K-PAX (1995)

《K星异客》（英语：K-PAX）是美国作家吉恩·布鲁尔于1995年所创作的科幻小说。在2001年改编成同名电影《K星异客》。

小说系列

《K-PAX》（1995）

《K-PAX II: On a Beam of Light》（2001）

《K-PAX III: Worlds of Prot》（2002）

《K-PAX IV: A New Visitor from the Constellation Lyra》（2007）

《K-PAX V: The Coming of the Bullocks》（2014）

简介

曼哈顿大中央车站发生一起抢劫案，警察赶到现场后，发现一名白人男子，他对警察的问题回答相当奇怪，之后警察将他送进了Bellevue Hospital医院。结果显示他虽然没有疾病，却有奇怪的错觉，他自称为"prot"，来自天琴座名叫K-PAX的星球。最终他被转入曼哈顿精神病学研究所(MPI)，在那里他遇见了Gene Brewer博士。

Brewer在调查后发现，prot可能是Robert Porter的多重人格表现，Robert Porter在妻子和孩子被杀害后，杀死了凶手，成为了prot。

最终，prot回到母星，而Robert Porter处于紧张性精神分裂症的状态，另一个病人Bess（prot答应带她去K-PAX）和prot的一箱子纪念物品都消失不见。

K-PAX is a 1995 American science fiction novel by Gene Brewer, the first in the K-PAX series. The series deals with the experiences on Earth of a being named Prot. It is written in the first person from the point of view of Prot's psychiatrist.

K-PAX was adapted into a theatrical film of the same name, released in 2001.

Series

K-PAX (1995)

K-PAX II: On a Beam of Light (2001)

K-PAX III: Worlds of Prot (2002)

K-PAX IV: A New Visitor from the Constellation Lyra (2007)

K-PAX V: The Coming of the Bullocks (2014)

Synopsis

In 1990, a man is picked up by the New York Police after being found bending over the victim of a mugging at Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan. After responding to the police questions with somewhat strange answers, he is transferred to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation. Although not physically ill, he is found to harbor the strange delusion that he is from a planet called K-PAX in the Lyra constellation. The patient calls himself "Prot" (pronounced to rhyme with "goat", and intentionally written in lower-case to reflect the insignificance of an individual life form in the universe). He is eventually transferred to the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute (MPI), where he becomes the patient of Dr. Gene Brewer.

Prot is extremely fond of fruit, including banana skins and apple cores, which he eats during each session. He tells Brewer that he is 337 Earth years old, that he has visited Earth often, and that on this visit he has traveled to most of the world's countries for the past four years and nine months. He exhibits a sense of humor, reassuring Brewer on the first session that, despite being one, an alien will not burst out of his chest. Brewer discovers that Prot is also a savant who possesses arcane information about astronomy that excites a group of astronomers who meet him. Prot states that he possesses at least rudimentary conversational knowledge of most human languages as well as the languages of animals, including whale song and the apparent gibberish of some schizophrenic patients.

Though Prot's dialogue is usually satirical, he turns out to be highly suggestible and easily hypnotized. Once Brewer learns this, he begins more serious therapy. With the help of journalist Giselle Griffin, Brewer discovers that Prot may be Robert Porter, who was traumatized by the murder of his wife and child, and his subsequent killing of the perpetrator, and that prot may be an alter ego resulting from dissociative identity disorder. Brewer speculates that the name Prot is derived from Porter's surname.

When Prot "returns" to his own planet, Robert Porter is left in a catatonic state. However, Bess, another patient Prot had promised to take with him, disappears along with a box of souvenirs prot has been collecting. Before departing, prot promises to return in five Earth years.

Adaptations

The 2001 film K-PAX was directed by Iain Softley and based on the first book in this series. Kevin Spacey portrays prot, and Jeff Bridges plays the psychiatrist.

K-PAX was made into a stage play, also written by Gene Brewer, and has been performed at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, directed by Victor Sobchak. In 2010, the play made its North American debut at The Geneva Underground Playhouse in Geneva, Illinois directed by Eric Peter Schwartz.