麦克斯·珀金斯编辑思想及其对当代编辑活动的启示

Max Perkins' Editorial Thoughts and their Enlightenments on the Present-day Editorial Activities

麦克斯·珀金斯是美国最为知名的文学编辑之一,发现、挖掘、塑造了菲茨杰拉德、海明威、沃尔夫等多位天才文学巨匠,几乎是以一己之力改变了20世纪美国文学的图景。他认为"编辑自我隐形"是编辑的一种职业操守,在出版活动中编辑不应该引人注目,编辑工作很大一部分的任务在于要尽己所能地发掘、塑造作者的才华,编辑知名度太大反而会影响读者对作者的信任。在麦克斯·珀金斯的编辑生涯中,他不仅是连接图书和作者的桥梁,许多时候更像是探索者,在不断地寻找中发掘优秀的作者和具有潜力的作品。他独特的工作风格和出色的编辑思想,影响着一代又一代的出版人。麦克斯·珀金斯的编辑思想及其工作风格值得当代的编辑从业者借鉴和学习。

Max Perkins,a well-known literature editor in America,discovered and shaped Fitzgerald,Hemingway,etc.,and changed the 21^(st) century American literature world,all by his effort in some way.He believes that 'the editor' s self-invisible' is a kind of editor' s professional integrity.The editor is supposed to find and help shape writers' literary talent.Max Perkins himself was not only a bridge connecting the books and the writers,but an explorer,consistently trying to find potential works.