暗夜无星
作者:(美)斯蒂芬·金(Stephen Kin
出版社:人民文学出版社出版时间:2015-08-01
开本:22cm页数:368
定价: ¥46.0
暗夜无星 版权:
ISBN:9787020111718
条形码:9787020111718 ; 978-7-02-011171-8
装帧:简裝本
版次:1
册数:暂无
重量:暂无
印刷次数:1
所属分类:小说>惊悚/恐怖
暗夜无星 特点:
编辑推荐
在命运的转折点上, 谁有勇气面对内心*陌生的自己?
继《肖申克的救赎》之后,故事大师斯蒂芬·金*新中篇力作
获得二○一○年布拉姆·斯托克奖和二○一一年英伦奇幻奖
《1922》进入二○一一年英伦奇幻奖 中篇小说的决选名单。《美满婚姻》于二○一四年被搬上大银幕。
名人推荐
在斯蒂芬·金之前,的确也有许多优秀的畅销书作家,但金凭一己之力,让通俗小说成长了许多。
——(美国小说家)杰弗里·迪弗
媒体推荐
若论这星球上既迷人又可怕的家伙,金要排首位……《暗夜无星》中的书页仿佛不经人手,会自行翻动。
——《今日美国》
与《肖申克的救赎》一样,金再次用写实的手法表现了黑暗的主题,将人性中的贪婪、自欺和仇恨推到了顶点。
——《出版人周刊》
又一部经典的诞生……精彩绝伦的心理惊悚。
——《哥伦布快报》
一半是光芒,一半是灰烬
宋薇棠
不知为何,在斯蒂芬·金几部重要的作品里,我至今记得的,只剩下《闪灵》中的只言片语:“那天回想起小时候,好像是痛苦没有希望的时代,又好像是所有痛苦都还没有到来的时代。”就像黎明将至的午夜,又似灰烬中的余烟,一切似乎还有希望,却又沉在黑暗里,是看不清侧脸的阴影。
他的作品,总是在痛苦与希望中徘徊着,一半是光芒,一半是灰烬。如果说《闪灵》和《肖申克的救赎》是一片死灰中弥足珍贵的火种,那么这本《暗夜无星》就是燃烧殆尽的后一丝微光,希望在指尖寸寸燃尽,绝望的黑暗蒙住双眼……斯蒂芬·金用他擅长的心理刻画,分成四个中篇小说,分别将这些陌生人不堪的故事辗转纸上:《1922》中与妻子起争执而将其杀害的丈夫,《大司机》里惨遭强暴却死里逃生的作家,《万事皆平衡》中身陷绝症、痛苦度日的男人,还有《美满婚姻》里发现丈夫可怕秘密的女人。
斯蒂芬·金曾说过:“这些故事中的人物不是没有怀揣希望,但他们承认,哪怕是我们甜美的希望有时候也可能只是枉然,甚至经常如此……而一旦我们没有去做或者刻意回避困难的时候,地狱就随之而来。”
在印象让人深刻的《1922》里,那个杀妻离子、终一无所有的詹姆斯先生,初所希望的不过是“生活在农庄里,做一辈子的农民”这样一个微小的愿望而已,所以他和儿子杀死了决定卖掉田产的妻子。而当所有的阻碍都已清除,未来一片光明之时,真正的噩梦才刚刚来临——他质朴的儿子带着怀孕的小情人远走他乡,他的手被老鼠蚕食至残,失去女儿的邻居逝世……曾经他以杀妻为代价获得的田地,终被他贱卖;曾经一度唾手可得的幸福,终被他葬送;曾经惨死的妻子,却给了他人生中致命的“报复”。可笑的是,他独一保住的——只有那个已经毫无意义的杀人秘密。
看似握住了光芒的尾巴,张开手掌却只剩下在风中消散的灰烬。
当活着已同死亡无异,人生如同行走在暗夜里,再无一丝星光引路,就像这本书的书名一样,它冷峻残酷,它让人不忍卒读。可以说《1922》是整本书绝望黑暗的一个故事,相比于《大司机》里九死一生但依然活着的女作家,《美满婚姻》中即将承受未来舆论压力的妻子而言,它是个彻头彻尾的悲剧,同时也是整本小说集里贴近斯蒂芬·金想法的故事:恐怖只是理解生活的一种方式,我们要看到的是恐怖背后的悲剧本质。
所以,不要为了希望而希望,因为那样做只会走向绝望。
那些所谓的光芒与灰烬,正是斯蒂芬·金故事世界中天平的两端,没有谁注定要承受苦难,也没有谁注定要幸福一生。“祸兮福之所倚,福兮祸所伏。”千年以前,老子的话就已经表明了一切,如同书中的第三个故事《万事皆平衡》,它的篇幅短,也有总结性,内容就如题目所说,万事万物皆有因有果,平衡使然,个人认为适合放到全书的*后。
很喜欢《万事皆平衡》里的一句话:“生活是公平的。在盒子里面,我们同样摇摇晃晃了九个月,然后就是骰子滚动。有些人连续得到七。有些人不幸,得到的是蛇眼。世道就是这样。”
我们的人生,皆是一半光芒,一半灰烬。一半还在燃烧,一半已经涅槃。
Editorial recommendation
At the turning point of fate, who has the courage to face his strange self?
After Shawshank’s redemption, Stephen King, a master storyteller, is a new novella
He won the Brahm stoke award in 2010 and the British Fantasy Award in 2011
1922 was shortlisted for the 2011 British Fantasy Award novella. “Happy marriage” was put on the big screen in 2014.
Celebrity recommendation
Before Stephen King, there were indeed many excellent best-selling writers, but king made popular novels grow a lot on his own.
——(American novelist) Jeffrey Defoe
Media recommendation
If you talk about the charming and terrible guys on this planet, Kim should rank first… The pages in dark night without stars seem to turn on their own without hands.
——USA Today
Like Shawshank Redemption, king once again expressed the theme of darkness in a realistic way, pushing the greed, self deception and hatred in human nature to the top.
——Publisher weekly
The birth of another classic… A wonderful psychological thriller.
——Columbus Express
Half light, half ashes
Song Weitang
Somehow, in Stephen King’s several * important works, I still remember only a few words in the flash: “when I recall my childhood, it seems to be an era of * pain * no hope, and it seems that all the pain has not yet come.” it is like the midnight of dawn and the smoke in the ashes. Everything seems to have hope, But he sank into the darkness, unable to see the shadow of his side face.
His works are always wandering in pain and hope, half light and half ashes. If “flash” and “Shawshank’s redemption” are precious kindles in the dead ash, then this book “no star in the dark night” is a glimmer of light after the burning * and hopes to burn out inch by inch at the fingertips, blindfolded by the desperate darkness… Stephen King uses his psychological depiction to divide them into four novelettes to turn the unbearable stories of these strangers on the paper: In 1922, the husband who quarreled with his wife and killed him, the writer who was raped but narrowly escaped death in the big driver, the man who lived in terminal illness and pain in everything is in balance, and the woman who found her husband’s terrible secret in a happy marriage.
Stephen King once said, “the characters in these stories are not without hope, but they admit that even our sweet hope may sometimes be in vain, or even often… And once we don’t do it or deliberately avoid difficulties, hell will follow.”
In the impressive 1922, Mr. James, who killed his wife and lost everything, wanted to “live on the farm and be a farmer all his life” It was just such a small wish, so he and his son killed his wife who decided to sell the land. When all the obstacles had been cleared and the future was bright, the real nightmare had just come - his simple son took his pregnant little lover away from home, his hands were eaten by rats, and his neighbor who lost his daughter died… He once got it at the cost of killing his wife His land * was sold at a low price; the happiness once available * was finally buried by him; his wife who died miserably gave him a fatal “revenge” in his life. Ironically, the only thing he kept was the meaningless murder secret.
It seems to hold the tail of the light, open your palm, but only the ashes dissipated in the wind.
When living is no different from death, life is like walking in the dark night without a trace of starlight. Just like the title of this book, it is cold and cruel, and it makes people unbearable to read. It can be said that 1922 is a story of despair and darkness in the whole book. Compared with the female writer who narrowly died but still alive in big driver, happy marriage For his wife who is about to bear the pressure of future public opinion, it is not only a complete tragedy, but also a story close to Stephen King’s idea in the whole novel collection: terror is only a way to understand life, and what we need to see is the tragic essence behind terror.
Therefore, do not hope for hope, because doing so will only lead to despair.
Those so-called lights and ashes are just the two ends of the scale in Stephen King’s story world. No one is destined to bear hardships and no one is destined to live a happy life. “Misfortune lies on fortune, and fortune lies on misfortune.” Lao Tzu’s words have shown everything thousands of years ago, just like the third story in the book, “everything is balanced” , its length is * short and * summative. As the title says, everything has its causes and consequences, and balance makes it suitable to be placed behind the * of the whole book.
I like a sentence in everything is in balance: “life is fair. In the box, we also wobble for nine months, and then the dice roll. Some people get seven in a row. Some people are unfortunate and get snake eyes. That’s the way of the world.”
Our life is half light, half ashes, half still burning, half nirvana.
暗夜无星 简介:
这是斯蒂芬·金继《肖申克的救赎》之后又一部重量级中篇小说集,同样也收录了四个篇目:《1922》《大司机》《万事皆平衡》和《美满婚姻》。正如作者本人所言,“每个人心中都住着另一个人,一个陌生人”,这几个故事讲述的都是人在命运转折点上所展现的完全不同于平日的面貌:因妻子执意卖掉祖产而起了杀心的丈夫,发现枕边人不堪秘密的妻子,身患绝症、陷入危机的男人,惨遭强暴、命悬一线的女人……面对人生中*黯淡的时刻,他们将如何抉择?
本书首次出版于二○一○年,获得当年的布拉姆·斯托克奖和次年的英伦奇幻奖。《1922》进入二○一一年英伦奇幻奖 中篇小说的决选名单。《美满婚姻》于二○一四年被搬上大银幕。
This is Stephen King’s another heavyweight novella after Shawshank’s redemption. It also includes four chapters: 1922, the big driver, everything is balanced and a happy marriage. As the author himself said, “there is another person in everyone’s heart, a stranger”. These stories are all about people’s faces at the turning point of fate, which are completely different from normal times: a murderous husband who is determined to sell his ancestral property because his wife is determined to sell his ancestral property, a wife who finds that the person beside him can’t bear secrets, a man who is terminally ill and in crisis, brutally raped Women whose lives are on the line… How will they choose in the face of * dark moments in life?
The book was first published in 2010 and won the Bram stoke award of that year and the British Fantasy Award of the following year. 1922 was shortlisted for the 2011 British Fantasy Award novella. “Happy marriage” was put on the big screen in 2014.
暗夜无星 目录:
1922/1
大司机/129
万事皆平衡/237
美满婚姻/271
后记/353
暗夜无星 摘选:
后记
本书中的故事冷峻残酷。有些部分你也许会觉得不忍卒读。倘如此,请你放心,有些部分我同样觉得不忍下笔。每当人们问及我的创作时,我已经养成一个习惯,那就是用笑话以及具有幽默效果的个人轶事(这些轶事你不能完全相信;千万别相信小说家关于自己所说的任何话)绕开话题。这是一种打岔方式,美国佬的祖上也许是这样来回答此类问题的:这与你无关,伙计;与这样的方式相比,我的回答稍微婉转些。不过,在玩笑的背后,我倒是非常严肃地对待我的作品的,而且,自从我十八岁那年写下部作品《长路漫漫》始,我就一直如此。
对于那些不严肃对待创作的作家,我少有耐心;而对于那些把故事—虚构艺术当成本质上陈旧过时的作家,我压根儿就没有耐心。故事—虚构没有过时陈旧,但它也不是文学游戏。它是我们试图理解生活和我们见到的周围的恐怖世界的一种重要方式。它是我们回答“怎么 会是这样的情形呢?”的方式。故事有时候表明——并不总是,但有时候——存在某种原因。
从一开始——甚至在那个我现在几乎无法理解的年轻人在他的学生宿舍里开始写作《长路漫漫》之前——我就感到,好的虚构既是推进式的,也是狂暴式的。它直击你的面部。有时候,它对着你的面部吼叫。我从不抱怨文学虚构,通常,文学虚构关注的是平常情境下的非常人物,但是,既作为读者又作为作者,我倒是更多地被非常情境下的平常人物所吸引。我想要在我的读者身上激发出情感的、甚至是撕心裂肺的反应。使他们在读书的时候思考不是我的做法。我强调这个意思,是因为如果故事足够迷人、人物足够逼真的话,一旦故事讲完,书被搁置一边(有时候如释重负地),思考自会取代情感。我还能记得十三岁左右阅读乔治·奥威尔的《1984》的情景。我带着愈来愈深刻感受到的沮丧、愤怒和侮辱,拼命向前翻页,尽可能迅速读完那个故事,可这有什么过错吗?尤其是自从我思考这个问题以来,一直到今天,每当某些政客(我正想到莎拉·帕琳和她那番自高自大的“死亡专家团”的言论)说服民众去相信白的就是黑的或者黑的就是白的,而且有所成功的时候。
以下是我所相信的别的一些东西:如果你正走进一处非常黑暗的地方——比如《1922》里威尔弗·詹姆斯位于内布拉斯加的农舍——你就应该带上一盏明灯,用它去照亮一切。如果你不想看,看在上帝分上,你又为什么冒险闯进黑暗呢?伟大的自然主义作家弗兰克·诺里斯一直是我的文学偶像之一,四十多年来,我脑子里一直记得他就这个议题说过的话:“我从不谄媚,我从不脱帽向时尚致敬,从不伸出帽子为着讨些银子。以上帝的名义发誓,我把真相告诉了他们。”
可是,斯蒂芬啊,你说,你已经赚了不少银子,至于说到真相……那是个变量,不是吗?不错,我写故事是赚到了一大笔钱,但是钱是个副作用,从来就不是目的。为了金钱而写虚构作品乃是劳而无益的蠢事。当然,读者眼里出真相。然而,谈到虚构,作家唯一的责任就是在自己的内心寻求真相。这个真相不必总是读者的真相,或者批评者的真相,但是,只要它是作家的真相——只要他或者她不屈从,或者不向时尚伸出自己的帽子——一切都好。对于刻意撒谎的作家,对于那些用无法令人信服的人的行为来取代人们真实行为的作家,我唯有蔑视。糟糕的写作不仅仅是句法和观察的问题;糟糕的写作常常源自固执地拒绝讲述人们的真实行为——面对事实吧,比如说,谋杀者有时会帮助老太太过桥。
在《暗夜无星》这部作品中,我已经竭尽全力,记录人们在极端环境下可能做出什么事,以及他们可能如何行事。这些故事中的人物不是没有怀揣希望,但他们承认,哪怕是我们甜美的希望(还有我们对同胞和我们生活的社会怀有的甜美的期望)有时候也可能只是枉然,甚至经常如此。然而,我认为,他们还说,高尚并非常见于成功,而是在于努力去做正当之事……而一旦我们没有去做或者刻意回避困难的时候,地狱就随之而来。
《1922》受到题目叫做《威斯康辛死亡之旅》的一本非虚构书的启发,此书是迈克·莱斯创作的,以拍摄到的威斯康辛州黑河瀑布小城的照片为主。这些照片传递出来的农村远离尘嚣、许多人物脸上流露的冷峻和贫困给我留下了印象。我要在我的故事中获得那种感觉。
二〇〇七年,我行驶在84号州际公路,前往麻省西部地区的一次签书活动的时候,曾在一个休息区停下,准备吃顿典型的斯蒂芬·金风格的健康饭食:苏打和糖果棒。我从点心棚里出来的时候,见到一位轮胎出了故障的妇女,正在急切地跟一名把车泊在旁边车位的加长拖卡司机谈话。他冲她笑笑,然后从卡车上下来。
“需要帮忙吗?”我问道。
“不,不,我来吧。”卡车司机说道。
我确信,那位女士终把轮胎给换了。我买了根“三个火枪手”巧克力棒,而这个故事的构思终变成了《大司机》。
在我居住的班戈城,有条叫做汉蒙德街支路的通衢大道,环绕机场。每天我走上三四英里的路,要是我人在城里,我就经常从那条路出去。沿着支路大约走上一半,在机场栅栏旁边,有块沙砾铺成的空地,这些年来,许多路边小贩在那里搭起了小店铺。我爱的小贩在当地叫做“高尔夫球家伙”,他总是在春天露面。天气转暖的时候,“高尔夫球家伙”就到班戈市高尔夫球场去捡那些被丢弃在雪地里的成百上千的高尔夫球。他把确实糟糕的球扔掉,余下的就在支路的那一小块空地上出售(他车子的挡风玻璃上画满了高尔夫球——而且画得不错)。有一天,我见到他的时候,脑子里突然冒出《万事皆平衡》的构思。当然,我把故事背景放在德里,那是已故的、无人吊唁的小丑宾尼维斯的故乡,因为德里就是班戈,只是叫法不同而已。
本书的后一个故事是在读完一篇关于丹尼斯·莱德尔,一个臭名昭著的BTK(捆绑、折磨、谋杀)杀人犯的文章之后酝酿的。在大约十六年的时间内,他夺去了十条人命——受害者大多是妇女,但其中有两个是儿童。许多情况下,他把受害人的身份证件邮寄给警察。帕拉·莱德尔嫁给这个杀人狂魔三十四年,莱德尔是在威切塔地区犯案,住在该地区的许多人都不肯相信她竟然能和他住在一起却还不知道他的所作所为。可我相信——确实相信——因此写下了这个故事,来探索妻子突然间发现丈夫惊天骇人的嗜好究竟会出什么事。我写下这个故事,也是为了探索要完全了解一个人是不可能的,哪怕是那些我们挚爱的人这一想法。
打住吧,我想我们已经在黑暗中待得够久的了。楼上倒有个完全不同的世界。只要你抓住我的手,忠实的读者,我会高兴地把你带回到阳光里去。我高兴走到阳光里,因为我相信大多数人本质上是善良的。我清楚我自己就是这样的。
我不能完全相信的反而是你。
缅因州班戈市,二〇〇九年十二月二十三日
暗夜无星 作者:
斯蒂芬‧金 Stephen King
一九四七年出生于美国缅因州波特兰市,后在缅因州州立大学学习英语文学,毕业后走上写作之路。自一九七三年出版第一部长篇小说《魔女嘉莉》后,迄今已著有四十多部长篇小说和两百多部短篇小说。其所有作品均为全球畅销书,有超过百部影视作品取材自他的小说,因此被誉为“现代惊悚小说大师”。
一九九九年,斯蒂芬‧金遭遇严重车祸,康复后立刻投入写作。二○○三年,获得美国国家图书基金会颁发的“杰出贡献奖”,其后又获得世界奇幻文学奖“终身成就奖”和美国推理作家协会“爱伦·坡奖”的“大师奖”。
在斯蒂芬‧金的众多作品中,以历时三十余年才完成的奇幻巨著“黑暗塔”系列(共七卷)最为壮观,也最受金迷推崇,书里的人物与情节,散见于斯蒂芬‧金的其他小说。他的最新作品包括《11/22/63》《暗夜无星》和《穹顶之下》等。
目前斯蒂芬‧金与妻子居住在美国缅因州班戈市。他的妻子塔比莎·金也是位小说家。
Stephen King
Born in Portland, Maine in 1947, he studied English literature at Maine State University and embarked on the road of writing after graduation. Since the publication of the first novel “witch Carrie” in 1973, he has written more than 40 novels and more than 200 short stories. All his works are global bestsellers, and more than 100 film and television works are based on his novels. Therefore, he is known as the “master of modern thriller novels”.
In 1999, Stephen King suffered a serious car accident. After recovering, he immediately began to write. In 2003, he won the “outstanding contribution award” issued by the National Book Foundation of the United States. Later, he won the “lifelong achievement award” of the world fantasy literature award and the “Master Award” of the “Ellen Poe Award” of the American Association of reasoning writers.
Among Stephen King’s many works, the fantasy masterpiece “Dark Tower” series (seven volumes) which took more than 30 years to complete is the most spectacular and highly praised by gold fans. The characters and plots in the book are scattered in Stephen King’s other novels. His latest works include 11 / 22 / 63, no star in the dark night and under the dome.
At present, Stephen King and his wife live in Bangor, Maine. His wife Tabitha king is also a novelist.
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