爱情和上帝——《孤心小姐》的出口

Love and God——Miss Lonelyhearts' Way Out

纳撒尼尔.韦斯特(Nathanael West,1903-1940)是美国第一位重要的犹太作家。这种犹太移民身份让他感到十分尴尬。他和他的作品都给人以一种离奇古怪,荒诞不羁,脱离现实的感觉。如他的小说《孤心小姐》中的孤心小姐一般,韦斯特用他那双忧郁的眼睛透过眼泪笑着看这个古怪离奇,混乱不堪的社会,他在寻找出口在哪。

Nathanael West is one of the most important Jewish American writers.He is embarrassed by his Jewish American identity.He himself and his work impress the reader with a sense of eccentricity.Like Miss Lonelyhearts in his masterpiece Miss Lonelyheart,West look at this eccentric and bizarre world through gloomy tears.He keeps on finding the way out.