纽约书评经典系列：莫雷尔的发明（卡萨雷斯） The Invention of Morel

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 120 pages

Publisher:The New York Review of Books, Inc

Imprint:NYRB Classics

Edition:Main

ISBN:9781590170571

Published:31 Aug 2003

Weight:126g

Dimensions:204 x 132 x 7 (mm)

信息仅供参考，具体以实物位置

书籍简介

豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯称《莫雷尔的发明》是一部情节大师之作，堪比《螺丝在拧紧》和《地心游记》。比奥伊的小说以一个神秘的岛屿为背景，讲述了一个充满悬念和探险的故事，同时也是一段奇妙而不可思议的爱情故事，其中的每个细节都既清晰明了又充满神秘感。

《莫雷尔的发明》受到比奥伊·卡萨雷斯对电影明星露易丝·布鲁克斯的迷恋的启发，并继续过着自己的秘密生活。这部中篇小说深受胡里奥·科塔萨尔、加布里埃尔·加西亚·马尔克斯和奥克塔维奥·帕斯的推崇，帮助开启了拉丁美洲小说现在知名的战后繁荣。作为阿兰·雷乃和阿兰·罗伯-格里耶的《马里昂巴德的一年》的原型，它也改变了电影史。

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我要向全人类证明，这世界是所有逃亡者的地狱。

小说主人公为躲避警方追捕，来到一座偏僻的孤岛上，从此踏入一段交错的时空；在这个有着两个太阳和两个月亮的奇妙世界中，他遭遇了一群神秘人物，他们在岛上的生活循环往复，周而复始，仿佛某种无止境的轮回。逃亡者爱上了其中一名叫福斯蒂妮的女子，然而发现她的世界于自己可见却不可及。为接近自己的所爱，他必须利用科学家莫雷尔留下的发明，为追求灵魂的永恒牺牲一切……

小说集丰富的想象、周密的逻辑和纤细浪漫的叙述风格为一体，兼具斯蒂文森的科幻悬疑与爱伦•坡的幽暗神秘，是西语幻想文学的高峰之作。小说出版后的几十年来曾多次被改编为电影，并为多部影视剧提供了灵感来源，2004年以来在美国大获成功的电视剧《迷失》(LOST)亦深受该书影响。

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.

作者简介

阿道夫·比奥伊·卡萨雷斯 (1914-1999) 出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，父母富裕。他于 20 世纪 30 年代初开始写作，他的故事发表在颇具影响力的杂志《南方》上，通过这本杂志，他结识了他的妻子、画家兼作家西尔维娜·奥坎波，以及后来成为他的导师、朋友和合作者的豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯。1940 年，在写了几部初出茅庐的作品后，比奥伊出版了中篇小说《莫雷尔的发明》，这是他一本令他满意的书，也是他一本展现出他独特的神秘和出乎意料的幽默感的书。后来出版的作品包括短篇和小说，其中包括《逃跑计划》、《英雄之梦》和《在阳光下沉睡》。比奥伊还与博尔赫斯合作出版了《奇幻文学选集》和一系列以 H. Bustos Domecq 为笔名的讽刺素描。

苏珊娜·吉尔·莱文 (Suzanne Jill Levine) 是多部拉丁美洲文学研究的作者，翻译过阿道夫·比奥伊·卡萨雷斯、豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯、吉列尔莫·卡布雷拉·因凡特和曼努埃尔·普伊格等知名作家的作品。莱文的新著作是《曼努埃尔·普伊格和蜘蛛女：他的生平和小说》。她是加州大学圣巴巴拉分校西班牙语系的教授。

露丝·L·C·西姆斯翻译过阿道夫·比奥伊·卡萨雷斯和豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯的作品。

豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯 (1899—1986) 是拉丁美洲文学巨匠，写过许多诗歌、小说和散文集，翻译过吉卜林、伍尔夫、福克纳和爱伦·坡等作家的作品。他是维多利亚·奥坎波杂志《Sur》的定期撰稿人，也是西尔维娜·奥坎波和比奥伊·卡萨雷斯的常客。在一次传奇性的谈话中，三位朋友萌生了编辑《幻想文学选集》的想法，该书于 1940 年出版。

Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents. He began to write in the early thirties, and his stories appeared in the influential magazine Sur, through which he met his wife, the painter and writer Silvina Ocampo, as well Jorge Luis Borges, who was to become his mentor, friend, and collaborator. In 1940, after writing several novice works, Bioy published the novella The Invention of Morel, the first of his books to satisfy him, and the first in which he hit his characteristic note of uncanny and unexpectedly harrowing humor. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an Anthology of Fantastic Literature and a series of satirical sketches written under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq.

Suzanne Jill Levine is the author of numerous studies in Latin American literature and the translator of works by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Manuel Puig, among other distinguished writers. Levine’s most recent book is Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. She is a professor in the Spanish Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ruth L. C. Simms translated books by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899—1986), a giant in Latin American letters, wrote numerous books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and was a prodigious translator of authors such as Kipling, Woolf, Faulkner, and Poe. He was a regular contributor to Victoria Ocampo’s journal Sur, and a frequent dinner guest of Silvina Ocampo and Bioy Casares. Over one of their legendary conversations, the three friends came upon the idea of editing the Antología de la Literatura Fantástica, which was published in 1940.