Selection of Novels by Nobel Prize-winning Literature Authors.

Author: Song Zhaolin (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Since 1901, the awarding of the Nobel Prize has been regarded as "a gift left to humanity by a man who sought to promote the cause of human progress and welfare, with the purest idealism as his purpose." However, it has long been a riddle left to the world to decipher how to interpret and execute the will, leading to the claim that "the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature seems to be a history of interpreting a will with ambiguous wording." This mystery has puzzled the world for a century and left the Swedish Academy in a quandary for a century. Theoretically, the Literature Prize is awarded to those "who have created the best works with an idealistic in literature." After World War II, the selection of the Nobel Prize in Literature placed greater emphasis on "literary pioneers" and also believed that only a true portrayal of the value and dilemmas of human existence could be considered a "historically profound idealistic."
As of now, there have been 101 Nobel Prize winners in Literature; the prize will become a permanent and timeless award. This book collects fifty-seven works, primarily novels, awarded from 1901 to 2004. Most translators are renowned experts in translation, with many being specialists in the literature of their respective countries. The translations are mostly direct translations from the original texts, with only a small number being adapted, ensuring high authority.
The author compiled these collections of Nobel Prize-winning literature with the intention of introducing the Nobel Prize in Literature to Chinese readers, including representative and outstanding works of the prize-winning authors, the reasons for their awards, their biographies, historical backgrounds, literary concepts, literary achievements, and creative experiences. This is intended to provide Chinese readers with material for appreciation and reference, allowing them to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Nobel Prize. Additionally, it enables readers to further explore the state of the world literary scene since the 20th century and the evolution of literary trends, thereby gaining inspiration and benefits.
This book is divided into two volumes, collecting fifty-seven works of fifty-seven prize-winning authors from 1901 to 2005, primarily short and medium-length fiction, with some excerpts from full-length novels. Among the selected works, except for a small number that are adapted, the majority are direct translations from the original texts. The novels include works in English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Greek, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, and Bengali. The translators are mostly renowned experts in translation and research in the literature of their respective countries.