Ayear or so ago, the journalist Nick Cohen, reviewing a book by the English Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, made the mistake of guessing what Hobsbawm’s obituaries would look like. Those who shared Hobsbawm’s political commitments would laud his work, Mr Cohen predicted. Those who did not would say “his loyalty to totalitarianism disfigured his writing”. There would be little agreement between the two camps.
大約一年前，在點評英國馬克思主義史學家埃里克?霍布斯鮑姆(Eric Hobsbawm)寫的一本書時，記者尼克?科恩(Nick Cohen)曾猜測霍布斯鮑姆的訃告會是什么樣子?？贫黝A言道，政治信仰與霍布斯鮑姆相同的人士會在訃告中贊美他的工作，而與霍布斯鮑姆持不同政見的人士可能會說，“他對極權主義的忠誠使他的作品變得丑陋”——這兩個陣營對他的評價會非常不同。
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