自在与自为的对抗:《鬼路》中普莱尔创伤后的生存困境

Confrontation Between In-itself and For-itself: Prior’s Existent Straits after Trauma in The Ghost Road

《鬼路》是帕特·巴克《<再生>三部曲》的最后一卷,讲述了因一战而罹患弹震症的士兵在军队医院接受治疗的过程。本文通过对主人公普莱尔战争创伤后生存困境的描述,采用萨特的自在与自为存在论思想,分析主人公自我对抗、矛盾与困惑地走完人生最后"鬼路"的原因,从存在主义视角以一种独特的方式痛切思考经历战争杀戮之后人的生存前景。

The Ghost Road, describing a group of shell-shocked soldiers’ healing process in a military hospital during WWI, is the last volume of Regeneration Trilogy written by Pat Barker, a famous female contemporary British novelist. This thesis illustrates the protagonist Prior’s existent straits after trauma to interpret the reason of his rest 'ghost' life with self-confrontation, ambivalence and perplexities from the perspective of Sartre’s existentialist theory of in-itself and for-itself, then launches a thorough thinking about the prospect of existence after war and slaughter from the view of Existentialism.