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英媒评出十佳亚洲小说 《红楼梦》居首【高
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Asian literature offers some of the most beautiful prose ever written. We pick the classics all books fans should read.亚洲文学中涌现出了许多动人篇章,英国《电讯报》特挑选书迷应当阅读的史上十佳亚洲小说:
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1、The Dream of the Red Chamber《红楼梦》
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.史诗般的《红楼梦》并非用文言文写的,而是采用通俗的白话文。全书中有400多个人物,以一个权贵家族的两个分支为主线,描述了一个凄美的爱情故事,人文气息浓厚。
2、A Fine Balance《微妙的平衡》
Rohinton Mistry (1995)作者:罗欣顿米斯特里(1995年出版)
Set during the Emergency of 1970 (a period marked by
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精品资料欢迎阅读 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.故事发生在20世纪70年代,当时的社会背景政局动荡、酷刑监禁滥用。米斯特里对时任印度总理英迪拉甘地持批判态度。书中四个人物虽背景迥异,但他们却因为剧烈的社会变革而走到了一起。
3、Rashomon《罗生门》
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1915)作者:芥川龙之介 (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.本书作者芥川龙之介一生写了150多篇现代主义短篇小说,但未涉足长篇。芥川龙之介仅在17岁的时候就在大学杂志上发表了小说《罗生门》。这篇13页的短篇小说讲述了人们对一名武士遇害、其妻失踪事件的7种说法。
4、The Thousand Nights and One Night《一千零一夜》
Anonymous (First published in English 1706)作者:不详 (1706年英文首版)
Wiley Scheherazade diverts the sultan from her execution with the poetic and riddlesome adventures of Aladdin, Ali Baba,
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精品资料欢迎阅读 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》中有众多冒险故事:阿拉丁、阿里巴巴、辛巴达和一些其他神灵等,而山鲁佐德也因为他们的冒险故事而避免了杀身之祸。这些故事充满犯罪、惊悚、奇幻和浪漫色彩,对托尔斯泰、大仲马、拉什迪、柯南道尔、普鲁斯特和洛夫克拉夫特等众多作家都产生了深刻影响。
5、Heat and Dust《热与尘》(又译作《印度之恋:一个英国女人的印度寻情之旅》)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)作者:露丝普拉瓦尔杰哈布瓦拉 (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.杰哈布瓦拉是唯一获得布克奖和奥斯卡奖两项殊荣的人。这本引人入胜的小说讲述了这样一个故事:一个女人前往印度,了解其继母在20世纪20年代英国殖民统治下生活的真相。
注:布克奖(The Man Booker Prize,或Booker Prize,又简称the Booker),是英语文学最重要的年度书奖之一,从1969年开始颁发,每年颁发一次。
6、All About H Hatterr《H哈特尔大全》
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英媒评出十佳亚洲小说 《红楼梦》居首【高考英语阅读素材】
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