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.
大约一年前，在点评英国马克思主义史学家埃里克•霍布斯鲍姆(Eric Hobsbawm)写的一本书时，记者尼克•科恩(Nick Cohen)曾猜测霍布斯鲍姆的讣告会是什么样子。科恩预言道，政治信仰与霍布斯鲍姆相同的人士会在讣告中赞美他的工作，而与霍布斯鲍姆持不同政见的人士可能会说，“他对极权主义的忠诚使他的作品变得丑陋”——这两个阵营对他的评价会非常不同。
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