海勒末年自画像《老年艺术家画像》综论

The Last Years' Self-image of Heller: Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man

本文是对海勒遗作《老年艺术家画像》的综合探讨。文章首先考究了小说主人公,老年作家波特视工作和爱情为人生最大乐趣的人生观,继而审视了波特关于文学家、文学生涯、文学创作的思考,然后探索了作家通过天界人间立体交叉的婚姻状况描写而形成的多层面、多视角的婚姻困境展示。文章最后强调该作具有圆熟、广袤、含蓄和隽永的特点,其意义和价值有待于读者的细心体味和时间的长期验证。

This paper is a comprehensive study of Heller's posthumous novel Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. It examines the hero, an old novelist's notion that a person to be happy has to be able to love and to work, discusses his reflections on personality, life, and creation of novelists, and then explores his unique revelation of the marriage predicament both human beings and gods/goddesses face. It stresses that this novel is characteristic of proficient, cosmic, implicit, and thought - provoking features , and believes that its significance and value are to be further savoured by readers and proved by time.