摘要
菲利普.罗斯的《凡夫俗子》(Everym an)以倒叙的手法讲述了一个普通人的人生历程。主人公凡夫俗子一生经历了种种的疾病和痛苦,承受着肉体和精神的双重折磨,感受到生命结束、死亡到来的可怕,但他最终超越了对肉体毁灭的恐惧与拒斥,以莫大的勇气正视肉体的死亡,以坦然的态度接受生命的终点。罗斯对主人公的刻画已经超越了前期小说创作中种族和身份的主题,凡夫俗子的人生历程不但展示了现代人类生存的处境,也体现了作者对于人的死亡必然性的一种接受和认可。肉体的毁灭是人生的结束,但生命的意义却是人类的全部。罗斯将主人公的生存与死亡置于整个人类命运的大背景下,以一个凡夫俗子的死亡探寻着人类生命的终极意义。
Philip Roth has described an ordinary person＇ s life experience in a flashback in Everyman. After experiencing so many miseries in body and soul, everyman had terrible feeling of approaching death, but he overcame the dread and fear with great braveness and confronted death with the tranquility. Everyman＇ s life manifests the living condition of human being,by this way to show the author＇ s identification and acceptance of death. Death is the end of life, but the meaning of life is everything. Roth connects everyman＇ s life with the destiny of human being and explores the ultimate meaning of human being＇ s life.
出处
《南昌大学学报（人文社会科学版）》
北大核心
2009年第1期114-118,共5页
Journal of Nanchang University(Humanities and Social Sciences)
基金
国家社科基金项目"菲利普.罗斯小说研究"(08CWW004)
