精神孤独者的哀歌——浅谈卡森·麦卡勒斯小说的主题思想

A Mournful Song of Spiritual Loneliness——On the Thematic Meanings of Carson McCullers's Fiction

卡森.麦卡勒斯是一位著名的也可能是最有争议的美国女性作家。今天,越来越多的读者喜欢阅读她的作品,这些作品需要我们作出大量的阐释。运用社会学的批评方法,对麦氏的《心是孤独的猎手》、《伤心咖啡馆之歌》和《婚礼的成员》三部小说反映出的主题思想作一粗浅的探索,以便引起广大读者的关注,并对其社会意义作进一步的研究。

Carson McCullers is a famous American woman writer, and quite possibly a most controversial one. Today more and more readers like reading her works, which require a considerable amount of explication. Employing the sociological approach, the paper intends to make a probe into the thematic meanings reflected in MeCullers＇ s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and The Member of the Wedding so as to arouse the readers＇ concern and make a thorough study of their social significance.