人类的精神 The Spirit of Man（1/1）

威廉·福克纳 / Willia Faulkner

威廉·福克纳（1897—1962），1949年诺贝尔文学奖得主。其文以人物心理的细微刻画及复杂迂回的形式结构见胜。因其两度获普利策奖，而赢得“美国伟大小说家”的美誉。本文是他获得诺贝尔奖时发表的著名演说，文中勉励作家必须提升自己的心灵，时时以爱、怜悯与牺牲来唤醒人类亘古的真理。

Pre-readg Activity

Read this article with the questions below, and ahe respectively.

1.A to the author, who or what should be awarded by this prize? Why?

2.What subjects are worth writg about by young n and won?

I feel that this award was not ade toas a an, but to y work—a life’s workthe agony and sweat of the huan spirit, not flory a of all for profit, but to create out of the aterials of the huan spirit sothg which didbefore.So this award is ort.It will not be difficult to fd a dedication for the oney part of it nsurate with the purpose and significe of its .But I would like to do the sa with the ai too, by g this ont as a pnacle fro which I ight be listeo by the young n and won already dedicated to the sa anguish and travail, aong who is already that one who will so day stand here where I a standg.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long staed by now that weeven bear it.There are no longer probles of the spirit.There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Becae of this, the young an or woan writg today has fotten the probles of the huanflict with itself which aloneake go becae only that is worth writg about, worth the agony and the sweat.

He t learn the aga.He t teach hiself that the basest of all thgs is to be afraid; and, teachg hiself that, fet it forever, leavg no roohis workshop for anythg but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths ckg whiy story is epheral and dood —love and honor and pity and pride and passion and sacrifice.