9本外國文學的經典書籍
導語：今天小編整理了9本外國文學的經典書籍，獻給真正熱愛文學的你們。
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1
John le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel
約翰·勒·卡雷《鴿子通道》
The master of espionage fiction offers a memoir of sorts, a series ofmeticulously crafted, witty and enthralling "stories from my life". He describesthe childhood deceptions and losses that launched him, his schooling inSwitzerland, where he made his first "infant steps for British Intelligence,delivering I knew not what to I knew not whom."
間諜小説大師推出自傳體作品，細膩打造“我的生活中”引人入勝的趣事。他描述了童年遭遇的欺騙和隨之而來的失落感，講述了在瑞士的學生時光，正是在那裏，他“邁出了成為英國情報人員的第一小步，把我不瞭解的信息傳遞給我不認識的人”。
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2
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
安·帕奇特《聯結》
In her brilliant new novel, Patchett, winner of the 2001 Orange Prize forBel Canto, traces the consequences of one impulsive act on an American familyover 50 years. She begins with a christening party for Fix and Beverly Keating'ssecond daughter, Franny. Bert Cousins, a Los Angeles deputy district attorney,shows up uninvited with a bottle of gin. By the end of the party, he has kissedBeverly. Patchett creates memorable, complex characters in this exploration ofthe reverberations of betrayal.
在這本絕妙的新小説中，因《美聲唱法》獲得2001年柑橘文學獎的作者帕奇特追溯了一個美國家庭長達50年的歷史變遷，而這一切僅僅源於一次衝動行為。故事開頭是費克斯和貝弗利·基廷的二女兒弗蘭妮的受禮儀式，一位洛杉磯小律師伯特·考辛斯帶着一瓶杜松子酒不請自來。宴會結束時，他已經親吻了女主人貝弗利。帕奇特探究了背叛帶來的巨大影響，並在其中塑造了讓人印象深刻的複雜人物。
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3
Franz Kafka, Konundrum
弗蘭茲·卡夫卡作品集
"Kafkaesque" is "synonymous with the nightmarish, the ominous, and thebureaucratically bizarre," notes Peter Wortsman in the afterword to his lucidand rhythmic translation of a selection of the Prague icon's short stories,parables, letters and diaries.
“卡夫卡式”就是“噩夢般的、不祥的、充滿官僚主義的怪異”，彼得·沃茨曼在後記中如此寫道。這本書收集了捷克代表作家卡夫卡的短篇故事、寓言、信件和日記，而沃茨曼的譯文清晰明瞭，韻律感十足。
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4
Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes
彼得·何·戴維斯《命運》
Davies distills 150 years of Chinese-American history in his timely andeloquent new novel. In Gold, the first of its four sections, Ah Ling, 14, theson of a Hong Kong prostitute, seeks his fortune in California. Silver portraysthe 30-year career of the LA-born actress Anna May Wong, who co-stars withDouglas Fairbanks at 19.
戴維斯在這本如約而至的新小説中用豐富生動的語言提煉了美籍華人150年的歷史。在四章節中的第一章“黃金篇”裏，14歲的阿凌(音譯)，一個香港妓女的兒子，在加利福尼亞開始了追尋財富的生活。“白銀篇”講述了洛杉磯出生的女演員黃柳霜30年的職業生涯，她從19就開始和道格拉斯·費爾班克斯同台演出了。
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5
James Gleick, Time Travel
詹姆斯·格萊克《時光旅行》
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6
Enrique Vila-Matas, Vampire in Love
安立奎·維拉-馬塔斯《戀愛中的吸血鬼》
Barcelona-born Vila-Matas has published more than 20 novels, and won the2014 Prix Formentor. This selection of 19 stories showcases his dark yetwhimsical wit and genre-blending tendencies. In the title story, a desperate manwith two sharp vampire's teeth has a sinful eye for an altar boy. The narratorcalls him "Saint Nosferatu". "Like all those in love", Vila-Matas writes, "he isboth vampire and martyr".
出生於巴塞羅那的維拉-馬塔斯已經出版了20多本小説，並於2014年獲得了福明託文學獎。本書精選的19個故事展現了他黑暗而古怪的智慧和喜歡把多種體裁混雜到一起的寫作傾向。在該書同名故事中，一個絕望的男人長着兩顆吸血鬼尖牙，他總是用邪惡的眼光看着助祭男孩，敍述者稱其為“聖·諾斯菲拉圖”。維拉-馬塔斯寫道：“就像所有戀愛中的人一樣，他既是一個吸血鬼，又是一位犧牲者。”
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7
Ursula Le Guin, The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena, Stories andSongs
厄休拉·勒·奎恩《奧西尼亞：馬拉芙裏那，故事和歌曲》
Le Guin is the second living novelist (after Philip Roth) to be included inthe Library of America. This first volume, with a new introduction andchronology from the author, gathers her early work, before she turned to sciencefiction. The Complete Orsinia offers invaluable insights into Le Guin's genius."My games are transformation and invention," she writes.
勒·奎恩是繼菲利普·羅斯之後第二位在有生之年就被收入美國文庫的小説家。這本最早的書中加入了作者的新簡介和大事記，收錄了她在轉型為科幻小説家之前的早期作品。《奧西尼亞》一書能讓讀者以全新的視角欣賞勒·奎恩的天才，有極高的價值。她寫道：“變形和創造是我的遊戲。”
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8
Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
露絲·弗蘭克林《雪莉·傑克遜：困擾的人生》
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Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians
伊彌爾·麥克布萊德《小波西米亞人》
McBride wowed the literary world with her first novel, A Girl Is aHalf-Formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the firstGoldsmiths Prize, among others. McBride writes of her narrator's tentative firstroles in student plays, and a year of increasing intimacy with an older he describes his own childhood, and twisted relationship with his mother, shestruggles to tame her own most powerful instincts.
麥克布萊德的第一部小説《女孩是半成品》震驚了整個文學界，她獲得了百利女性獎(虛構類)和金匠獎等諸多獎項。麥克布萊描寫了主人公在學生戲劇中嘗試表演的最早的角色，還寫到她有一年與一位年長的演員越來越親密。當他描述自己的童年以及與母親的病態關係時，她盡力壓抑着自己最強烈的本能情感。
