杨绛先生是位多面手,有剧本、小说、散文、文论等著作,又从事于英、法、西班牙文作品的翻译。一九八六年十月,西班牙国王卡洛斯授予杨先生‘智慧国王阿方索十世勋章’,以褒奖翻译塞万提斯《堂吉诃德》的贡献。然而论及译事,杨先生却大抵多谈自己‘失败的经验’。与《失败的经验(试谈翻译)》同时收入杨先生近作《杂忆与杂写》(花城版)的,还有一篇《堂吉 Mr. Yang Jiang is a versatile man with scripts, novels, essays, literary theory and other works, but also in English, French, Spanish translation works. In October 1986, King Carlos of Spain awarded Mr. Yang the “Medal of Honor of Alfonso X” to praise the contribution of Cervantus’s “Don Quixote”. However, referring to the translation, Mr. Yang probably talk about his own ’experience of failure’. And “the experience of failure (on translation)” at the same income Yang recent “miscellaneous memories and Miscellaneous” (Flower City Edition), there is a "Church