美国非虚构小说崛起的科技和思想背景

Rise of American Nonfiction Novel:Science and Technology Background and Beyond

美国非虚构小说在上世纪中期的繁荣具有深厚的科学技术和思想意识根源。科技创新在提升人类认识水平和改善生存环境的同时,也革新了作家的认知观念和创作思想。认识危机的弥漫,怀疑意识的扩散,使作家放弃了虚构、解释和说教的传统,代之以真实事件来表达主题。而对这一段历史的回顾具有双重意义:不但可加深对美国这一重要的文学现象的研究,而且给我们提供了洋为中用,以史为鉴的依据,有助于我们探讨国内目前纪实性文学的繁荣。

The advancement of science and technology imposes a remarkable effect upon man’s exploration of the world and his outlook on the world, naturally, it makes changes in writer’s ideas about writing, and subsequently in writing approach. The cognitive crises, which are closely related to the innovations in science and technology, which are pervasive in the American society in the sixties of the last century, contributes a lot to the reform of literary genres, and to the remarkable rise of the nonfiction novel in particular.