阿兰·德波顿的小说艺术——谈《爱情笔记》

The Artistic Style of Alain de Botton's Novels——On Essays in Love

阿兰?德波顿是深受欧美广大读者喜爱的英国青年学者型作家。他的小说轻情节重分析,视角独特写法新颖,被誉为"德波顿式"的新型小说艺术。本文以《爱情笔记》为例,从他对爱情哲理的睿智遐想、调侃式细节描写、图表式的理性分析三方面探讨他的独特小说创作手法。

As a modem scholastic young writer, Alain de Botton is very popular among European and American readers. He focuses on the philosophical analysis of love instead of the development of the plots in his novels, which contributes to his special style of novel writing. This paper aims at analyzing his skills of novel writing in Essays in Love from three aspects： the philosophical analysis of love, the ironic way of detail description and his rational analysis with graphs.