飛狐外傳(一): 《金庸作品集》修訂版

The Young Flying Fox #1

by Jin Yong

《飛狐外傳》一書補《雪山飛狐》之不足，寫胡斐這個人的成長過程，在《外傳》中，較受牽制。但胡斐遇到無塵道長，快刀鬥快劍這一大段，是頗令人眉飛色舞的情節。《外傳》的旁枝也相當精采紛呈。「紅花會」中的人物，在《外傳》中出場不多，但是卻光芒萬丈。

Genres: Fiction, Classics, China

391 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief.

Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies).

Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games.


金庸，大紫荊勳賢，OBE（英語：Louis Cha Leung-yung，1924年3月10日－2018年10月30日），本名查良鏞，浙江海寧人，祖籍江西婺源，1948年移居香港。自1950年代起，以筆名「金庸」創作多部膾炙人口的武俠小說，包括《射鵰英雄傳》、《神鵰俠侶》、《鹿鼎記》等，歷年來金庸筆下的著作屢次改編為電視劇、電影等，對華人影視文化可謂貢獻重大，亦奠定其成為華人知名作家的基礎。金庸早年於香港創辦《明報》系列報刊，他亦被稱為「香港四大才子」之一。


Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E9%87...

Reviews

[Leanne Chu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Likes
1. Twists -- always surprises me ; there are so many twists and turns that one can never guess all of them correctly
2. Language -- he mastered the chinese language well, writing in both prose and verse
3. Martial Arts -- so real at times that I'm quite tempted to take up martial arts
4. (bonus) -- he referenced a historical story which is moving. It also brings back childhood memories of how I felt when I first read that story -- anger, hatred, an impulse to demand justice for the victims. This is exactly what the protagonist feels and I think it helps make the plot more relatable to and believable for the reader. I particularly like it that he actually went to visit the monument where that historical event happened, to find out the details to that story. He explained in the footnote that the names and particulars of the event have been lost in time, so that the names, etc he used in the book is fiction. His efforts in paying the monument a visit and his frankness in admitting the particulars is fiction are pleasing.
5. Plot -- complexity of the plot is fascinating. His narrative is not straightforward. He always leave something out in each chapter, to be revealed in future chapters. Yet each chapter is self-sufficient, in the sense that each is capable of, and does, consist(ing) a full story.
6. Setting and characterisation / world building -- as if you are transported back into ancient China ; the way people talk, the way they dress, the way they move about tending to their daily affairs, the architecture, the food, and even the names of the people and places, and so on ; all of them are there, and this constitutes great world building, and believable characters


Dislike
(Sorry, this is more of a thing with all of the author's martial arts books.)
As always, the male protagonist is fancied by all the girls his age.
And as always, the male protagonist fancies them too.

[隻眼簽到 · Rating 4 out of 5]

最喜歡趙半山講解太極拳亂環訣、陰陽訣拳理的那段！這大概就是所謂的理論癖吧？其實，很難說「拳理」到底有沒有用？以太極拳來說，要理解拳經字面上的意思只要一堂課，但要「體會」到那些道理的「真實性」，卻是一輩子的功夫。武俠小說常強調上乘的武功是用腦子練而不是用身子練，恐怕並非實情。實情是，要讓腦子理解拳理容易，要讓身子理解拳理卻難。
比較不喜歡的是，長大的胡斐好像變笨了。小時候功夫未到，也無江湖閱歷，卻表現的機變百出，屢占先機。長大後，功夫好了，「四海為家」、「到處行俠仗義，扶危濟困」，照理說，見識也應增加了，不過卻反而連連受騙，一直吃鼈。兩位女性袁紫衣和程靈素，不僅各有所長，智力表現似乎也都勝過他。失望！

[Yu Jie · Rating 4 out of 5]

胡斐小時與家人的離異在雪山飛狐裡記載，離異以後長大的遭遇則寫在外傳裡。

小胡斐先是在商家堡遇上閻基得到胡家拳經的頭兩頁而完整了胡家的拳法，後遇上趙半山結了忘年之交。一直都是梗直無城府的他，先後再遇上了詭計多端的鳳南天及聰慧機靈的袁紫衣，又遇上正直不阿的鍾氏三兄弟及擅長使毒的程靈素，慢慢了解世間險惡；眼前看到的，卻不是真正自己所理解的。

上冊的結尾，胡斐與鍾家大哥終於請到程靈素一同前往苗人鳳的家，要請程靈素醫好苗人鳳被暗算而傷的雙眼。

[Coffeetree · Rating 4 out of 5]

看這書名，自然就知道這飛狐來自雪山飛狐。