黄蜂工厂
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks · 初版 1984 年
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为什么值得读
- 初读带来巨大震撼与深刻反思
- 结构精巧且笼罩着独特的叙事氛围
- 奠定作者后续诸多科幻作品的核心母题
Frank绝非一个普通的十六岁少年，他与父亲隐居在苏格兰一个偏远村庄的边缘。毫不夸张地说，他们的生活方式极不寻常。Frank的母亲多年前不辞而别；他的哥哥Eric被长期羁押在精神病院；而他的父亲则古怪至极，其怪癖之荒诞几乎登峰造极。Frank依靠种种离奇的暴力举动来宣泄内心的压抑挫败。在那些古怪荒诞的日常仪式中，他寻找着片刻慰藉。然而当Eric从医院越狱的消息传来，Frank不得不为哥哥注定的归来未雨绸缪——这一事件终将揭开所有的隐秘与谜
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……读了几章。我几乎从不弃书，但最近弃得频繁了些——上了年纪，在某些事情上确实容易没耐心。我也不确定现在重读《武器的利用》（Use of Weapons）和《黄蜂工厂》（The Wasp Factory）会是什么感觉，当年初读时这两部作品都让我感到极为震撼、立意深刻。所以说啊，人对一件事物的看法可能会变，又或者讲故事本身就像变魔术，需要……
…several chapters. I hardly ever abandon books but have done so more often recently - encroaching age does lead to impatience in some things. I'm not sure how I would feel returning to Use of Weapons and The Wasp Factory, both of which I found shocking and profound the first time around. So the point of this is, your opinion of something might change, or maybe it's just that storytelling is like a magic trick which requires…
他绝对是我最喜欢的作家，没有之一。《黄蜂工厂》是我读他的第一部小说，写得极棒，但《腓尼基启示录》（Consider Phlebas）和《游戏玩家》（The Player of Games）更是彻底把我震撼到了。
By a large margin my favourite author. The Wasp Factory was the first novel of his I read and it was great, but Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games utterly blew my mind.
……给出一个明显错误甚至荒谬的答案；孩子反对并说明理由（“可猫又不会浮起来！”），然后你就能顺势展开一场有趣的苏格拉底式对话。想看这种互动的真正大师级范例，去读读伊恩·班克斯（Iain Banks）的小说《黄蜂工厂》吧（别误会，它不是科幻小说；也千万别去查维基百科被剧透了）。
…obviously wrong or even absurd answer; kid object and says why (“but cats don’t float!”) and you can have a fun little Socratic dialogue. For a true expert level example of this process, read the novel The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (no it is not science fiction and no, do not spoil it by reading Wikipedia)
……有人已经提过尼尔·盖曼的《美国众神》（American Gods）了，但这书实在太棒，我忍不住再安利一次 :) 结构极其严谨，氛围感拉满……伊恩·班克斯的任何作品——《走在玻璃上》（Walking on Glass）、《黄蜂工厂》、《石头之歌》（A Song of Stone）绝对不算轻松的读物，但花时间读读非常值得。他的科幻作品要好读得多，不过……没能让我像读《走在玻璃上》时那么兴奋。非虚构类：——……
…Someone already mentioned Neil Gaiman's "American Gods", but it's so good, I'll mention it again :) Very well constructed and has its specific atmosphere... - Anything by Iain Banks - "Walking on glass", "Wasp factory", "A song of stone" are definitely not light reading, but worth spending some time on them. His science-fiction is much simpler, but... didn't get me as excited as "Walking on glass". Non-fiction: -…
……那种故事里，“心智”（Minds）的谋划要么只能窥见如巨大齿轮般的一角，要么沦为某个残暴的非“文明”（Culture）反派的背景板。顺便说一句，我对班克斯的非科幻作品其实没那么感冒，但如果你对他写的科幻哪怕有一点点兴趣，《黄蜂工厂》都绝对是必读之作——它就像他后来许多故事的概念母版，奠定了他反复探讨的基本母题。
…story where the Minds' machinations are glimpsed only as outsize gear wheels or are the framing device for some sadistic non-Culture villain. BTW I'm not that big a fan of Banks' non-SF work, but The Wasp Factory is absolutely essential reading if you find his SF at all interesting - it's like the conceptual template for a great many other of his stories and sets out basic themes that he returns to over and over.
虚构类：伊恩·班克斯（《桥》；《黄蜂工厂》；《走在玻璃上》；《游戏玩家》）。《安德的游戏》。阿西莫夫。陀思妥耶夫斯基。安·兰德（《源泉》）。西古德·霍尔（极具实力的挪威作家）。非虚构类：军事战略方面的书（孙子、克劳塞维茨；……
Fiction: Iain Banks (the bridge; wasp factory; walking on glass; player of games). Ender's game. Asimov. Dostoyevski. Ayn Rand (Fountainhead). Sigurd Hoel. (excellent norwegian writer) Non-fiction: stuff about military strategy (Sun Tzu, Clausewitz;…