摘要
《珍珠》是斯坦倍克小说中的珍品。在国内有限的评论中,《珍珠》的主题被界定为反映底层人民的痛苦,揭露资本主义社会人吃人的本质。这种解读过于简单化和浅表化。本文以文本细读为基础,对《珍珠》多层次的意蕴进行探析:一是表达个体命运的偶然性和盲目性,二是揭示物欲对人性的扭曲,三是对资本主义文明的质疑和反思。唯其如此,才使《珍珠》超越民间故事的显在层面,触及到人类生存的根本性命题,成为深度思考人类命运的寓言化书写。
Within the few comments on The Pearl by Steinbeck in China,the theme of it is often defined as reflecting the miseries of the substrata,or exposing the cruel nature of capitalism. These views are quite superficial. Actually,The Pearl implies multilayered significance. Firstly,it expresses contingency and blindness of the individual destiny; secondly,it exposes the distortion of human nature inflicted by material desire; thirdly,it oppugns and introspects the capitalistic civilization. The Pearl touches the essential proposition of human＇s being and becomes the allegorical writing of human destiny.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2010年第4期124-130,共7页
Foreign Literature Studies
