A Dictionary of Maqiao-马桥词典

作者：Han Shaogong

书名：A Dictionary of Maqiao《马桥词典》

中文简介：《马桥词典》，是中国作家韩少功1996年出版的小说，按照词典的形式，收录了其在当知青下放湖南汨罗县村庄马桥弓人的115个词条，这些词汇部分也是作者所虚构或臆想（如晕街）。最早发表于上海文艺出版社的《小说界》杂志1996年第2期，后由作家出版社出版单行本。1999年获《亚洲周刊》评为“20世纪中文小说100强”之一。2003年8月由美国哥伦比亚大学出版社出版了英译本“A Dictionary of Maqiao”。2010年获得美国俄克拉荷马大学美中关系研究所第二届纽曼华语文学奖。

英文简介：From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention–and a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of language–where the word for “beginning” is the same as the word for “end”; “little big brother” means older sister; to be “scientific” means to be lazy; and “streetsickness” is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful characters–from a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite him–A Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language.