权力与人性的冲突——解读诺曼·梅勒的《裸者与死者》

在二战后出现的战争文学中,美国著名作家诺曼·梅勒的《裸者与死者》(1948)被美国学术界认为是二战后最著名的战争小说之一。小说选择以战争为背景,通过战争的表象探讨了人性和社会的深层问题,通过对军事细节和战争性质的关注,焕发了人们对人性自身的觉悟和思考,从而使人性的真实状态得到了充分的表现。本文以这部小说中的人性的特点入手,通过对人性的描写和裸文化意象的运用来探讨战争和人性的纠结关系。

The Naked And The Dead written by Norman Mailer, is regarded as one of the most remarkable novels after the Second World War. Setting the war as its background, he explores the deeper layer of humanities and the society. At the same time, Mailer also concerns about the military details and the nature of the war, which arises people＇ s consciousness and consideration for themselves and displays the real state of humanities completely. The paper will focus on the nature of the humanities and the description of the humanities, as well as the application of the true image to the low culture, probing into the relation of war with the humanity.