《情人》

  作者：玛格丽特·杜拉斯    翻译：王道乾

有一天

我已经老了

在一处公共场所的大厅里

有一个男人向我走来

他主动介绍自己

他对我说：“我认识你，我永远记得你

那时候，你还很年轻，人人都说你很美

现在，我是特来告诉你

对我来说，我觉得你现在比年轻时更美

那时的你是年轻女人

与你那时的面貌相比

我更爱你现在备受摧残的面容

这个形象，我是时常想到的

这个形象，只有我一个人能看到

这个形象，我却从来不曾说起

它就在那里

在无声无息之中

永远使人为之惊叹

在所有的形象之中

只有它让我感到自悦自喜

只有它在那里

我才认识自己

感到心醉神迷

original:

One day,

I was already old,

in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me. 

He introduced himself 

and said: 'I've known you for years.

Every-one says you were beautiful when you were young,

but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then.

Rather than your face as a young woman,

I perfer your face as it is now. Ravaged.'

I often think of the image only I can see now,

and of which I've never spoken.

It's always there, in the same silence, amazing.

It's the only image of my-self I like,

the only one in which I recognize myself,

in which I delight.