《汀克溪的朝圣者》与后现代主义

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Postmodernism

《汀克溪的朝圣者》体现出了明显的后现代主义倾向:它在消解现代主体(性)的核心内容;认为大自然充满了恐怖、混乱、不确定性、偶然性和不完整性等因素,当下存在易失,变化、消亡、物质存在方式的多样化等具有必然性;主张人应持宽容态度、用多元标准去处理自然和人的关系。但该书对后现代主义又有所超越:它并未完全否认人的理性的作用;同时强调大自然有美丽的一面,且不否认大自然有可解释、准确性、必然性和有秩序的一面;它认为人在自然中净化、升华,以及人变得崇高、有神性是可行的。因此,该书经住了时间的考验。

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek evidently embodies the followin g postmodernist concepts: firstly, it decomposes the core of modern subjectivity; secondly, it holds that nature is filled with terror, disorder, indeterminacy, coincidence, imperfection, the present tends to elude, and change, decomposition and the variety of the forms of matter are inevitable; and thirdly , it maintains that man should be tolerant and practice multiple criteria when handling the rela tionship between man and nature. However, the work somehow goes beyond postmodernism, because for one thing, it does not completely deny the role of human reason but insists that there be some thing beautiful in nature, and for another, it does not negate the existence of something explicabl e, accurate, inevitable and orderly in nature but recognizes that human beings can be sublime d as well as purified in nature, and then become noble and immortal.