The Twilight Watch

Name: The Twilight Watch
ISBN: 9787532153565

谢尔盖·卢基扬年科Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House2014

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Word count: 350K words
Chapters: 3
Series: Night Watch series
ISBN: 9787532153565

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Summary

The Twilight Watch is the third volume of the Night Watch series by the Russian writer Sergei Lukyanenko, originally published in Russian in 2004 and translated into Chinese by Wu Jianping. The story is still set in Moscow and continues the series' premise: living alongside ordinary people are "Others," who can enter the Twilight, a shadowy dimension parallel to reality, and draw supernatural powers from it; the Others are divided into the Light and the Dark, overseen respectively by the Night Watch and the Day Watch, with the Inquisition above both maintaining the balance. This volume consists of three novellas that are both independent and interconnected—"Time Without an Owner," "Space Without an Owner," and "Power Without an Owner"—and unfolds once more from the first-person perspective of the Night Watch magician Anton Gorodetsky. An anonymous letter raises an astonishing question: does the ancient spell Fuaran, said to be able to transform ordinary humans into Others, really exist, and has it already been used? The Night Watch, the Day Watch, and the Inquisition each send people to investigate, and Anton can rely only on human-detective-style reasoning and his ability to slip into the Twilight to grope for the truth in the crevice where Light and Dark both cooperate and oppose each other, again and again facing the choice of whether humans should be made into Others. The work blends detective reasoning, urban fantasy, and philosophical speculation, and is a key volume in the series that links what comes before and after.

Editor's review

如果你读过《守夜人》《守日人》，或者看过那两部同名电影，那么《黄昏使者》是不能跳过的一本。它是系列第三部，原书由三个中篇组成，结构更接近第一部《守夜人》：每篇各有序幕、正文与尾声，节奏紧凑，悬念层层递进。卢基扬年科的厉害之处在于，他写的虽是魔法师、吸血鬼与女巫，真正追问的却是很“人间”的问题：力量该不该被分享，善意会不会变成灾难，规则与正义冲突时站在哪一边。中文版由吴健平翻译，语言流畅，把莫斯科的日常街景与黄昏界的灰调氛围都保留了下来。2014年上海文艺出版社版约三十五万字，一卷读完，分量刚好。

Who it's for

A good fit for

读过《守夜人》《守日人》，想继续追系列的读者
喜欢都市奇幻与超自然设定的幻想文学爱好者
偏爱侦探推理式叙事、喜欢层层解谜的读者
对俄罗斯当代类型小说与东欧奇幻有兴趣的读者

Not a good fit for

完全没有接触过系列前作、希望单本独立成篇的读者
期待快节奏战斗场面、对大量内心独白缺乏耐心的读者
不习惯奇幻设定与哲学思辨交织写法的读者

Reading tips

建议按《守夜人》《守日人》《黄昏使者》的顺序阅读，许多人物关系与规则设定需要前作铺垫。
把三个中篇当作三个案子来读，留意每篇序幕与尾声的对照，它们是理解全书主题的钥匙。
读到关于《富阿兰》与“人类成为他者”的争论时，不妨停下来想一想自己的选择，再对照安东的抉择。
若对设定感兴趣，可在读完后再看系列第四部《最后的守护人》，很多伏笔会在那里回收。

About the publisher

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House China · Founded in 1952

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House takes modern and contemporary Chinese literature and folk literature as important publishing directions, while also covering social novels, classic works, and prose and miscellaneous writings, and has long introduced foreign literature and philosophical works. Its books include masterpieces such as Lao She's Teahouse and Camel Xiangzi, Lu Xun's Call to Arms and Wandering and Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, and Xiao Hong's Tales of Hulan River, as well as translations such as Gilles Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Pillars of the Earth trilogy. Its authors include Lao She, Lu Xun, Xiao Hong, Zhou Ying, Liu Yuyu, and Jiang Yi, reflecting a publishing character that balances original literature, academic translation, and general reading.

Part One Time Without an Owner
Part Two Space Without an Owner
Part Three Power Without an Owner

FAQ

《黄昏使者》可以单独读吗？

可以看懂，但不建议。它是“守夜人系列”第三部，安东、斯维塔、格谢尔、科斯佳等人物的关系与黄昏界、大和约等规则都建立在前两部之上，先读《守夜人》《守日人》体验会完整得多。

这本书和电影是什么关系？

系列前两部《守夜人》《守日人》曾被改编为同名电影，在俄罗斯本土票房与口碑都不错，但电影对原著改编较大。阅读《黄昏使者》时，最好以小说设定为准，不要用电影剧情去推测人物走向。

这个中文版由谁翻译、有多少字？

2014年上海文艺出版社版由吴健平翻译，约三十五万字，共四百余页，属“守夜人系列”丛书，ISBN为9787532153565。

书里三个部分讲的是同一个故事吗？

不是。全书由《无主的时间》《无主的空间》《无主的力量》三个中篇组成，各有独立的核心谜题，但围绕《富阿兰》咒语与“人类能否成为他者”这一主线层层推进，最后汇成整体。

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谢尔盖·卢基扬年科 Author

Sergei Lukyanenko is an author known primarily for science fiction, though public information about his nationality, dates of birth and death, and full career remains limited. Within our database, his work The Stars Are Cold Toys (2 volumes) is classified as science fiction, and this is the main basis for understanding his creative profile. One work alone is not enough to give a complete picture of the author, but it does suggest that his writing belongs to the science fiction field and tends toward narratives set against the backdrop of the cosmos, the future, or technological imagination. For readers who wish to learn more about this author, the included work is a reasonable starting point, with attention to its thematic settings and narrative style. Given the limited material, this introduction does not speculate further about the author's life experience, education, awards, honors, or total output; it can be supplemented if more public information becomes available.