THE EXORCIST

Book ID/图书代码： 02330008B22592

English Summary/英文概要： When originally published in 1971, The Exorcist became not only a bestselling literary phenomenon, but one of the most frightening and controversial novels ever written. (When the author adapted his book to the screen two years later, it then became one of the most terrifying movies ever made.) Blatty fictionalized the true story of a child’s demonic possession in the 1940s. The deceptively simple story focuses on Regan, the 11-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C.; the child apparently is possessed by an ancient demon. It’s up to a small group of overwhelmed yet determined humans to somehow rescue Regan from this unspeakable fate. Purposefully raw and profane, this novel still has the extraordinary ability to literally shock us into forgetting that it is "just a story." The Exorcist remains a truly unforgettable reading experience. The Exorcist is a horror novel written by William Peter Blatty. It is based on a 1949 exorcism Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University, a Jesuit and Catholic school.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 永遠不死的大法師！確立「驅魔人」形象與相關想像的源頭！四分之一世紀以來，啟發恐怖驚悚文本與電影，魔幻、奇幻、科幻風潮的經典之作。近年來幾部改編電影在台灣上映，依然屢創票房紀錄，無數根據這部暢銷書改編的電腦遊戲與線上遊戲，受到年輕人的瘋狂歡迎。原著小說在全球各地暢銷熱潮，迄今屹立不搖，堪稱恐怖小說的開山祖師，也是必讀的重量級暢銷書。
本書是賣出數百萬冊的暢銷小說，由這本書改編而成的電影，曾經掀起了超現實恐怖電影的熱潮，其後也引起一陣仿傚之風。一個正常可愛的小女孩，身體卻被惡魔附身，產生不由自主的恐怖行為，她不但會眼睛翻白、全身變色、移動物體，甚至會360度的大旋轉！女孩的母親是一個演員，因為女兒的驟變而飽受折磨，當情況變得越來越糟糕之際，他們請來了一個神父為小女孩驅魔，但是這名神父曾因自己的母親去世而自責不已，早已失去了對宗教的信心，因此，當他為小女孩驅魔之時，還必須面對自己心中的惡魔…由這部小說改編成的電影在1973年上映時，曾在戲院中引起一陣歇斯底里，許多觀眾因為受不了劇情而昏倒、甚至頻頻發生醫護人員必須衝進戲院急救的狀況。(TT)

Awards/获奖情况：慶祝改編電影上映廿五週年，將推出系列電視影集。華納影業與原著作家合作，2009年將進行大規模的電影改版與行銷計畫！

""The Exorcist" is as superior to most books of its kind as an Einstein equation is to an accountant’s column of figures.""--New York Times Book Review""Wonderfully exciting.""--Newsweek""Read the book! It’s an experience you will never forget.""--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"

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About the Author/作者介绍： William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) is an American writer and filmmaker. He wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award.
Blatty was born in New York City, the son of Lebanese parents Mary (née Mouakad) and Peter Blatty, a carpenter.[1] His father left home when William was six years old. Raised in relative poverty by his deeply religious Catholic mother, he apparently lived at twenty-eight different addresses during his childhood[citation needed]. He attended several Catholic and Jesuit schools before finding his raison d’etre and attending Georgetown University to study English.
In the mid-1950s, Blatty was a contestant on the quiz show You Bet Your Life, winning $10,000 enough money to enable him to devote more time to writing professionally.
In 1960 Blatty published Which Way to Mecca, Jack?, which dealt humorously with his work at the United States Information Agency in Lebanon. He then published the comic novels John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1963), I, Billy Shakespeare (1965) and Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane (1966). Though he achieved a modicum of critical success with these books, commercial acceptance was lacking.
It was at this point that Blatty began a fruitful collaboration with director Blake Edwards, writing scripts for comedy films such as A Shot in the Dark (1964), What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966), Gunn (1967), and Darling Lili (1970). Without Edwards, Blatty also worked on comedy screenplays as "Bill Blatty", one notable credit being the Danny Kaye film The Man from the Diner’s Club.
Later Blatty resumed novel writing. Allegedly retiring to a remote and rented chalet in woodland off Lake Tahoe, Blatty wrote The Exorcist, a story about a twelve-year-old girl being possessed by a powerful demon. It would eventually be translated by himself and the director William Friedkin into one of the most famous and controversial mainstream horror movies of all time. According to Blatty, parts of the screenplay were unintentionally written in an apartment with the number 666.
In 1978, Blatty re-hashed Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane, a story about ex-soldiers in a mental institution during the Vietnam War, as The Ninth Configuration; and in 1980 he wrote, directed, and produced a film version. The film, a blend of farce and psychological drama with a religious undercurrent, thoroughly perplexed audiences and was a flop. It has since acquired a rather sizable cult following.
In 1983, he wrote a novel called Legion, a sequel to The Exorcist which later became the basis of the film The Exorcist III. Blatty originally wanted the movie version to be titled Legion but the film producers wanted it to be more closely linked to the original. The first sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) was disappointing both critically and commercially. Blatty had no involvement in this first sequel and his own follow-up ignored it entirely.
Blatty’s autobiography is titled I’ll Tell Them I Remember You. A short critical essay on Blatty’s work can be found in S. T. Joshi’s book The Modern Weird Tale (2001). Essays studying all Blatty’s novels can be found in Benjamin Szumskyj’s American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty (McFarland, 2008).
作者是知名美國作家與製片，《大法師》是他的成名代表作，他根據真實故事寫出讓人信服且感到深刻恐懼的小說，成功的融合了人性掙扎、道德、不可預測、反抗傳統權威、不可知的潛意識與靈魂…等吸引人的戲劇元素。

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