从辛格的短篇小说看辛格的宗教情结

艾萨克·巴仕维斯·辛格是美国当代犹太作家,1978年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。在他的笔下,既有反映背井离乡的犹太人失落感的长篇巨著,也有折射光怪陆离的魍魉世界的短篇小说。相对于他的长篇小说来说,他本人与评论家都认为他的短篇写的更有特色。本文从辛格的短篇小说入手,来揭示辛格如何通过短篇故事向我们展示他二律背反的宗教观,以及他在对上帝的信奉与质疑之间的徘徊。

Isaac Bashevis Singer is the second Jew writer who won the Nobel Prize in 1978. Compared with its novels, his novellas stand out in prominence. To read Singer’s novels and short stories side by side is to come into touch with two very different kinds of imagination. On the one hand we have dynastic novels, attempts to do with Buddenbrooks in Yiddish, immersed in history, taking long views, and sounding the note of what one critic has called 'real magnificence'; on the other are short stories consistent in s...