《伤心咖啡馆之歌》中的爱与现代主义孤独

On Love and Modernist Loneliness in The Ballad of the Sad Café

卡森·麦卡勒斯的代表作《伤心咖啡馆之歌》表达了孤独的主题,这种孤独在很大程度上是现代主义的。这一主题通过人物之间爱的表现方式、人物对爱的追寻以及失败的过程得到了深刻体现。现代人的爱有着一种单方面的、不长久的、悖谬异化的形态,只是出于维护个人支离破碎的信仰的动机,完全是自我中心主义的情感体验。一个人作为爱者和被爱者的角色无法重合,二者的分裂使任何试图通过爱拯救孤独的尝试最终失败,并且加深了原有的孤独。本文通过分析作品中孤独的人物之间变异的爱,以及爱与现代主义孤独的关系,对小说的主题作出进一步的理解。

Carson McCuller＇ s representative work The Ballad of the Sad Cafe embodies typical theme of loneliness, and the loneliness is to a large extent modernist. The pattern of love between lovers and the process of pursuing and losing love greatly manifest this theme. Modern man＇ s love is a one-dimensional, short-lasted, alienated and absurd experience, for the purpose of maintaining one＇ s broken beliefs. It is absolutely egocentric. As a result, the roles of lover and the beloved on one person can not overlap, the splitting role leads any attempt of breaking loneliness through love to total failure, and further deepens the original loneliness. This paper tends to achieve a better understanding of the theme of this novel through the analysis of the alienated love among the characters and the relationship between love and modernist loneliness.