Monkey King: Journey to the West | 誠品線上

西遊記

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內容簡介 中國四大名著 吳承恩《西遊記》英文版 ◎中國古典文學四大奇書，第一神怪小說。 混沌未分天地亂，茫茫渺渺無人見。自從盤古破鴻蒙，開闢從茲清濁辨。覆載群生仰至仁，發明萬物皆成善。欲知造化會元功，須看西遊釋厄傳。吸收天地精華而生的美猴王，修行之後練就一身本事，自封齊天大聖，大鬧天宮、掀翻地府。如來佛祖伏了潑猴，將其鎮壓於五行山之下。直到唐代高僧三藏於往西取經路上，才將悟空救出，收為徒弟。途中三藏再收兩名徒弟，皆為被貶至人間的天將－－豬八戒與沙悟淨。一行四人歷經九九八十一難，一路上降妖伏魔，只為取回真經、修成正果……《西遊記》被譽為「四大奇書」之一。以唐三藏至天竺取經的故事為主軸，參考神話、民間傳說、話本等題材寫成。全書文字詼諧逗趣，對當代社會黑暗面極盡嘲諷之能事。作者吳承恩善於雕琢人物性格，並將唐三藏師徒四人的迥異個性詮釋得絲絲入扣，輔以豐富的神話故事，營造出最驚異的情節，讓讀者跟隨唐三藏師徒的腳步，馳騁於想像無限的神怪小說中。提供後世一個取之不盡的創意寶庫，對文學藝術影響至今。本中文書介出自《西遊記》遊目族文化事業有限公司出版Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China’s Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels–which Neil Gaiman has said “is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people”–now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an illustrated foreword by Gene Luen YangA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperA shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature, known to legions of fans of the most popular anime of all time, Dragon Ball, and the world’s largest e-sport, the video game League of Legends. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body’s 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven’s Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only five hundred years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.Joined by two other fallen immortals–Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster–Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Wu Cheng’enWu Cheng’en (c. 1505-1580) was a Ming Dynasty poet about whom little is known, although he is believed to be the author of Journey to the West, which he published anonymously. He lived much of his life as a hermit.

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