记忆传授人

Paperback, 200 pages

Chinese language

Published Nov. 1, 2014 by 河北教育出版社.

ISBN:
9787554513514

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5 stars (1 review)

记忆传授》是一部科幻小说,描写的故事发生在一个乌托邦世界。在这个世界里,一切事情都在控制之中,们安居业,衣食无忧,没有战争,也没有痛苦的感觉;大家所要做的事情早在一开始就被确定好,没有择,也没有改变的可能。十二岁的乔纳思被定承担一项意义重大的工作,并跟随神秘的、自称“记忆传授”的老*接受训练。在受训过程中,乔纳思逐渐发现,支撑这个完美社会的不过是谎言,于是他决定要改变一切。

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5 stars

Ordinarily, I’m not a huge fan of the YA Dystopian genre. Reading this story, I think I finally realised why that is: they’re all poor imitations of this one!

Just kidding. They’re actually quite different.

In most modern YA Dystopian stories, we’re told “the way things are” over a few pages, early in the story. Most of these stories are also told in the first person (often through the eyes of a teenage girl), and they’re presented in a way that intends to disgust and revolt us straight away. The situation is unequivocably, irrevocably bad, it needs to change as soon as possible, and the protagonist is going to be the one to do it.

You’re told what to think and how to feel about the state of the world.

This story’s different. It’s told in third person, and focusses on Jonas, a regular kid of approximately eleven years old …