“进步”浪潮中的商品泡沫:《名利场》的启示

Commodity Bubbles on the Waves of “Progress”: A Revelation by Vanity Fair

克里斯托弗·林德纳对《名利场》的分析有两个缺陷。其一,他未能对小说中“进步”话语跟商品文化之间的联系做出解读;其二,他把研究的焦点放在了乔瑟夫·赛特笠身上,而在分析被商品物化了的人物的症状时几乎未提利蓓加。本文指出,利蓓加仍然算得上全书的主角,她所折射出来的商品文化现象值得重视。

Two defects can be found in Christoph Lindner’s analysis of Vanity Fair. First, he has failed to read into the relationship between the narrative of “progress” and the commodity culture. Second, he focuses his research on Joseph Sedley to such an extent that Rebecca is hardly mentioned in his analysis of the symptoms of the reified characters in the novel. Rebecca is, after all, the protagonist in the story. The commodity culture refracted from her is, therefore, worthy of the reader’s attention.