小說原名《Alamut》
作? ? ? 者：Vladimir Bartol
出 版 社：North Atlantic Books
Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with beautiful women, lush gardens, wine and hashish, Sabbah is able to convince his young fighters that they can reach paradise if they follow his commands. With parallels to Osama bin Laden, Alamut tells the story of how Sabbah was able to instill fear into the ruling class by creating a small army of devotees who were willing to kill, and be killed, in order to achieve paradise. Believing in the supreme Ismaili motto “Nothing is true, everything is permitted,” Sabbah wanted to “experiment” with how far he could manipulate religious devotion for his own political gain through appealing to what he called the stupidity and gullibility of people and their passion for pleasure and selfish desires.
The?novel?focuses?on?Sabbah?as?he?unveils?his?plan?to?his?inner?circle,?and?on?two?of?his?young?followers?—?the?beautiful?slave?girl?Halima,?who?has?come?to?Alamut?to?join?Sabbah's?paradise?on?earth,?and?young?ibn?Tahir,?Sabbah's?most?gifted?fighter.?As?both?Halima?and?ibn?Tahir?become?disillusioned?with?Sabbah's?vision,?their?lives?take?unexpected?turns.
Alamut?was?originally?written?in?1938?as?an?allegory?to?Mussolini's?fascist?state.?In?the?1960's?it?became?a?cult?favorite?throughout?Tito's?Yugoslavia,?and?in?the?1990s,?during?the?Balkan's?War,?it?was?read?as?an?allegory?of?the?region's?strife?and?became?a?bestseller?in?Germany,?France?and?Spain.?Following?the?attacks?of?September?11,?2001,?the?book?once?again?took?on?a?new?life,?selling?more?than?20,000?copies?in?a?new?Slovenian?edition,?and?being?translated?around?the?world?in?more?than?19?languages.?This?edition,?translated?by?Michael?Biggins,?in?the?first-ever?English?translation.
——what?is?person?permitted，once?he?realized?that?turth?is?unattainable?and?consequently?doesn't?exist?for?him??——?I?said?if?a?person?realized?that?everything?people?call?happiness，love?and?joy?was?just?a?miscalculation?based?on?a?false?premier，?he?d?feel?a?horrible?emptiness?inside?。the?only?thing?that?could?rouse?him?from?his?paralysis?would?be?to?gamble?with?his?own?fate?and?fate?...
Alamut發生在第十一世紀的波斯，在那里的阿拉穆特堡壘，自稱是先知Hasan ibn Sabbah建立他的瘋狂而輝煌的計劃規則地區少數精英戰士都成為他的“生活匕首。”Alamut市創建一個虛擬的天堂，充滿了美麗的婦女，郁郁蔥蔥的花園，酒大麻，Sabbah能夠說服他的年輕戰士，他們如果他們聽從他的命令到達天堂。在與奧薩馬·本·拉登、Alamut講述了Sabbah是如何能夠讓恐懼統治階級創造一小群奉獻者愿意殺人的故事，和被殺，為了實現天堂。相信最高伊斯瑪儀派的座右銘：“沒有什么是真實的，一切都是允許的，”Sabbah想“實驗”與他究竟可以操縱的宗教虔誠為自己的政治利益通過吸引他所謂的愚蠢和輕信的人和他們的激情快樂和自私的欲望。
小說以Sabbah為他揭開他的內部圈子的計劃，和他的兩個年輕的追隨者--美麗的女奴Halima，誰已經加入該阿拉姆地球上的天堂，和年輕的ibn Tahir，Sabbah最有天賦的拳手。正如Halima和伊本·Tahir成為Sabbah的愿景破滅，他們的生活發生意想不到的轉變。
Alamut最初是在1938作為一個寓言墨索里尼的法西斯國家。在1960年，它成為整個蒂托的南斯拉夫最受歡迎的，在1990年代，在Balkan戰爭期間，它被解讀為該地區沖突的寓言，成為德國、法國和西班牙的暢銷書。2001年9月11日的襲擊之后，這本書又有了一個新的生活，在一個新的斯洛文尼亞版銷售超過20000冊，并被翻譯世界各地的超過19種語言。這個版本，由Michael Biggins翻譯，在第一次的英語翻譯。
什么是人許可，一旦他意識到真相是不可能的，因此不存在嗎？我說，如果一個人意識到一切人叫幸福、愛與歡樂只是一個誤判基于一個錯誤的總理，他感到一種可怕的空虛，他從癱瘓使只能用自己的命運和命運賭…
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原文非本人所著，翻譯僅供參考
