小說原名《Alamut》
作? ? ? 者：Vladimir Bartol
出 版 社：North Atlantic Books
Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with beautiful women, lush gardens, wine and hashish, Sabbah is able to convince his young fighters that they can reach paradise if they follow his commands. With parallels to Osama bin Laden, Alamut tells the story of how Sabbah was able to instill fear into the ruling class by creating a small army of devotees who were willing to kill, and be killed, in order to achieve paradise. Believing in the supreme Ismaili motto “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” Sabbah wanted to “experiment” with how far he could manipulate religious devotion for his own political gain through appealing to what he called the stupidity and gullibility of people and their passion for pleasure and selfish desires.
The?novel?focuses?on?Sabbah?as?he?unveils?his?plan?to?his?inner?circle,?and?on?two?of?his?young?followers?—?the?beautiful?slave?girl?Halima,?who?has?come?to?Alamut?to?join?Sabbah's?paradise?on?earth,?and?young?ibn?Tahir,?Sabbah's?most?gifted?fighter.?As?both?Halima?and?ibn?Tahir?become?disillusioned?with?Sabbah's?vision,?their?lives?take?unexpected?turns.
Alamut?was?originally?written?in?1938?as?an?allegory?to?Mussolini's?fascist?state.?In?the?1960's?it?became?a?cult?favorite?throughout?Tito's?Yugoslavia,?and?in?the?1990s,?during?the?Balkan's?War,?it?was?read?as?an?allegory?of?the?region's?strife?and?became?a?bestseller?in?Germany,?France?and?Spain.?Following?the?attacks?of?September?11,?2001,?the?book?once?again?took?on?a?new?life,?selling?more?than?20,000?copies?in?a?new?Slovenian?edition,?and?being?translated?around?the?world?in?more?than?19?languages.?This?edition,?translated?by?Michael?Biggins,?in?the?first-ever?English?translation.
——what?is?person?permitted阻逮，once?he?realized?that?turth?is?unattainable?and?consequently?doesn't?exist?for?him??——?I?said?if?a?person?realized?that?everything?people?call?happiness，love?and?joy?was?just?a?miscalculation?based?on?a?false?premier，?he?d?feel?a?horrible?emptiness?inside?。the?only?thing?that?could?rouse?him?from?his?paralysis?would?be?to?gamble?with?his?own?fate?and?fate?...
Alamut發(fā)生在第十一世紀的波斯，在那里的阿拉穆特堡壘岳掐，自稱是先知Hasan ibn Sabbah建立他的瘋狂而輝煌的計劃規(guī)則地區(qū)少數(shù)精英戰(zhàn)士都成為他的“生活匕首。”Alamut市創(chuàng)建一個虛擬的天堂丑念，充滿了美麗的婦女，郁郁蔥蔥的花園结蟋，酒大麻脯倚，Sabbah能夠說服他的年輕戰(zhàn)士，他們?nèi)绻麄兟爮乃拿畹竭_天堂。在與奧薩馬·本·拉登推正、Alamut講述了Sabbah是如何能夠讓恐懼統(tǒng)治階級創(chuàng)造一小群奉獻者愿意殺人的故事恍涂，和被殺，為了實現(xiàn)天堂植榕。相信最高伊斯瑪儀派的座右銘：“沒有什么是真實的再沧，一切都是允許的，”Sabbah想“實驗”與他究竟可以操縱的宗教虔誠為自己的政治利益通過吸引他所謂的愚蠢和輕信的人和他們的激情快樂和自私的欲望尊残。
小說以Sabbah為他揭開他的內(nèi)部圈子的計劃炒瘸，和他的兩個年輕的追隨者--美麗的女奴Halima，誰已經(jīng)加入該阿拉姆地球上的天堂寝衫，和年輕的ibn Tahir顷扩，Sabbah最有天賦的拳手。正如Halima和伊本·Tahir成為Sabbah的愿景破滅慰毅，他們的生活發(fā)生意想不到的轉(zhuǎn)變隘截。
Alamut最初是在1938作為一個寓言墨索里尼的法西斯國家。在1960年汹胃，它成為整個蒂托的南斯拉夫最受歡迎的婶芭，在1990年代，在Balkan戰(zhàn)爭期間着饥，它被解讀為該地區(qū)沖突的寓言犀农，成為德國、法國和西班牙的暢銷書贱勃。2001年9月11日的襲擊之后井赌，這本書又有了一個新的生活，在一個新的斯洛文尼亞版銷售超過20000冊贵扰，并被翻譯世界各地的超過19種語言仇穗。這個版本，由Michael Biggins翻譯戚绕，在第一次的英語翻譯纹坐。
什么是人許可，一旦他意識到真相是不可能的舞丛，因此不存在嗎耘子？我說，如果一個人意識到一切人叫幸福球切、愛與歡樂只是一個誤判基于一個錯誤的總理谷誓，他感到一種可怕的空虛，他從癱瘓使只能用自己的命運和命運賭…
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原文非本人所著吨凑，翻譯僅供參考
