Name: 【TED-Ed】為何你該讀《百年孤寂》？ (Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? - Francisco Diez-Buzo)
Uploaded: 2018-09-20T03:48:05.000Z
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One day in 1965, while driving to Acapulco for a vacation with his family,

1965 年，有一天，在開車前往 阿卡普爾科與家人渡假的時候，

Colombian journalist Gabriel García  Márquez abruptly turned his car around,

哥倫比亞記者加布列 賈西亞馬奎斯突然把車調頭，

asked his wife to take care of the family's finances for the coming months,

請他的太太在接下來幾個月 處理好家中的財務，

The beginning of a new book  had suddenly come to him:

“Many years later,  as he faced the firing squad,

「許多年後，當他面對著行刑隊，

Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember  that distant afternoon

倭良諾邦迪亞上校憶起了 很久以前的那個午後，

when his father took him to discover ice.”

those words would blossom  into One Hundred Years of Solitude.

那些文字開花結果 成了《百年孤寂》。

A novel that would go on  to bring Latin American literature

這本小說接下來把 拉丁美洲文學帶到了

to the forefront  of the global imagination,

earning García Márquez  the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.

讓賈西亞馬奎斯贏得了 1982 年的諾貝爾文學獎。

What makes One Hundred Years of Solitude  so remarkable?

《百年孤寂》為何如此了不起？

The novel chronicles the fortunes and misfortunes

of the Buendía family  over seven generations.

它有著很豐富又很細膩的文句，

One Hundred Years of Solitude  is not an easy book to read.

所以，《百年孤寂》並不是 很容易讀的一本書。

with an epic assortment  of intense romances,

and more characters  named Aureliano than you'd think possible.

還有一大堆叫倭良諾的角色， 多到你無法想像。

One Hundred Years of Solitude  is one of the most famous examples

《百年孤寂》是所謂的 「魔幻寫實主義」

of a literary genre  known as magical realism.

這個文學類別當中 最著名的例子之一。

are described in a realistic  and matter-of-fact tone,

while the real events of human life  and history

reveal themselves  to be full of fantastical absurdity.

Surreal phenomena within the fictional village of Macondo

在虛構的村落「馬康多」 裡的超現實現象

intertwine seamlessly with events taking place in the real country of Colombia.

和真實國家哥倫比亞 所發生的事件無縫地交織在一起。

The settlement begins  in a mythical state of isolation,

這個殖民地一開始是處於 神話般的孤立狀態，

but is gradually exposed  to the outside world,

facing multiple calamities along the way.

As years pass,  characters grow old and die,

很多年過去了，角色長大並過世，

or to be seemingly reincarnated  in the next generation.

似乎就是投胎轉世到下一個世代。

When the American fruit company  comes to town,

so does a romantic mechanic who is always followed by yellow butterflies.

一個浪漫的技工也來了， 總是有黃色蝴蝶跟在他身邊。

Although the novel moves forward  through subsequent generations,

雖然這本小說是透過 後續的世代繼續向前走下去，

時間的移動則幾乎是循環式的。

Many characters have similar names  and features to their forebears,

許多角色都有和其祖先 類似的名字和特徵，

他們也常會重覆 其祖先犯過的錯誤。

Strange prophecies  and visits from mysterious gypsies

奇怪的預言和神秘吉普賽人的造訪

give way to the skirmishes  and firing squads of repeated civil wars.

讓步給小衝突及重覆 發生之內戰的行刑隊。

An American fruit company opens  a plantation near the village

一間美國水果公司在村落附近 開了一個種植園，

and ends up massacring thousands  of striking workers,

最後卻屠殺了數千名罷工工人，

mirroring the real-life  'Banana Massacre' of 1928.

反映出現實中在 1928 年 發生的「香蕉大屠殺」。

Combined with the novel's magical realism,

和這本小說的魔幻寫實主義結合，

this produces a sense  of history as a downward spiral

所產生的歷史感像是向下的旋渦，

角色們似乎都沒有能力從中逃脫。

Beneath the magic is a story  about the pattern of Colombian

在魔術背後的故事 和哥倫比亞的模式

and Latin American history  from colonial times onward.

以及殖民時期之後的 拉丁美洲歷史有關。

This is a history that  the author experienced firsthand.

這是作者自己親自經歷過的歷史。

Gabriel García Márquez grew up in a Colombia torn apart by civil conflict

加布列賈西亞馬奎斯在哥倫比亞 長大，當時內戰讓國家四分五裂，

between its Conservative  and Liberal political parties.

內戰的兩方是政治的 保守派和自由派。

and covered the 1958 Venezuelan  coup d'état as a journalist.

以記者身份報導了 1958 年 委內瑞拉的政變。

But perhaps his biggest influences  were his maternal grandparents.

但影響他最多的 應該是他的外公外婆。

Nicolás Ricardo Márquez was a decorated veteran of the Thousand Days War

尼可拉斯里卡多馬奎斯是 在千日戰爭中被授勛的退伍軍人，

whose accounts of the rebellion against Colombia's conservative government

他對於反抗哥倫比亞 保守政府的想法

led Gabriel García Márquez  to a socialist outlook.

讓加布列賈西亞馬奎斯 有了社會主義的觀點。

Meanwhile, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes' omnipresent superstition

同時，多娜特拉奇莉娜依葛瓦蘭 柯提斯的迷信無所不在，

became the foundation  of One Hundred Years of Solitude's style.

成了《百年孤寂》風格的基礎。

Their small house in Aracataca  where the author spent his childhood

他們的小房子所在的阿拉卡塔卡， 是作者兒時居住的地方，

這是創造出馬貢多的 主要靈感來源。

Gabriel García Márquez  found a unique way

加布列賈西亞馬奎斯 找到了一種獨特的方式

to capture the unique history  of Latin America.

He was able to depict the strange reality  of living in a post-colonial society,

他能夠描寫出住在 後殖民社會中的奇怪現實，

forced to relive  the tragedies of the past.

被迫要重新經歷一次過去的悲劇。

In spite of all this fatalism, the novel still holds hope.

儘管有所有這些宿命論， 這本小說仍然抱有希望。

García Marquez reflected  on Latin America's long history

加布列馬奎斯反思了 拉丁美洲的漫長歷史，

國內衝突和不平等猖獗的歷史。

Yet he ended the speech by affirming the possibility of building a better world,

然而，在演說的最後，他肯定 還是有可能建造出更好的世界，

to quote, “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die,

引述他的話：「在那裡，沒有人能 幫其他人決定他們要如何死亡，

and where the races condemned  to one hundred years of solitude

在那裡，被詛咒了百年孤寂的種族，

will have, at last and forever, a second chance on earth."

最終且永遠，會得到 在地球上的第二次機會。」

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