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村上春树在耶路撒冷文学奖上的演讲（中英文） Good evening. I have come to Jerusalem today as a novelist, which is to say as a professional spinner of lies.晚上好。今天我来到耶路撒冷，作为一个小说家，也就是说，作为一个以编写谎话为生的人。?　　　　?　　Of course, novelists are not the only ones who tell lies. Politicians do it, too, as we all know. Diplomats and generals tell their own kinds of lies on occasion, as do used car salesmen, butchers and builders. The lies of novelists differ from others, however, in that no one criticizes the novelist as immoral for telling lies. Indeed, the bigger and better his lies and the more ingeniously he creates them, the more he is likely to be praised by the public and the critics. Why should that be??　　　　?　　当然，小说作者们不是唯一说谎的人。政治家们，如我们所知，也说谎。外交官和将军们有时也说着他们那种类型的谎言，就如同汽车推销员，屠夫，和建筑师一样。然而小说家的谎言与其它谎言不同，因为没有人会指责他的谎言不道德。确实，他的谎话越大、他把谎话讲得越精巧、谎言被创造得越像天才之作，大众与评论就越会赞美他。这是为什么？?　　My answer would be this: namely, that by telling skilful lies--which is to say, by making up fictions that appear to be true--the novelist can bring a truth out to a new place and shine a new light on it. In most cases, it is virtually impossible to grasp a truth in its original form and depict it accurately. This is why we try to grab its tail by luring the truth from its hiding place, transferring it to a fictional location, and replacing it with a fictional form. In order to accomplish this, however, we first have to clarify where the truth-lies within us, within ourselves. This is an important qualification for making up good lies.　　　　　　　　　　?　　我的答案将会是这样的：那就是，通过讲述充满了技巧的谎言——也就是说，通过制造看上去真实的小说——小说家可以将真相放到一个新的所在从而让它显得更为清晰。而大多数情况下，要想从原始事态中抓住真相并且将它准确地描述出来实际上是不可能的。这就是为什么我们试着去抓住真相的尾巴，将它从它藏身的地方引诱出来，把它转移到小说式的所在，并且给它换上小说式的形态。然而为了做到这一点，我们首先必须弄清真相藏身于我们、我们自己内部的何处。这是一种创作好的谎言所需要的重要的能力。?　　　　?　　Today, however, I have no intention of lying. I will try to be as honest as I can. There are only a few days in the year when I do not engage in telling lies, and today happens to be one of them.?　　　　　　　　?　　然而今天，我不想撒谎。我会试着尽量诚实。一年之中仅仅只有几天时间，我会不讲谎话，而今天碰