文學鉅著能拍成經典電視劇嗎？|經濟學人文化

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1.重點單詞

surreal – 超現實的

sprawling – 蔓延的，龐大的

landmark – 里程碑的

proclamations – 宣告，公告

formidable – 艱鉅的，令人生畏的

caricatured – 諷刺化的

scions – 後裔，子孫

kaleidoscope – 萬花筒

entrancing – 使人著迷的

apprehensive – 憂慮的，不安的

verbatim – 逐字的

mundane – 平凡的，世俗的

sensuality – 感官享受

incest – 亂倫

paedophilia – 戀童癖

resonance – 共鳴，迴響

2.片語

do justice to – 公正對待

magical realism – 魔幻現實主義

family tree – 家譜

amber-coloured oil – 琥珀色油

existential kind – 存在主義型別

global resonance – 全球共鳴

3.固定搭配

opt to – 選擇

compress into – 壓縮成

point to – 指向

trace the fortunes – 追溯命運

yield to – 屈服於

draw on – 借鑑，利用

resonate with – 與…產生共鳴

4.文章概述：

網飛最新改編的《百年孤獨》是對加布裡埃爾·加西亞·馬爾克斯經典小說的忠實和雄心勃勃的翻譯。該系列分為16集，首批8集於12月11日釋出。儘管馬爾克斯本人曾認為這部小說無法在螢幕上呈現，但網飛透過在哥倫比亞拍攝、使用全哥倫比亞演員和西班牙語對白，實現了他的部分願望。該劇保留了小說的魔幻現實主義元素，包括時間迴圈和家族命運的重複，並透過 narrator 和verbatim 對白保持了對原作的忠誠。儘管面臨著複雜性的挑戰，網飛的版本仍然捕捉到了故事的奇異和感性，期待帶給觀眾全球共鳴。

5.問題（如何讀完文章能很快回答這幾個問題，證明我們真正讀懂了這篇文章）：

Q1: Why did Gabriel García Márquez think "One Hundred Years of Solitude" would be difficult to adapt into a film?

A: He believed the novel would need a runtime of 100 hours and had to be filmed in Colombia, entirely in Spanish.

Q2: How does the Netflix adaptation handle the complexity of the novel?

A: By telling the story in chronological order and using a narrator, it retains the magical realism and verbatim dialogue from the book.

Q3: Where was the series filmed and what language is used?

A: The series was filmed in Colombia, using an all-Colombian cast and Spanish dialogue.

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Culture | From the shelf to the couch

文化 | 從書籍到劇集

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Culture | From the shelf to the couch

文化 | 從書籍到劇集

Does great literature translate into great television?

文學鉅著能拍成經典電視劇嗎？

Netflix hopes so, with its adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

Netflix將加夫列爾·加西亞·馬爾克斯的《百年孤獨》改編成電視劇，寄望其成為經典

IT WOULD BE hard, Gabriel García Márquez thought, to do justice to the surreal, sprawling tale on screen. By his reckoning, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, his landmark novel of 1967, would need a runtime of 100 hours; it would also have to be filmed in Colombia, entirely in Spanish.

加布裡埃爾·加西亞·馬爾克斯認為，要在熒幕上呈現超現實的鴻篇故事，實屬艱難。他估計，如果把《百年孤獨》這部他在1967年發表的小說代表作搬上熒幕，片長將達100小時，拍攝地須在哥倫比亞，且全程使用西班牙語。

Netflix, with the support of Márquez’s estate, has honoured two of those three proclamations. The streamer boasts that its new adaptation of Márquez’s novel—the first on screen—is “one of the most ambitious productions in Latin American history”. (“Ambitious” is also a synonym for “expensive”: Netflix will not reveal the budget but claims it is the largest ever for a production in the region.) But keeping in mind how much solitude viewers actually want, it has opted to compress Márquez’s novel into 16 episodes, with the first tranche released on December 11th.

在馬爾克斯的遺產管理方的支援下，Netflix已經實現了三項要求中的兩項。這家流媒體平臺自豪地宣稱，這部基於馬爾克斯小說改編的新劇首次搬上熒幕，是“拉美歷史上最宏大的製作之一”。（“宏大”也是“昂貴”的代名詞：Netflix不願透露預算，但聲稱是該地區有史以來投資最大的製作。）Netflix謹記觀眾對電視忠於原著的期待，把馬爾克斯的小說壓縮成16集電視劇，第一部分（前8集）已於12月11日上線。

The book presents a formidable challenge to film-makers for two reasons. One is its status: many think “One Hundred Years of Solitude” was the greatest novel of the 20th century. It helped Márquez to win the Nobel prize in literature in 1982 and has sold some 50m copies worldwide. With affection comes expectation. When the TV show was announced, fans online were quick to express their fears about an oversimplified, “caricatured” retelling.

這部著作對製片人而言是個艱鉅的挑戰，原因有二。一是作品的地位：在許多人眼裡，《百年孤獨》是20世紀最偉大的小說。馬爾克斯憑此榮獲1982年諾貝爾文學獎，該書全球銷量高達約5000萬冊。如此受人喜愛，也意味著人們對改編作品的期待極高。當製作劇版的訊息釋出後，書迷迅速在網上表達了擔憂，擔心改編劇集會過於簡化、誇張化。

Those remarks point to the other test for adaptors, which is the novel’s sheer complexity. Set in around 1850-1950, the book traces the fortunes of the Buendía family across several generations, from the time José Arcadio and his wife, Úrsula, establish the town of Macondo to the moment their last descendant dies, with civil war, modernisation, economic prosperity and ruin in between.

網友們的言論道出了改編編劇面臨的第二大考驗：小說原著本身的複雜性。故事背景設定在約1850-1950年間，追溯了布恩迪亞（Buendía）家族幾代人的命運，從何塞·阿爾卡蒂奧（José Arcadio）和他的妻子烏蘇拉（Úrsula）建立馬孔多（Macondo）鎮，到他們最後一位後代去世，期間經歷了內戰、現代化、經濟繁榮和衰敗等一系列歷史變遷。

Time, in this tale, is a “turning wheel” that yields “unavoidable repetitions”. Male scions are all called some combination of José, Arcadio or Aureliano. (Readers everywhere are grateful to whoever thought to include a family tree at the front of the book.) There are more unusual occurrences, too. Characters die, only to return as ghosts. One man is permanently surrounded by a kaleidoscope of yellow butterflies; another cracks his head open, leaking not blood but an “amber-coloured oil that was impregnated with that secret perfume”.

在這部小說中，時間就像一個“轉動的車輪”，帶來了“不可避免的重複”。家族男性後代的名字都是帶何塞（José）、阿爾卡蒂奧（Arcadio）或奧雷里亞諾（Aureliano）的某種組合。（所有讀者都會感激那位想到在書本前頁附上家譜的人。）此外，還有更多不同尋常的事情。人物死去後，又以鬼魂的形式迴歸。一個人永久地被纏繞在由黃蝴蝶組成的萬花筒般的景象中；另一個人頭撞裂了，流出來的不是血，而是“浸滿神秘香氣的琥珀色油狀物”。

拓展：《百年孤獨》中的“黃蝴蝶”和“黃花”意象：The symbol of yellow butterflies and flowers fluttering from the sky is a recurring image that represents the relationship of the newly dead to the world of the living. It is a sendoff or magical eulogy. When José Arcadio dies in Chapter 7, tiny yellow flowers fall from the sky like rain.

On the page this magical realism, as Márquez’s style came to be known, can be entrancing. The risk is that it could look oddly unconvincing on screen. When Netflix approached Alex García López, a director, about the project, he was excited but apprehensive. “I remember the book having very little dialogue. I remember it being a very existential kind of book and jumping all over the place. I just thought: ‘This is just not really doable, is it?’”

在紙書上，馬爾克斯的這種魔幻現實主義風格令人著迷。但若搬到熒幕上，可能顯得怪異、不真實。Netflix與導演亞歷克斯·加西亞·洛佩茲（Alex García López）對接這個專案時，他既興奮又擔憂。“我記得這本書裡的對話很少，這是一本存在感很強的書，情節跳躍很大。我當時就想：‘做得到嗎，不行吧？’”

註釋：magic realism: a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.

It was. José Rivera, one of the screenwriters, decided that the story should proceed chronologically and that it needed a narrator. It quotes from the novel verbatim. “It was a great way of having Gabo’s voice guide us through the story,” Mr Lopez says, and a way to be “faithful to the book…to its execution, to its style”.

的確很難。編劇之一的何塞·裡維拉（José Rivera）決定，劇情應該按照時間順序，且需要引入旁白，旁白照搬書中的描述。導演洛佩茲說：“由加博（Gabo）的聲音帶領我們走完這個故事是個好辦法”，也是一種“忠於原著……忠於故事表現和風格”的方式。

註釋：加博（Gabo）是加布裡埃爾·加西亞·馬爾克斯的暱稱。

As a result, the film-makers have captured the strangeness of the story, in which events are at once fantastical and mundane. They have also retained its sensuality. At times this makes for uneasy viewing: the novel recounts several incidents of incest and one of paedophilia. “We do not want to rewrite history,” asserts Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s vice president of Latin American content: “That’s the way things happened.” In fact, keeping in Aureliano’s wooing of Remedios, a nine-year-old girl, makes the tale more timely. Only last month Colombia passed legislation prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from getting married.

因此，在那些奇幻而又平凡的事件中，製片人抓住了故事的奇異之處，也保留了故事的感官性。有些情節會讓人不適：小說描述了幾起亂倫事件和一起戀童癖事件。Netflix拉美內容副總裁弗朗西斯科·拉莫斯（Francisco Ramos）堅定強調：“我們不想改寫歷史，事情就是這麼發生的”。實際上，劇集中保留了奧雷里亞諾追求9歲的雷梅迪奧這個情節，在今天看來尤為具有現實意義。就在上個月，哥倫比亞透過立法禁止未滿18歲的人結婚。

To write “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Márquez drew on his childhood town of Aracataca. The novel “couldn’t be more specific and more grounded…in a very specific part of a huge, huge country,” Mr Ramos says, but “because of the way he tells the story it has global resonance”. Almost 60 years later, Netflix is hoping this is true of its version. Márquez’s book, after all, is about history repeating itself.

馬爾克斯的《百年孤獨》取材於他童年的居住地阿拉卡塔卡鎮。拉莫斯指出，這部小說“具體又紮根在一個巨大國度中的一個特定區域”，但“由於馬爾克斯講述故事的方式，在全球引發共鳴。”時隔近六十年，Netflix也希望劇版能延續這一特性。畢竟，馬爾克斯的這部著作，正是關於歷史的輪迴。

翻譯組：

Alex，不務正業的理工男

Ryan，譯海徜徉的一條鹹魚

Lee，愛騎行的婦女之友+Timberland粉

校對組：

Xiao，富春江小翻譯

Lucian，靈魂在傑作中冒險

Shulin，非上上智，無了了心

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