The Man Who Has Never Seen the Sea is one of the short works of the famous contemporary French writerJean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who is one of the representative writers of French New Fables in the second half ...The Man Who Has Never Seen the Sea is one of the short works of the famous contemporary French writerJean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who is one of the representative writers of French New Fables in the second half ofthe 20th century. Since that time, the progress of industrial civilization and the rapid development of science andtechnology have had a negative impact on the human condition, and spiritual civilization has gradually beenovertaken by material civilization. The writer’s works pay close attention to the material and mental state of humanexistence, question the confusion in contemporary civilization, and explore the distorted human nature under thecover of material civilization. Through analyzing the ocean writing in The Man Who Has Never Seen the Sea, thispaper explores the protagonist’s escape under the pressure of material society and his pursuit of a free life in theembrace of the ocean, with a view to drawing attention to the social and civilization themes of Clézio’s shortstories.展开更多
文摘The Man Who Has Never Seen the Sea is one of the short works of the famous contemporary French writerJean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who is one of the representative writers of French New Fables in the second half ofthe 20th century. Since that time, the progress of industrial civilization and the rapid development of science andtechnology have had a negative impact on the human condition, and spiritual civilization has gradually beenovertaken by material civilization. The writer’s works pay close attention to the material and mental state of humanexistence, question the confusion in contemporary civilization, and explore the distorted human nature under thecover of material civilization. Through analyzing the ocean writing in The Man Who Has Never Seen the Sea, thispaper explores the protagonist’s escape under the pressure of material society and his pursuit of a free life in theembrace of the ocean, with a view to drawing attention to the social and civilization themes of Clézio’s shortstories.
