Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
جاشوا پراگر: شناخت نویسندگان بزرگ از هر سال عمر
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
سال بسیار خوبی خواهد بود٬
particular in store for me,
برای من در راه است٬
که سال خوبی خواهد بود
and sentiment to be a man,
و احساس آنکه مردی باشد٬
wasn't writing about me.
که برای من مینوشته؛
the subject of his book,
موضوع کتاب او٬
along the same great sequence:
and confinements of childhood;
and frustrations of adolescence;
and millstones of adulthood;
and resignations of old age.
"It will happen to me as to them."
"برای من هم مانند آنها اتفاق میافتد."
الگوها را زندگی نمیکنیم٬
where they become narratives
جایی که آنها قصههایی میشوند
و همینطور چه کسی خواهیم بود.
if it passes into anything."
به صفحات ختم میشود."
a thought leapt to mind:
فکری به ذهنم رسید:
there were, somewhere,
پس جایی نوشتههایی
assemble them into a narrative.
میتوانم قصهای از آنها بسازم.
یک عمر صد ساله٬
آن را سپری خواهد کرد.
wrote William Trevor.
ویلیام تریور این طور نوشته است.
متمایل شده بودم.
and later an injury to me
و بعد یک جراحت برای من
could not be assumed.
پیر شدن حتمی نیست.
only postponed the inevitable,
پایانی اجتناب ناپذیر است٬
what circumstance did not.
پیشآمدهایی را که در نمیگذرند.
year by vulnerable year
سالهای آسیب پذیر از پی هم
what was fleeting,
لحظههای زودگذر خواهد بود٬
a glimpse into the future,
گریزی به آینده٬
I was quickly obsessed,
به سرعت در آن غرق شدم٬
for ages and ages.
جست و جوی سالها.
through our first hundred years.
تا رسیدن به انتهای اولین سده.
of sudden revelations,"
ذره ذره خوار شدن."
that such insights were relative.
and so age more slowly.
ما بیشتر عمر میکنیم و دیرتر پیر میشویم.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
"برگ خزان"
used it to describe himself at 36.
در ۳۶ سالگی همینطور وصف کرده بود.
can swing wildly and unpredictably
هر لحظه چرخی میخورد
قابل پیش بینی نیست٬
the same age differently.
متفاوت از هم تجربه میکنند.
as the reflection in the mirror,
انگار که بازتابی از آینهای است٬
and less sure of who one is;"
کمتر و کمتر از آنکه هست یقین مییابد؛"
of preparation into active life;"
برای شروع زندگی واقعی؛"
the doors to rooms
درها به اتاقهایی
visualizations you see here,
زیبای او را اینجا میبینید٬
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
همه آن سالها "...رسیدنی و کامل شدنی،" --
what we've experienced.
تجربیاتمان را به یاد بسپاریم.
the list with my grandfather,
به پدربزرگم دادم٬
او به من گفت که بله٬
we are sure we will not die,
یقین داریم که نخواهیم مرد٬
named Edwin Shneidman was right
به نام ادوین اشنایدمن میگفت
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joshua Prager - JournalistJoshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own.
Why you should listen
Joshua Prager writes for publications including Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior writer for eight years. George Will has described his work as "exemplary journalistic sleuthing."
His new book, 100 Years, is a list of literary quotations on every age from birth to one hundred. Designed by Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer who created the I ♥ NY logo, the book moves year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, revealing the great sequence of life.
His first book, The Echoing Green, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The New York Times Book Review called it “a revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn’s Boys of Summer some three decades ago.”
His second book, Half-Life, describes his recovery from a bus crash that broke his neck. Dr. Jerome Groopman, staff writer at the New Yorker magazine, called it “an extraordinary memoir, told with nuance and brimming with wisdom.
Joshua was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2011 and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University in 2012. He was born in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, grew up in New Jersey, and lives in New York. He is writing a book about Roe v. Wade.
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