厄普代克长篇小说的宗教之维

On Updike's Upholding Religion in his Novels

厄普代克的长篇小说意在揭示当代美国人的信仰危机:昔日的美国守护上帝,而年轻的美国遗弃上帝,并试图用性替代上帝的位置。厄普代克在作品中描绘了人们在没有上帝的日子中的糟糕生活,通过对这种生活方式的否定,厄普代克指出人们应该回归上帝。

Updike＇ s novels revealed the crisis of faith in contemporary America： the old America protected the God, but the young America abandoned the God and tried to replace the God by sex. Updike described the miserable life without the God in his novels, and pointed out that people should return to religion.