詹姆斯•瑟伯(James Thurber, 1894—1961),美國著名幽默作傢、寓言作傢、插畫傢。1926年開始為《紐約客》雜誌撰稿,1927年進入《紐約客》編輯部,成為其中最年輕有為的編輯、自由撰稿記者。瑟伯和E.B.懷特一起確立瞭《紐約客》詼諧、辛辣的文風,即所謂“《紐約客》文風”。晚年執教於耶魯大學。瑟伯一生創作瞭大量的散文、隨筆、寓言、故事、迴憶錄,他還為自己的作品繪製插圖,給《紐約客》畫封麵。
Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales.
So begins James Thurber’s sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks , in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke’s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero (”He yearned to find in a far land the princess of his dreams, singing as he went, and possibly slaying a dragon here and there”) and unapologetic villain (”We all have flaws,” the Duke said. “Mine is being wicked”), while wondering at the enigmatic Golux, the mysterious stranger whose unpredictable interventions speed the story to its necessarily happy end.
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