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1yr Zhou Yisu
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Book

The Last Defender of Camelot
Douban
Roger Zelazny publishing house: Pocket Books 1980
Contains 5 Nebula and Hugo Nominees

finished reading The Last Defender of Camelot 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
昨天听了机核的广播,想起这本好久之前看过的中文版。于是今天把英文版又找来读了一遍。叹为观止。故事、人物、语言都堪称伟大的科幻小说。最让人浮想联翩的可能是中译名,太妙了。泽拉兹尼引用的霍思曼原文,是「生之质」(stuff of life,周煦良译本),「我在呼吸间此淹留」(for a breath I tarry),浪漫隽永又意味深长。在这个语境里做《趁生命气息逗留》,切题且简练。十万分推荐。但今天读了霍思曼,发现一个更妙之处──「莫待我向天风十二方,拾上我无穷的征路」(原诗的最后一句,也被勒古恩用来命名自己的短篇小说集《风的十二方位》)。

Zhou Yisu
@yisu@neodb.social
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Educator & Sociologist from Macao. Current book project focus on Science and Technology development in contemporary China and higher education.

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