我翻譯過AldousHuxley的《時間必須有個終結》（Time
Must Have a Stop），典出《亨利四世上》 (待出版)…..，他是位百科全書型才子。他至少寫過30本書， 國人多半只知道他的小說《美麗新世界》（Brave New World），對他的了解很片面。現在市面上還有他的小說《旋律的配合》 (Point Counter Point) (上海：譯文，2002)。
“Generalized
intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of
dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective
democracy.”
BKikkoman Corporation has established the Kikkoman Institute for International Food Culture (KIIFC) as part of the commemorative events celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of our company. The purpose of the Institute is to conduct research, promote cultural and social activities, and collect and disseminate information regarding soy sauce, a fermented seasoning.
紀念公司 80周年慶的「國際食文化研究展覽中心」Kikkoman Institute for International Food Culture ( 「キッコーマン国際食文化研究センター」は創立80周年記念事業の一環として設立いたしました。
食の国際交流と豊かな食生活をめざして )
我們特別關心他們對於醬油風味輪之研究第一圖參考中文： Flavor Profile and Flavor Wheel ：
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Kikkoman Corporation has established the Kikkoman Institute for
International Food Culture (KIIFC) as part of the commemorative events
celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of our company. The
purpose of the Institute is to conduct research, promote cultural and
social activities, and collect and disseminate information regarding soy
sauce, a fermented seasoning.
紀念公司80周年慶的「國際食文化研究展覽中心」Kikkoman Institute for International Food Culture (「キッコーマン国際食文化研究センター」は創立80周年記念事業の一環として設立いたしました。
食の国際交流と豊かな食生活をめざして)
我們特別關心他們對於醬油風味輪之研究第一圖 參考中文： Flavor Profile and Flavor Wheel ：
With a cast of more than 400 characters, this episodic novel written in the
vernacular rather than classical Chinese tells of two branches of an
aristocratic family with a tragic love story at its humane heart. Chairman
Mao admired its critique of feudal corruption.
A
Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry (1995)
Set during the Emergency of 1970 (a period marked by political unrest, torture
and detentions), Mistry is critical of then-prime minister Indira Gandhi,
although she is never named. Four characters from very different backgrounds
are brought together by rapid social changes.
Rashomon
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1915)
The author of more than 150 modernist short stories, but no full-length
novels, Ryunosuke published Rashomon in a university magazine when he was
just 17. Just 13 pages long, it comprises seven statements regarding the
murder of a Samurai and his wife’s disappearance.
The
Thousand Nights and One Night
Anonymous (First published in English 1706)
Wiley Scheherazade diverts the sultan from her execution with the poetic and
riddlesome adventures of Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad and mystical creatures.
Packing in crime, horror, fantasy and romance, it influenced authors as
diverse as Tolstoy, Dumas, Rushdie, Conan Doyle, Proust and Lovecraft.
Heat
and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)
In this compellingmnovel by the only person to have won both the Booker Prize
and an Oscar, a woman travels to India to learn the truth about her
step-grandmother and her life under the British Raj of the 1920s.
All About H Hatterr
G V Desani (1948)
It’s the glorious mash-up of English and Indian colloquialism that makes this
book, about the son of a European merchant and a Malayan lady, such a wild,
whimsical delight. Anthony Burgess admired its “creative chaos that grumbles
at the restraining banks”.
The
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami (1994)
This labyrinthine and hallucinogenic novel gets going when Toru Okada’s cat
disappears in suburban Tokyo. He consults a pair of psychic sisters who
appear to him in dreams and reality. But although Murakami’s plot meanders,
it never loses its pace or its humanity.
Spring
Snow
Yukio Mishima (1969-71)
Before committing ritual suicide in November 1970, Mishima posted this
tetralogy of novels (named after a dry lunar plain once believed awash with
water) to his publisher. It’s a saga of 20th-century Japan, in which a law
student imagines a school friend constantly reincarnated.
Midnight's
Children
Salman Rushdie (1980)
Magic realism meets postcolonial India in the ambitious, colourful and clever
novel which was awarded the “Booker of Bookers” Prize. Hero Saleem Sinai is
born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947: the second of India’s
independence and is endowed with an extraordinary talent.
The
God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy (1997)
This intense and exquisitely written tale of fraternal twins unfolds against a
backdrop of communism, the caste system, and Christianity in Kerala from the
Sixties to the Nineties. “Change is one thing,” writes Roy in her Booker
Prize-winning debut, “Acceptance is another”.
THE OTHER CONTENDERS The
Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore (1916)
Diary
of a Madman
Lu Xun (1918)
An
Insular Possession
Timothy Mo (1986)
The Holder of the World
Bharati Mukherjee (1993)
A
Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth (1993)
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