摘要： 記憶授予者（記憶傳授人 The Giver）記憶傳授人The Giver露易絲·勞瑞Lois LowryJonas's world is perfect. Everythi...

記憶授予者（記憶傳授人 The Giver）

記憶傳授人

The Giver

露易絲·勞瑞

Lois Lowry

Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry and published on April 16, 1993. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore, it could be considered anti-utopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan which has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. As Jonas receives the memories from his predecessor－the "Giver"－he discovers how shallow his community's life has become.

Despite controversy and criticism that the book's subject material is inappropriate for young children, The Giver won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 5.3 million copies. In Australia, the United States and Canada it is a part of many middle school reading lists, but it is also on many banned book lists. The novel forms a loose trilogy with Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004), two other books set in the same future era.

《記憶傳授人》（The Giver） 是一部人文科幻小說。作者洛伊絲·洛利，于1993年4月16日出版。

《The Giver》中文又譯為《記憶受領員》或《授者》。

小說開篇構建了一個類似烏托邦的未來社會。隨著情節鋪展，逐漸幻化成反面烏托邦。小說描述一個名叫喬納斯(Jonas）的男孩在12歲那一年發生的故事。經過刻意同化，喬納斯生活的社區沒有痛苦，也沒有沖突，人們的生活不帶一絲感情。喬納斯被挑選出來接任“記憶接受者”這個職位，接受同化之前人類所有的記憶，以備在需要的時候使用。喬納斯從他的前任——賜予者——那兒獲得了這些記憶，他發現他所生活的社區極為淺薄封閉。獲得了1994年的紐伯瑞兒童文學獎，銷售量過三百五十萬冊。在美國，它位列很多初級中學的必讀書目，但是同時本書也屬被禁之列（“見以下爭議”）。人們慣常把這部小說和《憂郁聚集》（Gathering Blue）（2000年），以及《報訊者》（Messenger）（2004年）并稱三部曲，但是三本書之間關系并不大，后兩部書也是描述未來的小說。

全球熱銷電影版同名科幻小說！全球銷量300萬冊！因為有不美好，所以才會有美好；因為有了背叛，才懂得真心的可貴；因為有了失敗，才有了成功的驕傲，這真是一本值得永遠珍藏的書！

電影《賜予者》原著小說《記憶傳授人》：故事發生在一個類似烏托邦的未來社會里。這個社會里沒有記憶、感情、顏色和音樂，人們只擁有最基本的生活需求；一 切事情都被安排得井井有條，孩子們在規定好的統一模式里長大。當12歲的喬納斯成為新任“記憶傳授人”之后，他卻陡然發現他所生活的世界極為淺薄封閉，支 撐這個社會的不過是謊言。于是他決定要改變一切……

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