渴望的种子
The Wanting Seed
Anthony Burgess · 初版 1962 年
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“以近未来为背景，《The Wanting Seed》是一部关于人口过剩所造就的怪诞世界的马尔萨斯式喜剧。Tristram Foxe 和他的妻子 Beatrice-Joanna 生活在一个摩天大楼林立的世界里，官方推行的计划生育甚至将同性恋视作崇高风尚。最终，他们的世界陷入了一片混乱：食人宴饮俱乐部盛行、荒诞的生育祭典层出不穷，以及毫无愤怒之情的战争频发。这是一部既荒诞滑稽又冷酷严肃的小说。”
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青少年时期，我在学校图书馆里偶然看到了安东尼·伯吉斯杂食大乱斗般的各类小说，一下就迷上了。它们风格各异、千奇百怪，但读起来都极其过瘾：- 《渴望的种子》（The Wanting Seed）：一本关于人口过剩星球的科幻小说，充满了冷幽默；- 《世界末日新闻》（The End of the World News）：一部音乐剧形式的小说，讲的是托洛茨基在墨西哥的最后岁月，融合了弗洛伊德和毁灭地球的彗星。极其怪诞，但是……
As a teenager I came across the eclectic medley of Anthony Burgess novels in my school's library, and fell in love. They're all so vastly different and weird and yet they made for great reading: - The Wanting Seed: sci-fi about an overpopulated planet, full of dry humor - The End of the World News: a musical about Trotsky's final days in Mexico, mixed with Freud and an Earth-destroying comet. Supremely weird but…
……人们就这么随波逐流了。只有极少数人在逆流而上。甚至连阿历克斯的父母也或多或少被媒体随意洗脑重塑了。伯吉斯之前在《渴望的种子》里就探讨过这种素材，大众能接受的标准翻来覆去地变动。电影把这一点传达得相当到位，我觉得这种表达挺好的。同样，自由意志的问题也讲得通顺。阿历克斯缺乏了那种……
…that people simply went along with it. Only a handful swim against the tide. Even Alex's parents are reprogrammed more or less at will by the media. Burgess has touched this material before in The Wanting Seed, with what was acceptable lashes back and forth. That came through sufficiently in the movie that I feel like this delivery was fine. Similarly, the free will issue came through fine. Alex lacks the…