帕蒂史密斯將出版後續回憶錄《M列車》

Patti Smith, the rock poet and National Book Award winner for 2010’s “Just Kids,” will release a follow-up memoir, titled “M Train,” on Oct. 6, the publisher Knopf announced on Monday.

搖滾詩人帕蒂·史密斯(Patti Smith)曾憑藉《只是孩子》(Just Kids)獲得2010年美國國家圖書獎(National Book Award)。週一，諾夫出版公司(Knopf)宣佈將於10月6日出版她的後續回憶錄，名爲《M列車》(M Train)。

While “Just Kids” centered on Ms. Smith’s formative years in New York City and her almost cosmic relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, “M Train” is “a coffee-saturated odyssey into the mind of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafes and haunts she has worked in around the world,” Knopf said in a statement.

《只是孩子》主要講述史密斯在紐約市的成長以及她與藝術家羅伯特·梅普爾索普(Robert Mapplethorpe)的複雜關係。諾夫出版公司在聲明中說，《M列車》則是“瀰漫着咖啡香味的漫長曆險之旅，通過她在世界各地工作過的咖啡館和常去之地，講述這位傳奇藝術家漫長的心路歷程”。

Ms. Smith called the new book “a roadmap to my life.” Her publisher said the memoir will take readers through 18 “stations” that proved influential in Ms. Smith’s work and personal development, “from Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud and Mishima.”

史密斯稱這本新書是“我的人生路標”。出版公司說，這本回憶錄將帶領讀者走過18座“車站”，這些“車站”對史密斯的事業和個人發展具有重要意義，“從墨西哥弗裏達·卡洛(Frida Kahlo)的藍房子(Casa Azul)，到北極探險家協會在柏林的一次會議；從颶風桑迪襲擊前，史密斯在紐約法羅卡韋買下的搖搖欲墜的海邊小屋，再到熱內(Genet)、普拉斯(Plath)、蘭波(Rimbaud)和三島由紀夫的墓地”。

“M Train” will also cover Ms. Smith’s marriage to the MC5 guitarist Fred Smith, who died in 1994 at the age of 44. Teasing the sequel in 2012, Ms. Smith told Billboard that the book is “in more of the ‘Just Kids’ vein and even in the similar time period, but shifts more to family, Fred, music.”

《M列車》也將講述史密斯與MC5樂隊吉他手弗雷德·史密斯(Fred Smith)的婚姻。1994年，44歲的弗雷德去世。2012年，史密斯在接受《公告牌》(Billboard)採訪時開玩笑地談起這部續集，說它“主要滲透在《只是孩子》的血脈裏，它們講述的幾乎是同一時期的事，不過《M列車》更多是關於家庭、弗雷德和音樂”。

“I don’t have a big rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, a sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll story to tell,” she added. “I think I have maybe a better story.”

“我講述的不是搖滾生活方式，不是性、毒品和搖滾故事，”她補充說，“我覺得我講的故事也許更好。”