波尔多开出的列车杜拉写过一篇散文,叫《波尔多开出的列车》,很短,大约两千字不到。讲的是在1930年,她和母亲,两个哥哥,从西贡乘夜车回法国,列车是从波尔多开出的。那一年,杜拉十六岁,和她的中国情人已经分手了。他们一家人坐在三等车的一个包厢里,包厢里可以坐八个人,除了杜拉一家,还坐了两三个人,其中有一个年轻人,大约三十岁。 Bordeaux train Dura wrote an essay called “train out of Bordeaux”, a short, about two thousand words. Speaking in 1930, she and her mother, two older brothers, traveled back to France from Saigon in a night train and the train departed from Bordeaux. That year, Dura was sixteen years old, and her Chinese lover had already broken up. The whole family sat in a box of a third-class car. Eight people could sit in the box. In addition to Dura, they also had two or three people, including a young man, about thirty.