Babel: Or, the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution (Collector's Ed.) | 誠品線上

巴別塔學院

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內容簡介 R. F. Kuang 的《紐約時報》即時暢銷冠軍小說，現已推出精裝豪華收藏版，採用燙金仿皮書封、精美插圖扉頁、書籤絲帶、噴漆書邊，以及 Nico Delort 繪製的精緻黑白內頁插圖。《巴別塔》是在主題上對《校園秘辛》（The Secret History）的回應，在語調上對《英倫魔法師》（Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell）的反駁；它探討了學生革命、殖民抵抗，以及將語言和翻譯作為大英帝國統治工具的使用。「翻譯即背叛」（Traduttore, traditore）：翻譯的行為永遠是一種背叛的行為。1828 年，在廣州因霍亂而成為孤兒的羅賓·斯威夫特，被神秘的洛弗爾教授帶往倫敦。在那裡，他接受了多年拉丁語、古希臘語和中文的訓練，一切都是為了進入牛津大學頂尖的皇家翻譯學院——即眾所周知的「巴別塔」——做準備。巴別塔是世界的翻譯中心，更重要的是，它是魔法中心。「銀工」（Silver working）——一種利用附魔銀條將翻譯中流失的意義顯現出來的藝術——讓英國擁有無與倫比的力量，其知識支撐著帝國對殖民擴張的追求。對羅賓而言，牛津是致力於追求知識的烏托邦。但知識服膺於權力，作為一名在英國長大的中國男孩，羅賓意識到服務於巴別塔就意味著背叛祖國。隨著學業進展，羅賓發現自己受困於巴別塔與影子組織「赫密斯學會」之間，後者致力於阻止帝國擴張。當英國為了白銀與鴉片與中國展開一場不義之戰時，羅賓必須決定……強大的體制可以從內部改變嗎？還是革命總是需要暴力？R. F. Kuang's instant #1 New York Times bestselling novel is now available as a stunning Deluxe Collector's Edition featuring a stamped faux-leather case with gold foil, beautiful illustrated endpapers, bookmark ribbon, designed edges, and intricate interior black-and-white illustrations from Nico Delort. Babel is a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel.Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

作者介紹

作者介紹 R. F. Kuang（匡靈秀）《紐約時報》暢銷榜第一名作家，擁有劍橋大學與牛津大學的雙碩士學位，目前在耶魯大學攻讀博士。她以《罌粟戰爭》（The Poppy War）三部曲成名，而《巴別塔》則確立了她在奇幻與歷史文學領域的卓越地位，獲獎無數。Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.

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最佳賣點 : R. F. Kuang 的《紐約時報》即時暢銷冠軍小說，現已推出精裝豪華收藏版，採用燙金仿皮書封、精美插圖扉頁、書籤絲帶、噴漆書邊，以及 Nico Delort 繪製的精緻黑白內頁插圖。