_纳尼亚_的作者_C_S_刘易斯.doc

人物春秋 Personal Story C.S. Lewis: The Creator ofNarnia 英国著名学者、文学家C.S.刘易斯 早在60年前就给全世界的孩子们贡献了 一部杰出的巨著《纳尼亚传奇》系列， 它成为第二次世界大战以后英国最伟大 的儿童文学作品。《纳尼亚传奇》七本 书独立成章，你可以分开阅读，也可以 合在一起读。有人曾经这样说：“如果 把这七本书并在一起读，就会感到这是 一部一气呵成的故事。如同我们仰望天 空，先是零零碎碎的一颗颗的星星，看 《纳尼亚》的作者：着看着，就汇集成了一个星座的形状。 《纳尼亚传奇》有只属于自己的太阳、 月亮和星星。” C.S.刘易斯 克莱夫·斯特普尔斯·刘 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly 易斯(生于1898年11月29日，卒 referred to as C. S. Lewis, was a British 于1963年11月22日)，通常被称 writer and scholar. Lewis’s works have 作C.S.刘易斯，是英国作家和学 been translated into more than 30 languages 者。刘易斯的作品已经被翻译成30and continue to sell over a million copies a 多种语言，并保持每年一百多万册的销 year; the books that comprise The Chronicles of 量。构成《纳尼亚传奇》的系列图书卖出了1 Clive Staples Lewis (29 November Narnia have sold more than 100 million copies and have 亿多册，并被搬上舞台，翻拍成电视剧和电影。 been popularized1 on stage, in TV and in cinema. 刘易斯在自传中披露，小时候他对体育运动 His autobiography reveals that he had little 一点儿都不感兴趣，但他是一个如饥似渴的读 interest in sports as a boy and that he was a voracious2 者。还在孩提时代，他就疯狂迷恋上了拟人化的 reader. As a young boy, Lewis had a fascination with 动物，喜欢比阿特丽克斯·波特(注：英国著名 anthropomorphic(拟人的) animals, falling in love with 的儿童文学作家)创作的故事，他还经常自己编 Beatrix Potter’s stories and often writing and illustrating his 绘一些与动物有关的故事。刘易斯和他的兄弟一 own animal stories. He and his brother together created the 起 “创造”了一个叫波克森的王国，里面居住 world of Boxen, inhabited and run by animals. Lewis loved 着各种动物并由动物们管理这个王国。刘易斯喜 to read, and as his father’s house was filled with books, 欢读书，而他父亲的书房里有许多书，他认为， he felt that finding a book he had not read was as easy as 找到一本自己从没看过的书就和“找到一片草 “finding a blade of grass.” 叶”一样容易。 His subjects at Oxford were medieval and Renaissance 他在牛津大学攻读的专业是中世纪和文艺复 English literature, in which he became a scholar, lecturer, 兴时期的英国文学。那一时期，他成了一名学 and tutor of renown. Lewis was a close friend of J. R.者、讲演者和知名的助教。刘易斯是《魔戒》的 OCTOBER 2008 22  R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty(系) at Oxford University. The Chronicles of Narnia