Virgin is the peak!Looking back

Author:Shanghai translation Time:2022.09.21

Recently, the new book sharing conference of "Classic Foreign Literature in China on the occasion of the millennium" was held in Beijing.

Writer Miao Wei, Book Designer Xi, and Song Ling Editor Song Ling, and Yao Dongmin, an editor of Shanghai Translation Publishing House, shared the classic literature that has been popular in China and influenced a generation of young people in China on the occasion of the millennium.

Today, the translation of Wenjun shared the wonderful fragments in the event.

At 8 pm on September 26 (Monday), Shanghai Translation Publishing House specially invited the "side ear" team to compile with the responsibility of the "Cloth Classic" series to share the "phenomenon" best -selling classic text charm in the form of reading and conversation. Click to make an appointment:

Miao Wei Song Ling

"Fly King" is the story of the children's establishment of "pecking preface"

Song Ling

Many readers may not be familiar with the author of William Golin, but they must have heard the work of "Fly King". William Gordin is the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983, and "Fly King" is Gordin's masterpiece and debut.

I found a coincidence when I was preparing for this event. Among the four works of the "Flat Classic", all three works were the debut of the writer -the debut is the peak, and the debut is the representative work.

"Fly King" is a masterpiece of Gordin. "Perfume" is a debut of Juskind, and Kitchen Gennana's "Kitchen" is also a debut. This is a pretty interesting phenomenon. The previous generations of writers are so prone to debuts to be able to fight, and it has become an immortal classic that affects generations after generation after generation.

Many Western countries regard "Fly King" as a must -read for middle school students. This novel explores a very heavy theme from the perspective of children: the evil of human nature.

Although this theme is heavy, it is of great significance to shape the three views and understand human nature.

Shanghai Translation Publishing House English editor Song Ling

Gordin shows the true and extreme situations that may appear to the deserted island in front of the reader.

He set up a perfect experimental environment: a desert island, there is no help everywhere, but there are water and trees on the desert island, and they can save themselves. Zhang, unlike adults, may have been polluted.

The various contradictions that they derived on the island had concentrated and severe struggle, which can actually be regarded as a process of human evolution.

Miao Wei

I watched the cartoon "Pig Page" with my son at home. Each time the kindergarten teacher set up a homework and play a game, the piglet Page shouted "I am me". Pig Page had a child called Little Sheep Sussi and shouted "I am". At first glance these two people are the "heads" in kindergartens.

In the process of educating my children, I learned a word called "Pecking Preface", which is the order of chicken pecking. There are always one or two chickens in the chicken group to eat first. After they finished eating, other chickens started to eat, and there was a order of pecking.

When raising the ground chicken, it is generally raised up to 90, and exceeding this number, the life of the chicken group is chaotic. The role of pecking preface.

Children generally have established sequences from kindergartens. A child in the kindergarten class is a "head", and he will occupy a priority when playing toys or sending food. Just like Pig Page, he always raises his hand first, and the teacher will take care of him.

When reading "Fly King", I think this is a process of a group of children flowing to the island to establish such a process of pecking.

Writer Miao Wei (right)

William Gordin is a middle school teacher, as is his father. After Gordin became a teacher for a while, World War II began. He went to the navy to serve, and then went back to the middle school teacher. So there are two sources of this novel. On the one hand, World War II, while participating in the war, thinking, "How did this world become so evil? How did Hitler come to power? Why do you fight?" On the other hand, I saw some disgusting things in school.

We have been students, but not everyone has been a teacher. When we are a student, we always like to give the teacher the nickname to laugh at the teacher.

But we didn't think about it in turn, the teacher must also laugh at us, which students are a bit talented and which students think they are smart. There are also a large number of students called "sediment". These "sediments" are mixed a year, and they are finished after graduating. These people's minds are not suitable for any intellectual life.

Maybe Gordin will think of these students on the battlefield. After returning to the school after fighting, he found that there is no progress in human nature.

Simply put, there are two factions in "Fly King". One is the Ralph faction, which talks about rules. These children want to establish order on this desert island, which is actually the process of establishing a sequence. There is a conch in Ralph's hand. When the sound of blowing, whoever gets a conch, whoever gets a conch, has the right to speak.

The other "head" is Jack, which completely rely on his violence to build a team. His task is hunting, killing wild boars, and bleeding, a child who inspires human aggressive instincts.

The final result was that Jack's faction took advantage and achieved its dominance.

The novel also wrote a child named Simon. He is a particularly sensitive child, a little confused, and a little prophet. There is no "living way" such a child.

I may look at "Fly King" more seriously in the process of raising children. In the future, my child is facing such kindergartens and schools. There will be a small bully in the school, and the "pecking preface" will be established. How can my son be not "killed"? ——S symbolic "death".

This novel is very cruel, basically there is nothing to recruit. You have to find a big brother to cover you, either Balf or Jack. Well, a more sensitive child like Simon can escape the space. This is not bad.

Prior to "Fly King", Britain must have written a bunch of children's deserted island novels. But those novels are still the feeling of children in a civilized society: how can your barbarians kill each other, letting our white children in our civilized society save you and teach you.

Miao Wei Song Ling Yao Dongmin

When you smell the fragrance of the kitchen, you feel like returning to the harbor

Miao Wei

After watching "The Kitchen", I did a homework myself, and I found the novels of the female writer who wrote the kitchen.

There is a novel called "Uncle Tom's House", the author is Mrs. Sito. Her sister is actually the earliest teacher in the United States, and teaches women how to do housework and how to clean up the house. I found that women wrote a kitchen and housekeeping, and there was a writing context.

I saw the most powerful female writer here, and it was also an American, called Halan. She wrote a lifetime, wrote sixty or seventy books, raised five or six children, which was particularly amazing. You can still find the book she wrote and tell you how to do housework.

We can also find Woolf's very famous speech, called "Kill Family Angel". Everyone knows Woolf's very famous speech, called "A Room of his own". There is also a more famous one called "Killing Family Angel".

Song Ling

You may not know what "family angel" means. I was very impressed. At that time, a family had a lot of children. The elder sister wanted to take care of the entire family and take care of my brother and sister. My career may be delayed. Her identity is equivalent to a "family angel", sacrificing her happiness for other members of the family.

Miao Wei

"Kitchen" implies a contradiction.

On the one hand, many people are willing to stay in the kitchen and feel that the kitchen is really a bright and healing place.

On the other hand, in fact, the kitchen's "prison" and "restraint force" are also very strong. If a woman is born to do not like to cook, it seems to be a kind of resistance.

Yao Dongmin

Miao Miao's interpretation of "Kitchen" rose to interpretation of women and humanity, including how to be restrained and how to go out.

I understand that there are two meanings, one is the concept of physical space, and the other is psychological.

In the concept of physical space, the kitchen is actually used to cook vegetables and cooks. There is a place with fireworks. Back at home, there is a bowl of hot soup and a delicious meal. The kitchen is a space for you to soothe.

Yao Dongmin, Japanese editor of Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Psychologically, when you get home from get off work, see a light at home, and see the smoke or smelling fragrance in the kitchen, you can make you feel like you return to your heart harbor. Psychologically speaking, people also have a sense of belonging and stability.

In terms of content, there is no specific cooking or meals in this book, even if the pork row is poured rice, it is not made by itself. But from beginning to end, when people are near the kitchen, they feel particularly at ease.

Song Lingxihe

Design cover is the process of coordinating "not as much as possible"

Song Ling

The illustrations of these four works are invited to the well -known illustrators at home and abroad based on the content and tone of the novel, and then ask the teacher to use the four illustrations to carry out a overall and unified design based on the work. Does Mr. Xihe have any thoughts when designing? You can share it with us.

Xihe

When I heard this project, I felt very difficult. Four responsible editors, four different illustrators, and finally making a set of books. I think I feel embarrassed, I don’t know what the reason is, and I think it is difficult to do. Essence

The lining of the book "Perfume" is a map of Paris, which is also the ingenuity of the editor. Because he said at the time that he wanted to make a trick and didn't want to be white. The location of the story in the book seemed to be near the bridge, and put it in that place.

Designer Xihe

Song Ling

You can study a book. The front and rear lining are all the maps of Paris in the 18th century, and they are careful to think in it. Several other books do not have such exquisite maps to merge. Of course, the cover map of "Perfume" is also the most complicated one of the four books.

Don't think that the fabric can only make clothes, it can also be used on the book. The decoration process of the cloth surface is more difficult than paper hardcover. At that time, in order to print these four books, I ran Yachang several times. There were several types of fabrics on the cover of the cover of the four books. It was found that the effect was very good. Thick and thin, the texture and texture are still different. We choose a moderate thickness.

Song Ling, Xihe Showing the cover proofing

Everyone observed the proofing of "Perfume". We have been sampled several times, and the other three books are satisfied. "Perfume" is difficult to satisfy. The flowers on the cover of "Perfume" are very rich in layers. It is still difficult to print a clear -level feeling. There is also a side face on the cover of "Perfume", which is the protagonist of the novel Greno. In the past, many versions designed the cover with the victims in the novel as the element. This time we still emphasized that we want to highlight the protagonist and put his face in the center of the cover. This is a very complicated picture, which also highlights the complicated image of this novel.

Xihe

Why do I say that this cover is difficult to design. The process with the illustrator's draft is uncontrollable, and I don't know what the manuscript is like. You tell the illustrator, I want this, although the illustrator also does it according to your requirements, but in the end, you may make a different thing, not necessarily as we wish.

Song Ling

Will there be such a situation? The illustrations provided by the editor are different from the effect you imagined, and you are more difficult to coordinate?

Xihe

Still try to try. The most difficulty is this "perfume" because its cover illustration is too full. At that time, if I (to communicate with the illustrator) at that time, he might not let him draw so full. At that time, I was a little bit embarrassed, because the elements of illustrations were in the middle, and it seemed that it could not be put in the word. Chinese and German were not very good.

Song Ling

This is what the designer wants to coordinate. He gets the illustration, feels very satisfied, is well drawn, and is in line with this book. But it is still difficult to achieve a cover.

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