflects the existence of nature in the mechanistic view of nature, restarts the switch of natural vitality under the premise of realistic existence, and polishes the divine light of everything. In the extremely wild environment of northern Europe, poets can better perceive the hidden language of nature, humble subjects face the vast universe, feel mysterious messages from all directions, and unify the communication between heaven and earth, god and man.
Pay attention to survival
Thomas Trondstrom refused to take a political stand, but there was no lack of concern for reality in his poems. All the realistic concerns of the poet are based on the thinking and concern about the living conditions of human beings. Poets think about how real politics enters poetry with a more profound attitude, so as to avoid simple and absolute involvement in politics and make poetry suffer from the erosion of political language. He doesn't want to get involved in ideology. The poet shields the outside world with a kind of abstinence and ruthlessness, still insists on his unique style of poetry creation, thinks about reality in his own way and language, and pays attention to the world. Thomas Transtrom's later poems reflect more sympathy and care for people's living conditions in this world through reflection on reality. In the wave of modernism, his poems undoubtedly reflect the absurdity and numbness of human existence in modern industrial society, the control of totalitarian politics and the corrosion of human spirit by the supremacy of consumerism. He captures all kinds of lifestyles poetically with strange and unique obscure images, gently restrains but reveals the bondage of society to people, tells people's vain and lonely life state with compassion, and probes into reality from another angle. The ultimate goal of a poet is always to think about the world and care about human existence. People have never been independent of external things, not only facing nature, society, others and themselves. The poet's thinking on the relationship between the world and people also conforms to the existential thinking on the existence of people in the world to a certain extent.
Show mystery
Thomas Transtrom's poetry is a poetic capture and shaping of people's lifestyle in modern society. Under the traction of the poet, poetry presents people with a mysterious original realm, where they can feel the real existence, and at the same time, they can break away from ordinary life and open a mysterious touch. Humanistic concerns such as philosophy, ethics and history are hidden in his poems, just like a key with poetic beauty. In this way, the poet opened a more sacred world outside the real society to people, and once again called for the return of divinity in this society where the gods retired. Poets' descriptions of the whole world, death, landscape portraits, psychology, dreams, behavior, travel, suffering, Zen, self-existence and society are often accompanied by profound personal views and reflections, showing the poet's concern and cut-in angle. Starting from his daily life, he thinks about this highly materialistic technological era and where the human soul should be placed. Poets always look for a spiritual outlet for compassionate people and try to provide them with a poetic salvation. The poetic redemption in the poet's poems comes from the poet's revelation of mystery and his call for the return of divinity. In the technological age, holiness has been dissolved and no longer exists, but the poet used his poems to convey the information of a mysterious world to us. He built a fantastic world for people. The poet is like a quiet recorder, roaming in the dark hall of the universe with flickering steam lights, quietly studying and meditating. I have always seen the boundless threshold of waves moving in the distance, flies "reading miniature stationery" and underground "unborn forests waiting for thousands of years".
Artistic feature
Infiltration fusion
On the one hand, Thomas Trondstrom integrated everything he heard and saw-wind, rain, sun, moon, sky, earth, the driving force of literature and philosophy, and social experience-and then cast it into an independent whole-poetry. He is good at combining organic matter and science into poetry from daily life. On the other hand, Thomas Trondstrom's poetry combines impressionism, symbolism, expressionism and Nordic lyric tradition. He is addicted to his heart and always pays attention to the real world. He is introverted and cherishes ink like gold, innovating old images and allusions. At the same time, his poems have a strong sense of music and a peculiar symphony effect. His poetry is a unique literary landscape in the world. He mixed European classical symbolism and surrealism.
terse language
Thomas Transtrom's inner purity and persistent pursuit of art, he wrote short poems all his life, just like an atomic bomb, hiding abundant energy. He keeps an agreement with the world, communicates with his feelings and expresses his personal views. With its gem-like language, it presents the absolute beauty of poetry. Thomas Transtrom's poems are very close, and he likes to express very strong feelings with a few words and associations, similar to Japanese haiku. His words are not part of poetry, but syllables. Transtrom also likes to use the free rhythm and the structure of ancient poems, which is bold and gentle, and often causes unexpected associations. His poems are full of flavor, color, vibration and noise, similar to Paul Valerie's "pure poems" in the history of literature. Although it smells like "art for art's sake", it has gone beyond pure perfectionism and is "demanding yourself psychologically and logically".
Winning record
Personality assessment
(Thomas Trondstrom) Through concise and thorough images, it provides us with a new way to reality. (Swedish Academy's Comments on Literature)
His works (Thomas Trondstrom) are concise in language style, peculiar and accurate in images, full of Zen and the implication of China's Tang poems. (Commented by translator Li Li)
Trondstrom combined symbolism, expressionism, impressionism with European traditional lyric poetry, which reflected some tranquility brought by his religious belief. (Poet North Island Review)
Perhaps it was because he (Thomas Trondstrom) rejected any political stance during the Cold War that he was able to freely shuttle behind the iron curtain and get in touch with more diverse cultures, which made him more transparent and bright in the literary world. (Review by The Guardian)
Thomas Transtrom can be said to be the last representative of European modernist poetry in the second half of the 20th century. He wrote this style to the extreme. In my opinion, he is a model poet. (Wang Jiaxin, poet and critic)