生与死的悖论——从形式主义角度评詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《死者》

Contrariness between Life and Death——On The Dead by James Joyce from the Perspective of Formalism

在作家乔伊斯的小说《死者》中,生与死的对立和悖论构成了文章的基本框架,揭示了文章的主题。作品通过一位爱尔兰知识份子的思想变化过程,揭示了个人的精神危机和社会的道德瘫痪。展现在我们面前的爱尔兰社会死气沉沉,令人窒息,家庭与人际关系充满着矛盾。都柏林人精神空虚,是社会瘫痪的体现和精神上的死者。

In The Dead, the contrast and paradox between life and death helps to form the basic structure and unravel the themes of this short story. By narrating how an Irish intellectual gradually arrives at self-revelation, Joyce reveals personal psycho crisis and the paralysis of social morals. The Irish society was shown to be deadly and suffocative; the relations between people and in the family were full of conflicts. The hollow Dubliners were representatives of the social paralysis and actually the dead people in the spiritual sense.