用传统手法描绘现实人生——评艾米斯的《幸运的吉姆》

Depicting Real Life with Traditional Method——On Lucky Jim Written by Kingsley Amis

《幸运的吉姆》是英国小说家金斯利.艾米斯的代表作。从20世纪50年代发表伊始,被不同出版社不间断地重印多次。这部小说受欢迎程度如此之高,主要因为其故事情节讨人喜欢;刻画的人物形象平庸而可爱,反映了当时“愤怒的青年”派作家的真实心理;小说语言通俗易懂,直截了当;在写作技巧方面,作者运用反现实主义和实验主义,不着眼于人物内心世界的展示,而着眼于人物的刻画和情节的铺垫。

Lucky Jim is the masterpiece of the British novelist, Kingsley Amis. Since it was published in the 1950s, it has been reprinted continually by different presses. Why does it gain so warm welcome？ The reasons are as follows： The plot is very likeable; the character is common but lovely, which reflects the real psychology of ＂Angry Young Men＂; the language is blunt and easy to understand and in the writing skills, the author is against Realism and Experimentalism. Instead of writing from the angle of revealing the inner world, he pays much more attention to the portrayal of character and plot.