从西方解读偏好看中国科幻作品的海外传播——以刘慈欣《三体》在美国的接受为例
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  • 英文篇名:Overseas Reception of Chinese Science Fiction and Preference of Western Readership as Exhibited by the Reception of Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem in US
  • 作者:刘舸 ; 李云
  • 英文作者:Liu Ge;Li Yun;
  • 关键词:刘慈 ; 《三体》 ; 科幻小说 ; 海外传播
  • 英文关键词:Liu Cixin;;The Three-Body Problem;;science fiction;;overseas reception
  • 中文刊名:ZBJW
  • 英文刊名:Comparative Literature in China
  • 机构:湖南大学文学院;湖南铁路科技职业技术学院;
  • 出版日期:2018-04-20
  • 出版单位:中国比较文学
  • 年:2018
  • 期:No.111
  • 语种:中文;
  • 页:ZBJW201802013
  • 页数:14
  • CN:02
  • ISSN:31-1694/I
  • 分类号:141-154
摘要
2015年刘慈欣凭借《三体1》获得世界性科幻大奖雨果奖,《三体1》英文版目前已经卖出超过20万本,这几乎是其他中国小说在美销量的数百倍。通过对Goodreads和美国亚马逊图书网站海外读者对《三体》的评价做定性定量分析,发现《三体》能打入海外市场,在于作品适应了海外读者的多种兴趣点。对人类终极命题的思考、"科幻迷"对科学的憧憬与想象、文学审美的熟悉感和认同感、不同意识形态引发的文化好奇、流畅的翻译等因素是《三体》获得海外读者青睐的主要原因。本文试图从海外读者解读偏好来多面地观照世界文学版图中的刘慈欣创作,为中国当代科幻文学的创作及海外传播提供某些借鉴。
        Liu Cixin won Hugo Award for his Three-Body Problem,I in 2015.The English version of the novel has been sold over 200 thousand copies,which is hundreds of times more than other Chinese novels in US.Goodreads and Amazon showthat Three-Body Problem is popular with the overseas readership because of its meditation on human being's ultimate existence,scientific imagination,literary familiarity and identification,curiosity for different ideology,and good translation.The paper is to study his popularity with overseas readership to provide some reference for the creation and overseas reception of Chinese science fiction.
引文
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    (2)详见杨帆、张杰:“‘脸书’创始人迷上《三体》扎克伯格成刘慈欣粉丝”,《人民网》,2015年10月24日。人民日报社,2017年1月22日。〈http://media.people.com.cn/n/2015/1024/c40606-27734832.html.date=2015/10/24〉.
    (3)这一评价在不同媒体中有不同版本,本文评价来自严锋:“从这里到永恒”,《南方都市报》2010年10月17日。
    (1)笔者自译于Dario Cannizzaro.Goodreads.13 March.2015.Goodreads Inc.21September.2017.〈https://www.Goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem?ac=1&from_search=true.date=2015/3/13〉。后文凡未加以说明的引文均为笔者自译。
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    (3)此语引自英文版《三体》(The Three-Body Problem)的图书封面推荐,原文为:“Vivid imaginative,and rooted in cultting-edge science.The Three-Body Problem ponders several Big Questions of our time.Liu Cixin stands at the top tier of speculative fiction authors in any language.”参见Cixin Liu:The Three-Body Problem(First Edition).Trans.Ken Liu.New York:Tor Books,11 November,2014。
    (4)在和科学史家江晓原谈话的节目中,刘慈欣问:如果他们不得不为了生存去吃人,是否可以把我们3人吃了(刘慈欣,2014:42)。
    (1)转引自“美国人眼中的《三体》”,《全媒派》2015年8月24日.深圳市腾讯计算机系统有限公司,2016年4月22日。〈http://news.qq.com/original/dujiabianyi/threebodyproblem.html.date=2015/8/24〉。
    (1)贺绍俊在2010年7月10日参加东北石油城大庆市举办的“文学类型化及类型文学研讨会”上发表的观点。
    (2)科幻小说的概念作为一种“选择性系统”,源自Andrew Milner:“Science Fiction and the Literary Field,”SFS 38:3(November 2011):395。
    (3)Rob.Goodreads.9 October.2014.Goodreads Inc.21September.2017〈https://w w w.Goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem?ac=1&from_search=true.date=2014/10/9〉.
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    (2)这句话转引自“美国人眼中的《三体》”,《全媒派》2015年8月24日。深圳市腾讯计算机系统有限公司2016年4月22日.〈http://news.qq.com/original/dujiabianyi/threebodyproblem.html.date=2015/8/24〉。
    (3)此语引自英文版《黑暗森林》(The Dark Forest)的图书封面推荐,原文为:“Liu's successfully interw eaves hard science and adventure in this series debut.”Cixin Liu:The Dark Forest(Translation Edition).Trans.Joel Martinsen.New York:Tor Books,11 August,2015。
    (4)此语引自英文版《黑暗森林》(The Dark Forest)的图书封面推荐,原文为:“Fans of hard Sf will revel in this intricate and imaginative novel by one of China most celebrated genre writers.”Cixin Liu:The Dark Forest(Translation Edition)Trans.Joel Martinsen.New York:Tor Books,August 11,2015。
    (1)刘慈欣多次在媒体面前说:“我所有的一切作品都是对阿瑟·克拉克最拙劣的模仿。”参见李福莹:“刘慈欣:我是一个作家,更是一个科幻迷”,《深圳晚报》2014年8月2日“慢读星期六”专刊。
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    (3)此语引自英文版《死神永生》(Death’S End)的图书封面推荐,原文为“The Three-Body Problem tomes chronicle a march of the human race into the universe set against the recent past,the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution.It is a classic science fiction story in the style of the British master Arthur C.Clarke.”Cixin Liu(Author),Ken Liu(Translator):Death's End(Translation Edition).New York:Tor Books,20 September,2016.
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    (3)此语引自英文版《三体》(The Three-Body Problem)的图书封面推荐,原文为:“Cixin Liu brings to the reader a deep and insightful vision of China past and future.First-rate w ork by a pow erful new voice.”Cixin Liu:The Three-Body Problem(First Edition).Trans.Ken Liu.New York:Tor Books,11 November,2014。
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