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Lit up by The Luminaries

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We all know the American gold rushes of the mid-19th century. Images from those years leap to mind: somewhere in the Cali-fornian desert, a prospector hammers in wooden pegs to stake his claim. Deep in the Yukon at dusk, a wolf howls in the blue distance, then one by one the rest of the pack join in. Miners huddle round the low-burnt fire, touch their rifles for reassurance. Sergio Leone and Jack London are the laureates of these landscapes. But the New Zealand gold rush? I wasn't aware of its existence until I read Eleanor Catton's vast and intricate novel "The Luminaries", set in the township of Hokitika in 1866. Out of Cat-ton's patient prose emerges a world so completely realised that you feel part of its population. Gold has been found in the sands and rivers of the South Island, and Hokitika teems with speculators, aggregators, bankers and outfitters. Up and down the west coast the diggers toil, delving for the sly glint of ore. Eastwards of Hokitika the land rises into totara forests, rolling hills and clear-watered rivers whose beds are cobbled with "smooth, milky-grey stones that, when split, showed a glassy-green interior, harder than steel" - the sacred Maori stone known as pounamu. And over all of this loom the Southern Alps, ice-capped and incorruptible.
机译:我们都知道19世纪中叶的美国淘金热。那些年的图像让人想起:在加利福尼亚沙漠中的某个地方,一个探矿者用木钉锤敲打他的主张。黄昏时分在育空地区的深处,狼在蓝色的距离里how叫,然后其余的人一个接一个地加入。矿工们round缩在低火中,抚摸着步枪,以确保安全。塞尔吉奥·利昂(Sergio Leone)和杰克·伦敦(Jack London)是这些风景的得奖者。但是新西兰淘金热吗?直到我读了埃莉诺·卡顿(Eleanor Catton)1866年在霍基蒂卡(Hokitika)乡镇上创作的庞大而复杂的小说《发光》(The Luminaries)之前,我才意识到它的存在。从卡顿的耐心的散文中浮现出一个世界,这个世界如此彻底地意识到,您觉得自己是其中一部分人口。在南岛的沙子和河流中发现了黄金,霍基蒂卡(Hokitika)充满了投机者,聚集者,银行家和and徒。在西海岸上空,挖掘者辛苦劳作,钻研着狡猾的矿石。在霍基蒂卡(Hokitika)的东面,这片土地升入了托塔拉(Totara)森林,起伏的丘陵和清澈的河水,河床上铺满了“光滑,乳白色的石头,劈开后呈现出玻璃绿色的内部结构,比钢铁坚硬”-神圣的毛利人石头被称为Pounamu。在这片织机上,南阿尔卑斯山全是冰封的和廉洁的。

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    《The economist》 |2014年第8878期|a31-a31|共1页
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