今天一个人无聊在逛第一律法作者乔.艾伯康比的博客，看到了他之前应瑞典Visby小镇图书馆的邀请所写的一封鼓励大家读奇幻小说的信，觉得挺有指导作用的，就想转过来了，信很短，我就简单翻一下了，下面附上原文。翻了后感觉还是原文比较好读……有不妥的地方，请自行跳过吧
I was asked by a librarian in Visby, Sweden, to write a letter of inspiration for their fantasy section that might inspire people to read fantasy books. Thought I might as well re-post it here so that people outside of Visby might also benefit from my inspirationality (that’s a word now). Forgive my unusually pompous tone, if you can…
Dear Readers of Visby.
Fantasy is about myth, magic, monsters, mystery and wonder. It’s a window into other worlds, other times, other realities. Places that have never existed and could never exist, except in the minds of writer and reader.
But fantasy is also a window into our world. A way of talking about us. About the modern world. About the things that are universal to humanity. Love and hate, war and peace, truth and lies, courage and cowardice, victory and defeat, right and wrong and all the grey space in between. About politics, parenthood, money, violence, progress, belief, betrayal, ambition and triumph. About what it means to be a hero. About whether it is possible to be a hero.
And, of course, fantasy wouldn’t be much good if it wasn’t about fascinating, funny, strange, honest, conflicted people getting themselves into terrible trouble. And getting out again. If they’re lucky…
Keep reading,
Joe Abercrombie
之前，一名瑞典Visby的图书馆职员希望我可以为他们的奇幻组写一封推荐信，鼓励读者多来阅读奇幻小说。想来Visby之外或许也有人希望在我的循循善诱下从中受益吧，所以便将它在博客中登出。希望大家可以原谅我接下来有些妄自尊大的腔调了……
亲爱的Visby读者们：
奇幻拥有着神话，魔法，怪物，秘事以及奇观，并向我们展示出另一个世界，另一段时间和另一种现实。它们不存在于历史与未来，而只存在作家与读者的幻想之中。
通过奇幻也同样使我们来审视我们的世界。奇幻就是讲述我们自身和现代社会的一种手段。它包含了我们人类的一切普世价值：爱恋与仇恨，战争与和平，真实与谎言，勇敢与怯懦，胜利与挫败，真实与虚假，以及所有两者之间的灰色地带；它讲述了政治，亲情，金钱，暴力，发展，信仰，背叛，野心与胜利；它诠释了何为英雄，可为英雄？
当然，奇幻的精彩同样离不开它的扣人心悬，妙趣横生，诡秘莫测，忠诚纯厚，困境中人物的绝处逢生（如果作者不是我……）
所以，一本一本地啃下去吧
乔.艾伯康比
Dear Readers of Visby.
Fantasy is about myth, magic, monsters, mystery and wonder. It’s a window into other worlds, other times, other realities. Places that have never existed and could never exist, except in the minds of writer and reader.
But fantasy is also a window into our world. A way of talking about us. About the modern world. About the things that are universal to humanity. Love and hate, war and peace, truth and lies, courage and cowardice, victory and defeat, right and wrong and all the grey space in between. About politics, parenthood, money, violence, progress, belief, betrayal, ambition and triumph. About what it means to be a hero. About whether it is possible to be a hero.
And, of course, fantasy wouldn’t be much good if it wasn’t about fascinating, funny, strange, honest, conflicted people getting themselves into terrible trouble. And getting out again. If they’re lucky…
Keep reading,
Joe Abercrombie
之前，一名瑞典Visby的图书馆职员希望我可以为他们的奇幻组写一封推荐信，鼓励读者多来阅读奇幻小说。想来Visby之外或许也有人希望在我的循循善诱下从中受益吧，所以便将它在博客中登出。希望大家可以原谅我接下来有些妄自尊大的腔调了……
亲爱的Visby读者们：
奇幻拥有着神话，魔法，怪物，秘事以及奇观，并向我们展示出另一个世界，另一段时间和另一种现实。它们不存在于历史与未来，而只存在作家与读者的幻想之中。
通过奇幻也同样使我们来审视我们的世界。奇幻就是讲述我们自身和现代社会的一种手段。它包含了我们人类的一切普世价值：爱恋与仇恨，战争与和平，真实与谎言，勇敢与怯懦，胜利与挫败，真实与虚假，以及所有两者之间的灰色地带；它讲述了政治，亲情，金钱，暴力，发展，信仰，背叛，野心与胜利；它诠释了何为英雄，可为英雄？
当然，奇幻的精彩同样离不开它的扣人心悬，妙趣横生，诡秘莫测，忠诚纯厚，困境中人物的绝处逢生（如果作者不是我……）
所以，一本一本地啃下去吧
乔.艾伯康比
好棒好棒~~有没有兴趣加入到资讯搬运与翻译组的行列来？
