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英媒評出十佳亞洲小說 《紅樓夢》居首

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Asian literature offers some of the most beautiful prose ever written. We pick the classics all books fans should read.
亞洲文學中涌現出了許多動人篇章,英國《電訊報》特挑選書迷應當閱讀的史上十佳亞洲小說:

1、The Dream of the Red Chamber
《紅樓夢》

Cao Xueqin (printed 1791)
作者:曹雪芹(1791年出版)

With a cast of more than 400 characters, this episodic novel written in the vernacular rather than classical Chinese tells of two branches of an aristocratic family with a tragic love story at its humane heart.
史詩般的《紅樓夢》並非用文言文寫的,而是採用通俗的白話文。全書中有400多個人物,以一個權貴家族的兩個分支爲主線,描述了一個悽美的愛情故事,人文氣息濃厚。

英媒評出十佳亞洲小說 《紅樓夢》居首

2、A Fine Balance
《微妙的平衡》

Rohinton Mistry (1995)
作者:羅欣頓·米斯特里(1995年出版)

Set during the Emergency of 1970 (a period marked by political unrest, torture and detentions), Mistry is critical of then-prime minister Indira Gandhi. Four characters from very different backgrounds are brought together by rapid social changes.
故事發生在20世紀70年代,當時的社會背景政局動盪、酷刑監禁濫用。米斯特里對時任印度總理英迪拉·甘地持批判態度。書中四個人物雖背景迥異,但他們卻因爲劇烈的社會變革而走到了一起。

3、Rashomon
《羅生門》

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1915)
作者:芥川龍之介 (1915年出版)

The author of more than 150 modernist short stories, but no full-length novels, Ryunosuke published Rashomon in a university magazine when he was just 17. Just 13 pages long, it comprises seven statements regarding the murder of a Samurai and his wife’s disappearance.
本書作者芥川龍之介一生寫了150多篇現代主義短篇小說,但未涉足長篇。芥川龍之介僅在17歲的時候就在大學雜誌上發表了小說《羅生門》。這篇13頁的短篇小說講述了人們對一名武士遇害、其妻失蹤事件的7種說法。

4、The Thousand Nights and One Night
《一千零一夜》

Anonymous (First published in English 1706)
作者:不詳 (1706年英文首版)

Wiley Scheherazade diverts the sultan from her execution with the poetic and riddlesome adventures of Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad and mystical creatures. Packing in crime, horror, fantasy and romance, it influenced authors as diverse as Tolstoy, Dumas, Rushdie, Conan Doyle, Proust and Lovecraft.
《一千零一夜》中有衆多冒險故事:阿拉丁、阿里巴巴、辛巴達和一些其他神靈等,而山魯佐德也因爲他們的冒險故事而避免了殺身之禍。這些故事充滿犯罪、驚悚、奇幻和浪漫色彩,對托爾斯泰、大仲馬、拉什迪、柯南道爾、普魯斯特和洛夫克拉夫特等衆多作家都產生了深刻影響。

5、Heat and Dust
《熱與塵》(又譯作《印度之戀:一個英國女人的印度尋情之旅》)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)
作者:露絲·普拉瓦爾·傑哈布瓦拉 (1975年出版)

In this compelling novel by the only person to have won both the Booker Prize and an Oscar, a woman travels to India to learn the truth about her step-grandmother and her life under the British Raj of the 1920s.
傑哈布瓦拉是唯一獲得布克獎和奧斯卡獎兩項殊榮的人。這本引人入勝的小說講述了這樣一個故事:一個女人前往印度,瞭解其繼母在20世紀20年代英國殖民統治下生活的真相。

小編注:布克獎(The Man Booker Prize,或Booker Prize,又簡稱the Booker),是英語文學最重要的年度書獎之一,從1969年開始頒發,每年頒發一次。6、All About H Hatterr
《H·哈特爾大全》

G V Desani (1948)
作者:G·V·德薩尼 (1948年出版)

It’s the glorious mash-up of English and Indian colloquialism that makes this book, about the son of a European merchant and a Malayan lady, such a wild, whimsical delight. Anthony Burgess admired its “creative chaos that grumbles at the restraining banks”.
一名歐洲商人和馬來女子所生的兒子是本部小說的主角,書中巧妙地融合了英語和印度俚語,文筆精彩。安東尼·伯吉斯稱讚這本書中“雖一團糟糕但生氣勃勃,魅力涌動四溢”。

7、The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
《奇鳥行狀錄》

Haruki Murakami (1994)
作者:村上春樹 (1994年出版)

This labyrinthine and hallucinogenic novel gets going when Toru Okada’s cat disappears in suburban Tokyo. He consults a pair of psychic sisters who appear to him in dreams and reality. But although Murakami’s plot meanders, it never loses its pace or its humanity.
岡田亨的貓在東京郊區走失,小說藉此拉開了序幕。岡田亨既而向一對亦真亦幻、擁有特異功能的姐妹詢問貓咪的下落……村上春樹的小說雖然情節曲折,但不失節奏之美和人文之美。

8、Spring Snow
《春雪》

Yukio Mishima (1969-71)
作者:三島由紀夫 (1969年-1971年間出版)

Before committing ritual suicide in November 1970, Mishima posted this tetralogy of novels (named after a dry lunar plain once believed awash with water) to his publisher. It’s a saga of 20th-century Japan, in which a law student imagines a school friend constantly reincarnated.
三島由紀夫把這篇四部曲發給了出版商,隨後便在1970年11月剖腹自殺。長篇小說《春雪》以20世紀的日本爲背景,小說中有一名學法律的學生不停地想象着自己的朋友一次次轉世。

9、Midnight's Children
《午夜的孩子》

Salman Rushdie (1980)
作者:薩爾曼·拉什迪 (1980年出版)

Magic realism meets postcolonial India in the ambitious, colourful and clever novel which was awarded the “Booker of Bookers” Prize. Hero Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947: the second of India’s independence and is endowed with an extraordinary talent.
本書充滿魔幻現實主義色彩,作品野心勃勃、豐富多彩、情節精巧,榮獲“布克中的布克獎”。故事發生的背景在後殖民時代的印度,主人公薩利姆·西奈隨1947年8月15日的午夜鐘聲降臨人世、稟賦非凡,而此時也正是印度獨立的一刻。

10、The God of Small Things
《微物之神》(又譯作《卑微的神靈》)

Arundhati Roy (1997)
作者:阿倫德哈蒂·羅伊 (1997年出版)

This intense and exquisitely written tale of fraternal twins unfolds against a backdrop of communism, the caste system, and Christianity in Kerala from the Sixties to the Nineties. “Change is one thing,” writes Roy in her Booker Prize-winning debut, “Acceptance is another”.
《微物之神》張力十足、筆觸細膩,講述了印度西南部喀拉拉邦一對雙胞胎兄妹的故事。故事發生在19世紀60年代到90年代之間,穿插了共產主義運動、種姓制度和基督教等內容。羅伊在小說中寫道:“改變是一回事,接受改變是另一回事。”

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