弗里茨·森是蘇黎世喬伊斯基金會的創始人和主席(1985-),曾任《喬伊斯季刊》歐洲編輯(1963-1985)、國際喬伊斯基金會主席(1977-1982),紐約州立大學布法羅分校和俄亥俄州立大學等多所大學的客座教授。作為第一代喬伊斯研究學者,弗里茨·森一直活躍在西方喬伊斯學術研究圈,是喬伊斯研究的領軍人物之一。在蘇黎世喬伊斯基金會的邀請和資助下,黃荷博士于2018年赴瑞士進行訪學,在此期間對弗里茨·森進行了面對面的學術專訪,訪談內容主要涉及西方喬伊斯研究的歷史和發展、喬伊斯小說語言藝術、喬伊斯的語言觀及喬伊斯小說的翻譯研究等重要議題。弗里茨·森回想起早年喬伊斯如何成為其學術研究對象的緣由,并運用喬伊斯小說中若干有趣的例子來解釋其語文學解讀方法。此外,他還強調了如何將喬伊斯小說文本視作一種動態過程及如何以具體字詞作為研究的切入點,以此來考察文字的生命和喬伊斯獨一無二的語言特征。

Fritz Senn is the founder and President of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation(1985-), former European editor of James Joyce Quarterly(1963-1985), former President of the International James Joyce Foundation(1977-1982) and Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Ohio State University. As one of the first-generation Joycean scholars, Fritz Senn has been playing an active and leading role in the Joycean circle in the West. Invited and sponsored by the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Dr. Huang He went to Switzerland as a visiting scholar in 2018. During her stay, she interviewed Fritz Senn on issues concerning the history and development of Joycean studies in the West, the art of language in Joyce’s works, Joyce’s view on language and the translation of Joyce’s works. In this interview, Mr. Senn reflects on his early encounter with Joyce and explains his philological approach to Joyce’s texts with numerous interesting examples. Fritz Senn puts much emphasis on how he regards Joyce’s texts as a dynamic process and how he always approaches Joyce from the specific words on the pages, examining the life of words and Joyce’s idiosyncratic treatment of language.