美国犹太小说中的两种基本人物类型(英文)

Two Basic Types of Characters in American Jewish Novels

美国犹太小说中有两种基本的人物类型。从他们的身上,既传达出丰富的犹太文化底蕴,又表达了犹太人生存的基本理念。大致说来.这两种人物类型为"傻瓜"型的人物和受害者型的人物。前者揭示了犹太人在社会现实语境中自我设置或外力强加给他们的脆弱的社会地位;后者则让读者联想到犹太人在历史上所蒙受的苦难。本文在细读一些重要美国犹太小说(如索尔·贝娄的《受害者》、伯纳德·马拉默德的《基辅冤》和《店员》以及I·B·辛格的《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》和《敌人:一个爱情的故事》)的基础上,作出分析研究。

There are two basic types of characters in American Jewish novels, registering both the richness of Jewish cultural sustenance and the conceptual frame of Jewish existence.Roughly speaking,the two basic types of charac- ters are characters of schlemiel and of victim.The former reveals their self- imposed and outward-imposed Jewish vulnerable social location in the context of social reality;while the latter recalls Jewish sufferings in history.This pa- per will develop a critical analysis based on a close reading of some major American Jewish novels,such as Saul Bellow's The Victim,Bernard Malamud's The Fixer and The Assistant,Isaac Bashevis Singer's'Gimpel the Fool'and Enemies:A Love Story.