Dances with Wolves(与狼共舞)
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基本信息·出版社：Fawcett
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：1988年
·ISBN：0449134482
·条形码：9780449134481
·包装版本：1
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开
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内容简介首先是电影，然后是书，依次闪动在我们眼前，但原著比这部奥斯卡获奖作品，更加优秀和动人心弦。它道出了心底被压抑的渴望和向往。
小说的语言是寂寞苍茫的，如冰山下的暗涌。
一个孤独的人，和一头孤独的狼，两者的舞蹈息息相关，彼此共通，构成了这个与世隔绝的自然界中最和谐的呼吸。
Publisher Comments :
Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.
About Author
Originally from North Carolina, Michael Blake began his writing career during his service in the armed forces. Following separation, he pursued his writing as a student journalist at the University of New Mexico and, in the seventies, attended film school in Berkeley California where he began writing screenplays. He later relocated to Los Angeles to be closer to the film industry. He now lives with his wife and children on a ranch in southern Arizona.
Michael Blake's other novels include Airman Mortensen, Marching To Valhalla and the sequel to Dances With Wolves, The Holy Road and the first volume of his autobiography, Like A Running Dog. Blake is currently working on another epic novel names Slade.
Michael Blake received several awards for Dances With Wolves, including an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of the novel.
Book Dimension:
length: (cm)17.5 width:(cm)10.7
作者简介Michael Blake has worked in pill factories,newspaper offices,Christmas tree lots,radio stations,dishwashing rooms,and many other places.DANCES WITH WOLVES is his first novel.
The author lives in California with two dogs(Bear and Pal) and two horses(Project and Quanah).He is currently at work on his next novel.
媒体推荐Spot Reviews
Reviewer: William Sugarman "nprfan1" (Great Neck, NY USA)
It's a bit hard to believe that Kevin Costner turned such a simply written book into such a wonderfully sophisticated film. But that's exactly what happened.
Michael Blake's book reads as though it was written for a junior high and high school audience. That doesn't stop it from being a well-done tale of life on the prairie in 19th-century America, although why Costner made his Indians Sioux instead of Commanche as written by Blake is beyond me.
Aside from that difference, Costner obviously followed Blake's novel almost to the letter; I felt as if I was seeing the movie all over again. But Blake's writing style is something of a disappointment. After seeing the movie I was expecting a much more detailed story of John Dunbar's transformation into Dances With Wolves - something on the order of James Clavell's "Shogun". If you picked this book up looking for information on how Native Americans lived back in their glory days I suggest you look elsewhere. But if you're looking for a well done Western this is the book for you.
Reviewer: hadwings "hadwings" (MIdWEst)
It is a tale of an American soldier, Lt. John Dunbar, a hero of the war who gains the admiration of a General and given any post in the West.
What does he choose? The most barren, "savage" part of the West, it is land dominated by a people unlike, yet similar to our own, the Native Americans.
Dunbar finds himself alone when he arrives at the fort-abandoned because of the Indians. Making the best of it, he sets up camp, preparing for the arrival of other soldiers.
Soon, he befriends the neighboring Comanche tribe. A little bit at a time, Dunbar meets interesting and honorable members of that tribe, especially a woman named Stands With a Fist, an adopted white member of the tribe who has just lost her husband. By the command of the tribe leader, they ask Stands with a Fist to help communicate with Dunbar.
From that point, Dunbar the people of the Comanche tribe learns about each other's cultures. A bridge is gaped where none existed. Both people had ideas about each otherm, misconceptions soon put aside for admiration and respect.
It has a simple writing style which I think works for this book. It's philological and addresses discrimination and stereotypes about Native Americans and the unjustness toward them.
Dunbar realizes that the Native Americans were human beings and deserved to be treated equally, even though their customs were alien to them. He was open-minded, something we all wish we could be. In Dunbar you will find a hero and a champion.
I liked how the author used the concept of prejudices and the realizing the wrongs of nation to a group of peaceful people. But he needed more pages to really get in-depth and could have made an even bigger impact. It made me think, though, could I have done what he had done?
Customer Reviews
1.The source for Kevin Costner's award-winning film., October 26, 2006
Reviewer: S. Hawken
Everyone remembers Kevin Costner's 1990 film, DANCES WITH WOLVES. Even those people who wouldn't cross the street to see any other western lined up to see this one, and the movie earned Costner a well-deserved series of awards. But few watching the contemporary western epic realized that DANCES WITH WOLVES was originally a novel that no one wanted to buy.
Written by Michael Blake, DANCES WITH WOLVES the NOVEL is an intriguing variation on ROBINSON CRUSOE set in the waning years of the American Civil War. Decorated US Army officer John Dunbar receives a posting to a remote outpost on the Great Plains, not realizing that the "fort," which is little more than a dirty hole in the ground, has been abandoned. All alone, Dunbar is swallowed by the frontier and becomes the titular Dances With Wolves after he encounters a tribe of Comanche summering nearby.
Blake`s novel is quiet and surprisingly light, considering the weight of the film adapted from it. His hero is a man, out of place in his own world, who discovers another kind of humanity among the Comanche. It unfolds, though initially supported by an improbable series of events, in a way that seems natural at its climax, and remains hopeful even in the face of a bloody white/Indian history.
A special, hardcover edition of the novel saw release in the wake of Costner's film. In the afterword, Blake writes of discovering a new way to see Native Americans, freed from the savage stereotype of so many decades. This is an admirable motive, but if there's a weakness to his novel, it's that he leans too far in the opposite direction. His Comanche possess no negative traits, while the Pawnee tribe assumes a more familiar, "evil Indian" quality.
Blake's narrative moves much more swiftly than Costner's, which is both a positive and a negative. Blake's Dunbar seems more than eager to shed his "whiteness," even before he meets his first Indian. This makes the transition into an Anglo Comanche easier, but it also bypasses potential drama. Dunbar has a revelatory moment when he BECOMES Dances With Wolves in body and spirit, but he already seemed halfway there. With nothing anchoring him to his old identity, he really has nothing from which to be set free.
This isn't to say that DANCES WITH WOLVES represents a poor effort on the part of the author. For a first novel, Blake's work is well polished and involving, even when he makes the novice's mistake of making his protagonists more capable and assured than perhaps they ought to be. Dunbar, in particular, never makes a wrong step and is so enlightened as to be saintly.
The thematic underpinnings of DANCES WITH WOLVES have been borrowed so many times since 1990 that they might not seem as original as they were at the time. Readers must keep in mind that, with few exceptions, there was nothing quite like DANCES WITH WOLVES before it came along. Native Americans were not exactly vilified, but they hadn't made the transition to the fully heroic. Whatever flaws Blake's work may have, it deserves credit for doing the unthinkable and doing it first.
2.The book is better, in my opinion., October 10, 2006
Reviewer: Rachel Elaine
A friend recently gave me a copy of the "Dances With Wolves" movie (one of my favorites since seeing it years ago) and the book which I had never read. After a repeat viewing of the movie, I read the book.
The main reason I normally prefer the book versions of a story is that one gets to know the thoughts and feelings of the main characters that embellish each scene and are actually sometimes needed to understand the full scope.
This reason especially applies in the case of "Dances With Wolves," written by Michael Blake. The main character is alone with only his horse, the infrequent visits of a lone wolf and his brief journalized thoughts for company until his company includes a nearby camp of Indians. As the beautiful and memorable story transpires amidst a language barrier, one is privy to a richness of behind-the-scenes depth the movie version is limited in presenting.
There are a few variations between the movie and the book, including the ending (and I prefer the ending of the book), but if you liked the movie, you will love the book.
编辑推荐Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.
