Carmen

and Other Stories

Prosper Mérimée

Oxford World's Classics

法國現實主義作家、中短篇小說大師梅里美經典代表作《卡門》，後由法國音樂家比才（Bizet）改編為同名歌劇而享譽國際。本版另收錄五則梅里美中短篇作品，全書由尼可拉斯．喬臣作序、譯註，另收錄生平、年代記及附錄。

The first in a line of modern masters of the short story, Prosper Mérimée (1803-70) wrote about the dark forces at work beneath civilization's thin veneer.

In Carmen (1845), the tale from which Bizet's famous opera was drawn, Mérimée created a classic literary type: the femme fatale, who exploits her sexuality and air of mystery to ensnare and ultimately destroy the unwary. His other 'long' tale, Colomba, mingles violent action and local colour with an ironic narrative style; Colomba herself is a protagonist of chilling power even greater perhaps than Carmen's.

Five of the stories selected here demonstrated Mérimée's supreme ability to explore the contrast between primitive and civilized values. In Mateo Falcone, a Corsican's conception of honour forces him to exact a ruthless revenge; The Storming of the Redoubt describes an incident in Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign; Tamango depicts a revolt of Negro slaves; The Etruscan Vase is a tale of passionate jealousy set in Paris; The Game of Backgammon is a study in fatal remorse.

Mérimée's own favourite among his stories, The Venus of Ille, is a brilliant tale of the supernatural; Lokis, the last story in this selection, is set in the forests of Lithuania and represents the fiction Mérimée wrote in old age.

■普羅斯柏．梅里美／Prosper Mérimée（1803/09/28–1870/09/23）

法國現實主義作家，中短篇小說大師，劇作家，歷史學家。

Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.

作者：普羅斯柏．梅里美／Prosper Mérimée

翻譯：尼可拉斯．喬臣／Nicholas Jotcham

規格：平裝／Paperback，13 x 19.6 x 2.2 cm，400頁

版本：UK Edition

出版商：Oxford University Press

出版日期：2008年08月01日

語言：英文

ISBN-13：978-0-19-954044-0

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