摘要
借年老的动物学家夫妇在野外被残忍谋杀事件,小说《死》对死亡和尸体腐烂过程进行了超乎寻常的细致描写,揭开了人类肉体死亡的神秘、恐怖面纱。同时,透过小说中死亡事件所展现的人际关系,作家克雷斯揭露了现代文明社会的人性之殇。借助神秘自然主义,克雷斯暗示人性之殇可导致肉体死亡。然而,肉体死亡也可终结人性之殇,带来人性和肉体的"新生"。于是,肉体死亡、人性之殇和新生构成了死亡的三重含义。
In detailing the brutal murder of Joseph and Celine, a couple of mid- dle-aged zoologists, Jim Crace＇s novel Being Dead dwells on the process of dying and on decomposition of human bodies to unveil the horror of physical death. The complex interpersonal relationships among characters also indicate the death of humanity in a modern civilized society. The novel implies with mysterious naturalism that death of humanity may lead to human beings＇ physical death, which in turn may terminate the death of humanity and bring about rebirth.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第4期43-49,共7页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
关键词
《死》
肉体死亡
人性之殇
新生
Being Dead, physical death, death of humanity, rebirth
