纳尼亚传奇Ⅵ魔法师的外甥(The Chronicles of Narnia Ⅵ The Magician’s Nephew)简介:
The Magician's Nephew is a fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis. It
was the sixth book published in his The Chronicles of Narnia series, but is the
first in the chronology of the Narnia novels' fictional universe.
The novel begins in London in the early 1900s. The principal characters are two
pre-adolescent children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, Digory being the boy
who becomes the Professor Kirke appearing in The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe and The Last Battle. The pair are transported to other worlds by the
magical experiments of Digory's selfish Uncle Andrew and become caught up in the
creation of Narnia and the introduction there of the evil witch-queen Jadis,
antagonist of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Although begun shortly after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the novel
took Lewis nearly six years to complete, and includes a number of
autobiographical elements from Lewis's own life. It explores several Christian
themes, including atonement, original sin, temptation and the order of nature.
The story begins in London around 1900. Two children, Digory Kirke and Polly
Plummer, meet while playing in the adjacent gardens of a row of terraced houses.
They decide to explore an attic connecting the houses, but take the wrong door
and surprise Digory's Uncle Andrew in his study. Uncle Andrew, a bumbling yet
malevolent magician, tricks Polly into touching a yellow magic ring, causing her
to vanish. He then blackmails Digory into rescuing Polly by using another yellow
ring, while giving him two green rings for their return.
Digory finds himself in a wood among many pools of water, and is reunited with
Polly. They discover that jumping into the water while wearing a green ring
takes them to a different universe, and Digory convinces Polly to explore
further worlds.
After marking the pool leading back to Earth, they enter a pool leading to a
crumbling palace among the ruins of the ancient world of Charn. They find a hall
lined with statues of former rulers, progressing from the fair and wise to the
proud and cruel. They also find a bell, marked by a sign that dares one to ring
the bell while warning against doing so. Digory falls for the taunt and rings
the bell against Polly's wishes. Its sound awakens the last of the statues, the
evil Queen Jadis.
The Queen describes a final war between herself and her sister. When defeat
seemed certain, Jadis spoke the Deplorable Word, destroying all life on Charn
and leaving her to become Queen of a dead world. She cast a spell to petrify
herself until the bell was rung. Realising her evil nature, the children flee
back through the wood to home, but Jadis follows and is pulled with them to
London.
Digory and Polly finally succeed in extracting Jadis from London, but their
return to the wood also brings along Uncle Andrew, a cab driver named Frank, and
his horse, Strawberry. Digory leads them into the nearest pool, where they find
an empty blackness, which Jadis recognises as a world not yet created. They hear
singing, which causes stars to appear and the sun to rise. The singer is Aslan,
the great Lion. Aslan breathes life into the world, causing animals and plants
to emerge from the earth. Jadis attacks Aslan, but finding the lion
invulnerable, she flees. Aslan selects some animals to become intelligent
talking beasts, giving them authority over the dumb beasts.
Aslan offers Digory the opportunity to atone for bringing the evil of Jadis into
Narnia, and sends him and Polly upon Strawberry, whom he transforms into a
talking winged horse, Fledge. They fly to a mountain to retrieve a magic apple
from a walled garden where they find Jadis, who has eaten one of the apples,
thereby gaining eternal youth. She tempts Digory to eat an apple or to use it to
cure his dying mother. Although sorely tempted, Digory refuses, believing that
his mother would not condone theft.
Upon their return, Aslan congratulates Digory and tells him to plant the apple.
Aslan then crowns Frank and his wife Helen (whom Aslan has transported from
Earth) the first King and Queen of Narnia. The apple grows into a tree, which
Aslan explains will protect Narnia from the Witch for a time. He also explains
that a stolen apple would have cured his mother, but at a terrible price; and
gives Digory an apple from the tree to save his mother. Upon returning to London
Digory cures his mother with the apple and then buries the core in his back
yard. He also buries the rings around the apple core to prevent their misuse.
The apple core grows into a tree, and years later the tree is blown down in a
storm. Digory has it made into a wardrobe, linking the narrative to the The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in which Digory is the "old professor" in
whose country house Lucy Pevensie finds the wardrobe and the way into
Narnia.故事主角是一位英国男孩狄哥里,由于母亲患病需要照料,狄哥里与母亲来到伦敦亲戚家寄住,但在一次无意间,他跟邻家女孩波莉闯入安德鲁舅舅的秘密阁楼,得知这位舅舅居然是位心术不正的魔法师,狄哥里和波莉被迫参与他的空间实验,戴上魔戒来到神秘的「界中林」。
「界中林」是通往所有世界的中继站,藉由不同水池连接不同世界。在好奇心驱使下,狄哥里和波莉来到另一个快毁灭的世界-查恩,意外唤醒了邪恶女巫贾迪丝,更糟的是女巫随他们穿越界中林来到伦敦。安德鲁舅舅看他们成功返回,证明实验成功。盛气凌人的女巫驱策眼前这位魔法师,准备征服这个世界。女巫在这世界无法施展法术,但力气却更强大,在街头引起骚动,路灯铁架也被她抝断在手中挥舞。狄哥里后悔自自己造成祸患,决定和波莉把女巫送回原来世界。趁乱他们戴上魔戒把女巫带到界中林,没想到却把安德鲁舅舅、马车夫法兰克及马儿草莓都一并带来。当他们再踏入一个水池中,意外来到另一个世界,一个完全空无的世界。
他们来到的这个世界就是纳尼亚,随着远方雄狮亚斯蓝的歌声,纳尼亚王国一点一滴开始创建,狄哥里一行人见证这神奇王国的诞生。在歌声中所有生命快速蓬勃生长,连女巫由伦敦带来的路灯架插入土中都马上变成一盏长年不息的路灯。在这生意盎然的新生地,亚斯蓝挑选某些动物成为「能言兽」,并选中天性仁慈的马车夫法兰克担任国王,亚斯蓝召来法兰克的妻子海伦,让他们共同掌管这个新王国。
此时女巫已逃往王国边境,为了保卫这片乐土,并弥补将女巫带来纳尼亚的过失,亚斯蓝要狄哥里前往西方取一颗神奇苹果来栽种,狄哥里和波莉骑着马儿草莓蜕变而成的飞马「羽生」展开旅程,克服女巫的言词挑拨,无私地取回苹果栽种,保住纳尼亚创建后千年的和平。亚斯蓝让狄哥里取一颗新长成的苹果,回伦敦治好了母亲的病。带回伦敦吃完的苹果核与所有魔戒被狄哥里一同埋藏,后来长成一颗大树,之后木材被建造为一个大衣橱…
这是纳尼亚王国创建的故事,也是所有纳尼亚传奇的开始…