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Dan Brown
Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a period of 24 hours. They feature recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 57 languages and, as of 2012, have sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been adapted into films.
In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise.”
丹·布朗
1964年，丹·布朗出生于美国新罕布夏州，1996年，出于对密码破译和秘密情报机构的兴趣，丹·布朗创作了他的第一部小说《数字堡垒》，随后创作出版了《骗局》、《天使与魔鬼》、《达·芬奇密码》。
丹·布朗小说中，高科技知识文化与古代神秘知识文化总是发生着融合与冲突，这既是“丹·布朗旋风”显示的一道靓丽风景，也是当代人类真实生存状态的镜像。小说主人公生活在高科技知识文化的包裹里，具备高科技文化知识和研究创造的才能。他们是高科技知识的从业者，高科技知识的享用者，也思考着高科技知识文化给人类生存造成的新的社会问题和未来。
The Da Vinci Code Book Guide
The Greatest Conspiracy of the Past 2000 Years is About to Unravel
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and da Vinci, among others. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory’s most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.
In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei—a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory’s secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory’s secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever.
In an exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, symbologist Robert Langdon (first introduced in Dan Brown’s bestselling Angels & Demons) is the most original character to appear in years. The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller…surprising at every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, utterly unpredictable…right up to its astonishing conclusion.
Did you know: Salman Rushdie described Brown’s breakthrough book The Da Vinci Code as a “book so bad it makes bad books look good”
《达·芬奇密码》小说导读
正在巴黎出差的哈佛大学教授罗伯特·兰登午夜接到匿名电话，得知卢浮宫博物馆馆长雅克·索尼埃被害，于是应召来到博物馆，对一系列与达·芬奇的艺术作品有关联的神秘符号进行分析和调查。在与索尼埃的孙女、密码破译天才索菲·奈芙联手对诸多奇形怪状的符号及密码进行整理的过程中，他发现一连串的线索就隐藏在达·芬奇的艺术作品当中。他发现了能解开历史上难解之谜的一把钥匙，并与奈芙跟一位神秘的幕后操纵者展开了斗智斗勇的角逐，而他自己也因此成为一名被追逐者。除非他们能解开这个错综复杂的谜，否则，郇山隐修会苦心掩盖的惊天大秘密以及令人震惊的古老真相，终将永远消失。
故事围绕着各种文化符号不断展开，一开场便是艺术圣殿卢浮官、达·芬奇名画、斐波那契数列，解密途中死海古卷、希伯来编码、郇山隐修会、天主事工会等又让人目不暇接，文化蕴涵了艺术、文学、数学、化学、历史学、社会学、宗教等众多领域。此外，小说中还使用了不少的双关话，文字游戏的方式增添了故事情节的神秘感，故事人物解读双关语、重组字母的环节充满了智慧与幽默，皆提升了文本的艺术价值。如雅克·索尼埃馆长的遗言：“0，Draconian devil！0h， Lame Saint！”，其意思绝不是“哦，严酷的魔王!哦，瘸腿的圣徒”，而要将打乱的字母重新排列“Leonardo da Vinci！The Mona Lisa！”（列昂纳多·达·芬奇！蒙娜丽莎！）
然而，丹·布朗却并非简单的引用艺术史、宗教史等内容，而是在援引中作了适当的改造。尽管各界对达·芬奇画作《蒙娜丽莎》的原型人物众说纷纪，但普通认同是一位女性的肖像画，而《达·芬奇密码》中兰登却对《蒙娜丽莎》的人物性别提出了疑问，大胆推测《蒙娜丽莎》其实是达·芬奇的自画像，甚至说画中人是“雌雄同体”。而达·芬奇的另一名作《最后的晚餐》，小说中的雷·提彬爵士更是否定了人们普遍认同的十三个男性，言之凿凿地向索菲解释是一个女人和十二个男人，甚者这位女性是耶稣的妻子还孕育了后代，而其真实身份就是《圣经》里抹大拉的玛利亚，教会为隐瞒他们的真实关系而编造谎言诋毁她。这些惊人的解读，是将部分史实与小说家的虚构混杂起来营造一种虚构的真实，其间杂揉了悬念、凶杀、言情等通俗小说叙事元素，满足了不同层次读者的需求。
“本书中所有关于艺术品、建筑、文献和秘密仪式的描述均准确无误。”