沃爾夫,吉恩(WOLFE, Gene)以《拷問者之影》(The Shadow of the Torturer, 1980)開始的“新日之書”(The Book of the New Sun)四部麯。
這四部大部頭長篇(後來還加上瞭第五部)組成瞭極為浩大的一部小說,講述一位年輕拷問者穿越陌生未來世界的漫遊。這個係列中的小說先後獲得世界奇幻奬、星雲奬和坎貝爾紀念奬。
One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow & Claw contains the first two: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which respectively won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards.
This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the marvels of far-future Urth, and who--as revealed near the beginning--eventually becomes his land's sole ruler or Autarch. On the surface it's a colorful story with all the classic ingredients: growing up, adventure, sex, betrayal, murder, exile, battle, monsters, and mysteries to be solved. (Only well into book 2 do we realize what saved Severian's life in chapter 1.) For lovers of literary allusions, they are plenty here: a Dickensian cemetery scene, a torture-engine from Kafka, a wonderful library out of Borges, and familiar fables changed by eons of retelling. Wolfe evokes a chilly sense of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun.
The Book of the New Sun is almost heartbreakingly good, full of riches and subtleties that improve with each rereading. It is Gene Wolfe's masterpiece. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
發表於2024-12-29
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評分這真是我讀過的最奇怪的奇幻瞭。
評分這真是我讀過的最奇怪的奇幻瞭。
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載