《華氏451度》的選擇

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in Ray Bradbury’s Novel Fahrenheit 451

《華氏451度》的選擇

Rob Kaplan

羅布.卡普蘭

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羅布.卡普蘭（Rob Kaplan），美國資深編輯，從事圖書出版行業(yè)達25年之久，1998年以自己的名字命名設(shè)立了一家出版社。他和美國另一位著名編輯哈羅德•拉賓諾維茨（Harold Rabinowitz）合編過《一派書心》（A Passion for Books），收集了愛書人關(guān)于讀書、尋書、借書、藏書的種種故事，有小說，有散文，也有幽默小品，足見其愛書之深。

本文選自1999年出版的《一派書心》。文中提及，美國科幻小說家雷.道格拉斯.布雷德伯里（Ray Douglas Bradbury）為小說《華氏451度》（Fahrenheit 451）設(shè)置了如下背景：千禧年前后，世上書籍面臨滅頂之災(zāi)，愛書人決定通過背誦保存典籍，但每個人的記憶有限，故必須有所取舍。卡普蘭受此啟發(fā)，選出了15本他認為最值得傳誦的書籍。同為愛書人，你又將如何選擇？

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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