For the past 120 years, readers of English have known only a poor imitation of Jules Verne's classic French novel Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers and consequently relegated the writer to the category of a "boy's author." Since 1873 the standard English version has been Lewis Mercier's mangled "translation," a work that's filled with errors, mistranslations, and bogus additions, and missing nearly a quarter of Verne's original text.
Now, thanks to the life-long efforts of two Verne scholars, the English-speaking world at last has access to a definitive translation, the only English version based solely on the level of literary artist and scientific visionary, a category he has always enjoyed in Europe and Russia.
Mercier's act of literary vandalism went unnoticed until 1965, when New York University English professor Walter Miller discovered the missing text and began the restoration of the Verne masterpiece. After nearly thirty years of work, including rigorous examinations of his translation by experts in marine technology and biology, Miller teamed that Frederick Paul Walter in 1992 to create this landmark scientific and literary achievement.
Restored to the volume along with the original woodcut illustrations are the entertaining and often prescient drams of Captain Nemo, widely considered the prototypical science-fiction character. In this novel alone Verne has anticipated submarine diving planes, scuba gear, underwater laboratories, and marine ecological disasters. He also inspired large-scale underwater mining and farming of flora and fauna, and electricity from thermoclines, all currently in development.
Restoration of these visionary ideas and some twenty-three percent of the original text is certain to elevate Verne's standing in American scientific and literary circles.
一、 有关“探险” 阿龙纳斯、康塞尔、尼德•兰,机缘巧合,来到尼摩的潜艇上,随鹦鹉螺号展开海底航行。潜艇船身坚固,利用海洋中大量的氯化钠分解出来的钠发电。他们从太平洋出发,经过珊瑚岛、印度洋、红海、进入地中海、大西洋,看到许多罕见的海生动植物和水中的...
评分凡尔纳《海底两万里》(Vingt mille lieues sous les mers,1870),书中那艘神秘的潜艇名叫 “Nautilus”,除了1961年曾觉之老先生的译本音译作『诺第留斯号』,其它汉译本一般译作 『鹦鹉螺号』。 这是一个不太容易被察觉的误译:此处的 Nautilus,并非是动物分类学意义上的...
评分突然发现我看的是译林的版本...之前都没发觉...先汗一个... 印象很深的是尼摩船长面对大海的眼神,当然很多是自己加上去的想象,就像荒野中一人,面对灰暗的惊涛骇浪,岿然不动,带这冷漠的眼神和冷漠的脸色。再有就是他最后在攻击的时候,那番话,那种激动,让我觉得有一种压...
评分尼摩船长,一个孤独、博学、自信、愤世嫉俗的人,给我留下了深刻的印象。虽然小说中没有具体描绘他的遭遇,但可想而之,他一定是在社会中,遭到社会的迫害和排挤,不满社会现实和人情冷漠,才制造了鹦鹉螺号。为了避世也好,为了报复也好,都只是科幻小说中的情节,让人羡慕...
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