《华氏451度》的选择

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2019年05月22日

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in Ray Bradbury’s Novel Fahrenheit 451

《华氏451度》的选择

Rob Kaplan

罗布.卡普兰

作者简介

罗布.卡普兰（Rob Kaplan），美国资深编辑，从事图书出版行业达25年之久，1998年以自己的名字命名设立了一家出版社。他和美国另一位著名编辑哈罗德•拉宾诺维茨（Harold Rabinowitz）合编过《一派书心》（A Passion for Books），收集了爱书人关于读书、寻书、借书、藏书的种种故事，有小说，有散文，也有幽默小品，足见其爱书之深。

本文选自1999年出版的《一派书心》。文中提及，美国科幻小说家雷.道格拉斯.布雷德伯里（Ray Douglas Bradbury）为小说《华氏451度》（Fahrenheit 451）设置了如下背景：千禧年前后，世上书籍面临灭顶之灾，爱书人决定通过背诵保存典籍，但每个人的记忆有限，故必须有所取舍。卡普兰受此启发，选出了15本他认为最值得传诵的书籍。同为爱书人，你又将如何选择？

In 1953 Ray Bradbury’s futuristic novel, Fahrenheit 451, was published. It was about a world in which books have been outlawed and the government employs “firemen” to burn libraries and destroy all books (which catch fire at a temperature of 451 degrees Fahrenheit).

The solution of those few insurgents devoted to books was to memorize and actually become the classics they wished to preserve, retelling them verbatim to others. The vision was profoundly disturbing to all book lovers (Bradbury delights in doing that), but it set the editors to thinking: which books would they want to become? These books are not presented as the most important, or the most influential, or the greatest—or any such noble description. They are the books that we feel have become so much a part of us that if we ever found ourselves forced to, we could memorize them in order to preserve them.

1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

3. Night by Elie Wiesel

4. 1984 by George Orwell

5. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

6. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

7. April Morning by Howard Fast

8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

10. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

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