对立生活版本的并置与犹太文化身份的探寻——评菲利普·罗思的小说《反生活》

Juxtaposition of Versions of Contrapuntal Lives and Pursuit of Jewish Cultural Identity

罗思1986年出版的长篇小说《反生活》因其荒诞不经的故事内容和颇具后现代风格的叙事技巧而被评论界视为罗思最为"晦涩难懂的实验性小说"。本文认为在这样一种令人费解的文本表象背后,小说展现的是作家对于犹太文化身份的思考。作家第一次将这一问题的探讨延伸到了世界范围,并通过并置对立生活的不同版本来表现当代犹太人寻求文化身份的多重维度的思考。

Philip Roth＇s novel, The Counterlife, published in 1986, has been deemed as one of his most complex and intricate experimental novels for its absurd and grotesque content and postmodern narrative techniques. This paper aims to reveal that what underlies this obtuse and incalculable textual abnormality is the novelist＇s deep concern with Jewish cultural identity. In the novel, he explores for the first time the issue of identity from a world perspective, and the juxtaposition of various versions of contrapuntal lives in this novel reveals his multi-perspective exploration of the contemporary Jewish people in their pursuit of Jewish cultural identity.