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[讨论]改编大不同——从获奖的《HANSEL AND GRETEL》说起(完)

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楼主:艾斯苔尔 2005-08-25

格林童话《汉赛尔与格莱特》改编绘本对比篇图片占位:http://211.147.4.173/home/UserFiles/01/02/51/14/album/1025114_1124955775171.jpg

说明:

1.为了对比的方便,我将按照绘本的文字模式来讨论这个改编。先是把原来的文字罗列上来,后面是分析绘本版与文字版的不同之处。划粗体的部分是绘本版和文字版有区别的地方。

2.我参照的文字版格林童话版本是“Text and drawing copyright©1972 Random House, from the Pantheon book The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales”,绘本版的文字由RIKA LESSER撰写。

这个绘本恰好网上有全本,效果不是很好,整体色调比原书要亮太多。

阅读地址如下:http://www.scancoo.com/sqs_Hansel&Gretel_PaulOZelinsky/html/image1.htm

4. 英文文字版阅读:http://www.mordent.com/folktales/grimms/hng/hng.html

中文文字版阅读:http://www.white-collar.net/child/fairy_tale/gl/015.htm

以下进入正文:

01-02

HARD BY a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread. Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife: "What is to become of us? How are we to feed our poor children, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves?" "I'11 tell you what, husband," answered the woman, "early to-morrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest; there we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them." "No, wife," said the man, "I will not do that; how can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest--the wild animals would soon come and tear them to pieces." "0, you fool!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger, you may as well plane the planks for our coffins," and she left him no peace until he consented. "But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same," said the man.

01-02

这是前两页的内容,因为在文字版中,这两页的文字部分内容比较紧密,所以就合并在一起说说看。

加粗体的文字是文字版和绘本版不太一样的地方。第一个地方“when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread”,这是绘本版完全删掉的内容,在原来的故事里,有一个大背景。也就是某一年收成不好的时候,这个伐木工赚不到钱了,才连每天吃的面包也没办法买。但是绘本里只有结果的交代,只是简单的说,他没办法维持一家四口的生计了。

去掉这个背景,一个可能是为了精简文字,另一个可能则是让这个故事更为普遍——没有饥荒的年份里,这样的事情也不是不可能的。

03-04

The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Gretel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel: "Now all is over with us." "Be quiet, Gretel," said Hansel, "do not distress yourself, I will soon find a way to help us." And when the old folks had fallen asleep, he got up, put on his little coat, opened the door below, and crept outside. The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies. Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in. Then he went back and said to Gretel: "Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us," and he lay down again in his bed.

03-04

这部分里,有一个非常重要的细节,是绘本版里删掉的。先说两个小的改动:

1.文字版的妹妹不但哭泣起来,而且说了一句非常悲观的话“这下我们全完蛋了。”绘本没有那句话。

2.第二个地方就是细节描写部分,绘本版去掉了。

最大的改动出在孩子们母亲的身份上,文字版里,母亲早已死去,现任的是继母,而绘本版里,母亲就是亲生母亲,完全没有提及后母这回事。

如果联系最开始的去掉大背景的细节,可以推测出,绘本版的文字作者,应该是在努力营造一个更理性,或者说的极端一点,更“冷酷”的效果。想想看,不知什么灾祸一家人就可能断粮,根本不用等到饥荒年代;不用继母,亲生母亲也会轼子。

#2 艾斯苔尔 2005-08-25

05

When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: "Get up, you sluggards! We are going into the forest to fetch wood." She gave each a little piece of bread, and said: "There is something for your dinner, but do not eat it up before then, for you will get nothing else." Gretel took the bread under her apron, as Hansel had the pebbles in his pocket. Then they all set out together on the way to the forest. When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again. His father said: "Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind for? Pay attention, and do not forget how to use your legs." "Ah, father," said Hansel, "I am looking at my little white cat, which is sitting up on the roof, and wants to say good-bye to me." The wife said: "Fool, that is not your little cat, that is the morning sun which is shining on the chimneys." Hansel, however, had not been looking back at the cat, but had been constantly throwing one of the white pebble-stones out of his pocket on the road.

除了把猫这个英文单词说的更口语化以外,基本没有大的改动。

06-07

When they had reached the middle of the forest, the father said: "Now, children, pile up some wood, and I will light a fire that you may not be cold." Hansel and Gretel gathered brushwood together, as high as a little hill. The brushwood was lighted, and when the flames were burning very high, the woman said: "Now, children, lay yourselves down by the fire and rest, we will go into the forest and cut some wood. When we have done, we will come back and fetch you away."

Hansel and Gretel sat by the fire, and when noon came, each ate a little piece of bread, and as they heard the strokes of the wood-axe they believed that their father was near. It was not the axe, however, but a branch which he had fastened to a withered tree which the wind was blowing backwards and forwards. And as they had been sitting such a long time, their eyes closed with fatigue, and they fell fast asleep. When at last they awoke, it was already dark night. Gretel began to cry and said: "How are we to get out of the forest now?" But Hansel comforted her and said: "Just wait a little, until the moon has risen, and then we will soon find the way."

这段里面,没有太大改动,只是去掉了一些细节,精简文字而已。

1.去掉父亲让孩子们收集木柴的细节。

2.去掉他们困倦的睡着的细节。

#3 小筱小筱 2005-08-25

包子好认真啊

要是这样的改编绘本在国内多出现一些就好了,在书店里看到的只有那些改得糟糕的图画书

#4 水水蜘蛛 2005-08-27

好严谨的作者!
还是觉得文字版和绘本版各有特色。
像文字版的那个“是风在吹啊”我就很喜欢,觉得是神来之笔。
孩子聪明也是孩子啊~面对吃,和刚刚经受的惊吓饥饿,面对眼前的片刻享受,生出得过且过的思想是非常正常的。
而且这个民间童话是蕴藏教育意义的,就是说,孩子的一些本我,比如贪吃,是很容易把人引入困境的。
不过我最喜欢风吹一句的原因是——它放松了读者紧张的心情,让人读到这里的时候会心一笑,呵呵,真是小孩子啊。
反正我总是觉得这些所谓的“枝枝蔓蔓”满有趣的,比如,格林童话有个很有名的故事,原作结尾的时候有这样一句“一只灰色的大兔子跑了过去,谁能抓住它,肯定能做一个很好的大皮帽子!”每次看到这个和故事不搭届的句子,我都要笑得翻过去,好玩啊好玩啊!!!

绘本的图看了,觉得作者的确满严谨的,和那个莴苣的画风很像啊。故事的最后一页,我怎么没有看到那只猫呢??