《洪堡的礼物》中的笑与嘲讽

Laughter and Irony in Humboldt's Gift

本文试图从巴赫金的狂欢化理论的角度,在对索尔.贝娄的长篇小说《洪堡的礼物》细读、分析的基础上,研究并归纳出小说中狂欢化广场、脱冕加冕的狂欢节仪式和狂欢化大众等狂欢化喜剧手法。这些手法以其理想主义和喜剧的特性从不同角度反衬和折射出美国现实生活中的异化、沉闷和混乱。

The essay attempts to interpret Saul Bellow＇s Humboldt＇s Gift in light of Bakhtin＇s poetics of carnivalization. The carnival squares, the crowning/ decrowning of carnival king and the carnival collective alive in the novel will be discussed in details. These aspects give the novel a sense of comedy. They possess the idealistic and comic quality, As a contrast, they make the isolation, chaos and dullness in the real life in American society more apparent. They reveal the ironic aspect of the worship of power and money within American middle class intellects and show deep concern about the future of mankind. In this way, they deepened our understanding of the theme of existentialism in the novel.