摘要
麦克尤恩于2005年出版的小说《星期六》以成功的中年外科医生在"星期六"这一天的生活轨迹为主线,细腻而深刻地呈现出西方当代都市的文化生态。本文通过指出小说中的当代都市人在"星期六"表现出的扭曲的欣快症,厘清了都市文化的乌托邦姿态的本质,并梳理出当代都市文化中的胜者必败逻辑,阐释了使得成功本身成为一个逻辑悖论的当代文化内核。由此,光鲜的物质成功背后的灾难感得以清晰呈现,扭曲的当代文化逻辑所引发的精神荒芜和文化困境也得以深刻揭示。
Saturday is the ninth novel of the British writer Ian McEwan. The book details a typical urban cultural ecology by tracing a Saturday life of a successful middle- aged surgeon. To explicate what underlies the Utopian ideology, the present study takes a look at the ＂euphoria＂ of the urbanites, as is reflected throughout the Saturday life, to reveal that winners in the contemporary life are actually no more than a loser. More known is a grim sense of foreboding in the disguise of a glossy material success and above all, a twisted cultural logic of the contemporary urban life, as is revealed by the author Ian McEwan.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2016年第6期141-149,共9页
Foreign Literature
基金
国家社会科学基金项目"当代英国小说中的都市文化困境研究"(11BWW045)
国家留学基金资助
