《五十度灰》出版番外 男主重述虐戀

In a note to readers on the dedication page of her new novel, “Grey,” E. L. James sounds a bit like the exasperated mother of whiny, demanding children.

在最新一部小說《灰》(Grey)的題獻頁上，E·L·詹姆斯(E.L. James)有話對讀者們說，她的口氣活像一個被嘟嘟囔囔，要這要那的孩子們惹火的媽媽。

“This book is dedicated to those readers who asked ... and asked ... and asked ... and asked for this,” she writes.

“這本書獻給那些沒完沒了地讓我寫……讓我寫……讓我寫……讓我寫這本書的人，”她寫道。

“Grey” is a 559-page retelling of Ms. James’s blockbuster erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey,” this time from the perspective of the moody billionaire Christian Grey. Readers who tore through “Fifty Shades of Grey” and the other books in the best-selling trilogy have been badgering Ms. James for this version since she published the books in 2011.

559頁的《灰》把詹姆斯女士轟動一時的性愛小說《五十度灰》(Fifty Shades of Grey)重新講述了一遍，不過這一次是從喜怒無常的億萬富翁克里斯蒂安·格雷(Christian Grey)的視角出發。

For many fans, the wait ended Thursday with the publication of “Grey,” which rehashes Christian’s seduction of the demure college student Anastasia Steele as he draws her into a dominant-submissive sadomasochistic relationship.

《五十度灰》講了克里斯蒂安誘惑羞怯的大學生安娜斯塔西婭·斯蒂勒(Anastasia Steele)，帶領她進入一段主僕虐戀關係的故事 ，對於許多《五十度灰》的書迷來說，上週四出版的《灰》意味着他們的等待終於結束了。

But others refused to wait for Ms. James to write more. Instead, they created versions of Christian Grey’s story and posted them online, where they are drawing huge audiences of their own.

但是也有一些人等不及詹姆斯女士的續集。他們創作出自己的克里斯蒂安·格雷故事，並把它們貼在網上，還吸引了爲數衆多的讀者。

Gillian Griffin, a married, 58-year-old mother of three who lives in Surrey, England, was so smitten with the enigmatic, controlling character that she rewrote all three “Fifty Shades” novels from his point of view, and posted them on her blog, Meet Fifty Shades, under the pen name Christian Grey. It was mostly for her own amusement, she said, but others noticed. The novels, which took her a year to complete, have been viewed 8.8 million times. Ms. Griffin said she was eager to see what Ms. James has done with the same material.

吉莉安·格里芬(Gillian Griffin)58歲，已婚，有三個子女，住在英格蘭的薩里，她迷戀格雷這個神祕莫測，充滿控制慾的角色，於是從他的視角把《五十度灰》三部曲重寫了一遍，並把它貼在自己的博客“相逢五十度灰”(Meet Fifty Shades)上，並使用“克里斯蒂安·格雷”作爲筆名。她說這主要是爲了自娛自樂，但是這引起了其他人的關注。她花了一年寫成了這些小說，如今已經被閱讀880萬次。格里芬說，她很想讀一讀詹姆斯女士是怎麼來寫同樣題材的。

“I’m very curious to see how her story is different from mine,” Ms. Griffin, who has also written “Downton Abbey” fan fiction, said in a phone interview. “It’s a little bit weird, because it’s her story, her work, her characters. I was just borrowing them for a bit of fun.”

“我非常好奇，想看看她的故事和我的有多不一樣，”格里芬女士在接受電話採訪時說，她也寫《唐頓莊園》(Downton Abbey)的同人小說，“這有點奇怪，因爲這畢竟是她的故事、她的作品、她的人物。我只是因爲好玩才把它們拿過來。”

Fan fiction usually follows in the wake of a popular franchise, as readers take ownership of the characters and create their own stories. But in an unusual twist, Ms. James’s followers got out ahead of her, recasting “Fifty Shades” from the smoldering billionaire’s point of view well before she announced plans to do so herself.

一部流行的商業系列大作之後，通常會有同人小說隨之而來，讀者們借用作品中的角色，創作他們自己的故事。但情況不同的是，詹姆斯的擁躉們走在她前面，用書中這位悶騷的億萬富翁的視角重寫故事，之後詹姆斯本人才宣佈，她也有同樣的寫作計劃。

“Every girl that read that book fell in love with him,” said a “Fifty Shades” fan in Glasgow who publishes fan fiction about Christian Grey under the pen name Scarlette Drake on the website Wattpad, a popular site for fan fiction and original stories. (She spoke on condition her real name not be used to avoid scandalizing her co-workers at a housing charity.)

“所有看過這本書的女孩都會愛上他，”一位格拉斯哥的《五十度灰》書迷說，她以“斯嘉麗·德雷克”(Scarlette Drake)爲筆名創作這本書的同人小說，發表在“Wattpad”網站上，這是一個很受歡迎的同人小說及原創小說網站（她拒絕使用真名接受採訪，以免遭到住房慈善機構的同事們的嘲笑）。

That fans would run amok with the story was probably inevitable. Readers today often behave more like corporate shareholders than consumers, demanding a say in the direction a story takes and adding their own flourishes and twists. With thriving online fan communities, devotees of a franchise can easily find their niche. There are 2,400 fan-fiction stories based on “Fifty Shades” published on , and many more on Tumblr and “Fifty Shades”-centric sites.

書迷對原作的大肆刪改似乎無可避免。如今的讀者通常更像股東，而不是消費者，他們要求對故事的走向持有發言權，希望加入他們自己對情節的修飾和轉折。網上的粉絲團體非常活躍，商業系列的忠誠擁躉們可以輕易找到組織。比如網站上就有2400篇根據《五十度灰》創作的同人小說，Tumblr網站和“五十度灰”專題網站上還有更多。

Ms. James said she was flattered that readers have found her characters so engaging.

詹姆斯女士說，讀者們覺得她筆下的角色很迷人，這令她受寵若驚。

“I’m delighted that people are writing fan fiction based on ‘Fifty Shades,’ though I haven’t read any of it,” she said, responding to questions through her publisher. “It’s a huge compliment.”

“我很高興人們爲《五十度灰》創作同人小說，儘管我自己並沒讀過，”她通過出版商接受了採訪。“這是極高的讚美。”

And these writers are just following in the footsteps of Ms. James herself, who started writing “Fifty Shades” as free fan fiction, based on the characters Edward and Bella from Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight.” She changed their names to Christian and Anastasia, deleted her original fan fiction, and published the books with a small press in Australia.

這些寫手其實是步上了詹姆斯女士本人的後塵，她的《五十度灰》本來也是免費的同人小說，原型是斯蒂芬妮·梅耶(Stephenie Meyer)的《暮光》(Twilight)系列中的角色愛德華(Edward)與貝拉(Bella)。她把同人小說中原著的名字改成了克里斯蒂安和安娜斯塔西婭，在澳大利亞的一個小出版社出版。

After Vintage acquired paperback rights to the trilogy and published it in 2012, the books went on to sell 125 million copies in 52 languages. A feature film released in February generated nearly $570 million in global ticket sales. The series even spawned an unlikely line of merchandise, from “Fifty Shades” branded wine and handcuffs to lube and massage oil, vibrators, bondage rope and something called After Spanking cream. Forbes named Ms. James the highest-earning author of 2013, with an estimated income of $95 million.

2012年，Vintage出版社取得了這套三部曲的平裝書版權並出版，它很快以52種售出了1.25億冊。2月，根據該書改編的電影在全球創下了5.7億美元票房。該系列甚至產生了不可思議的衍生商品，從“五十度灰”牌紅酒，到手銬、潤滑劑、按摩油、振動器、束縛帶，乃至“掌臀霜”之類物品。2013年，詹姆斯女士獲得9500萬美元（約5.9億元人民幣）的收入，被《福布斯》(Forbes)雜誌列爲當年收入最高的作家。

“Grey” is already the most preordered digital book of 2015 on Amazon. Vintage planned a 1.25 million copy first printing and ordered two more printings based on demand, lifting the total copies in print to 1.6 million.

《灰》目前是2015年亞馬遜網站上預售量最高的電子書。Vintage出版社計劃首印125萬冊紙質書，之後根據需求加印兩次，目前總印數是160萬冊。

Some fans are not impressed. On Thursday morning, just hours after the book’s release, a sprinkling of negative reviews on Amazon and Goodreads took aim at “Grey” as a lazy and unimaginative follow up with little in the way of an original plot. “All I got out of this book was a repeat of the original,” a reviewer wrote in a two-star Amazon review. “This book is just an attempt for the author to squeeze every last drop of $$ she can get from this franchise,” another wrote.

也有些書迷並不買賬。上星期四上午，該書發行幾小時後，亞馬遜與Goodreads網站上就出現了少量差評，說《灰》是一部懶惰、缺乏想象力的續作，只是沿用了原著的情節。“這本書只有對原著的重複，”一個讀者在亞馬遜網站上給出了兩星的評價，“這本書無非是作者想從這個商業系列中榨出最後一點錢的努力，”另一個人寫道。

For many, though, more of the same is exactly what they want.

不過許多人要的就是重溫老調。

“We fell in love with the story of Christian and Anna,” said Penny Brueggemann, 56, who lives in Illinois and works for Purina. “We all wanted more.”

“我們喜歡克里斯蒂安與安娜的故事，”56歲，現居伊利諾斯州，在普瑞納公司工作的潘妮·布魯格曼(Penny Brueggemann)說，“我們想看更多。”

She found it online, in the writing of Emine Fougner, 42, who lives in Mesa, Ariz., and works as a freelance linguist and translator for the United States government. About four years ago, Ms. Fougner and a couple friends were dissecting the plot and characters in “Fifty Shades.” They agreed that Christian was the darker, more interesting character. Ms Fougner’s friends urged her to write her own version of the story from his point of view, so she started a blog. “They said, ‘We don’t really care about Ana; we want to hear what he thinks,’ “ she said.

她在網上找到了伊梅恩·弗格納(Emine Fougner)的作品，弗格納42歲，現居亞利桑那州的米薩(Mesa)，是爲美國政府工作的兼職語言學家和翻譯。四年前，弗格納和幾個朋友詳細討論過《五十度灰》中的情節和人物。她們認爲克里斯蒂安纔是更黑暗，更有趣的角色。朋友們都勸她從他的角度來寫這個故事，於是她就開始寫博客。“她們說，‘我們纔不在乎安娜，我們想知道他是怎麼想的，’”她說。

So did a lot of other people, apparently. Her blog, A Walk in the Clouds, has been viewed more than 14 million times. She counts readers in 187 countries. Volunteers have translated her writing into six languages.

顯然，很多人也有同感。她的博客“雲中漫步”(A Walk in the Clouds)被瀏覽了1400萬次。她統計讀者來自187個國家。有志願者把她的創作翻譯成六種語言。

At this point, Ms. Fougner, who has published the equivalent of five novels totaling some 3,500 pages, has written far more about Christian and Anastasia than their creator has.

到目前，弗格納已經發表了3500頁的內容，相當於五本小說，都是關於克里斯蒂安與安娜斯塔西婭的故事，比原作者創作的內容還多。

“I prefer her writing to E. L. James’s writing,” Ms. Brueggemann said. “I don’t think anything can compare.”

“比起E·L·詹姆斯，我更喜歡她寫的，”布魯格曼說，“她無與倫比。”

Another one of Ms. Fougner’s devoted readers, Krystal Shores Bailey, a 32-year-old stay-home mother who lives outside of Birmingham, Ala., said that she read “Grey” when it came out on Thursday and found it lacking compared with Ms. Fougner’s version.

弗格納的另一位忠實讀者克里斯托·肖爾斯·貝利(Krystal Shores Bailey)是一位32歲的全職母親，住在阿拉斯加州伯明翰郊區，她說上週四《灰》剛剛出版，她就馬上先睹爲快，覺得它不如弗格納的版本。

“I know ‘Grey’s’ going to be a letdown for me,” she said. “I’ve already read it through Emine’s eyes, and I honestly don’t think E. L. James can touch her version of Christian.”

“我知道《灰》肯定會讓我失望，”她說，“我已經透過伊梅恩的視角去看過這個故事了，誠實地說，我不覺得E·L·詹姆斯能寫好克里斯蒂安的故事。”