直面荒诞与自由的生命悲歌──“边境三部曲”的存在主义初探

The Life Lament of Facing Absurdity and Freedom——An Approach to the Existentialism in Border Trilogy

科马克·麦卡锡(Cormac McCarthy,1933—)是一位获普利策奖的美国小说家,文学批评家哈罗德·布鲁姆(Harold Bloom)把他和托马斯·品钦、唐·德里罗、菲利普·罗斯一起,列为当代美国最主要的四大小说家。《骏马》、《穿越》、《平原上的城市》构成了科马克·麦卡锡的"边境三部曲"。在三部小说中,麦卡锡记述了两名年轻的牛仔少年在美国西南部与墨西哥边境的生活状况。为了寻求理想的天堂,他们盘旋于世界的边缘。《边境三部曲》中充满了悲痛与荒诞,是一部精妙的美国边境挽歌。

Cormac McCarthy （1933 - ） is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American novelist. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. The three novels, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, of Cormac McCarthy＇s Border Trilogy constitute a genuine American epic. McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young cowboys in the Southwest of America and Mexico. They are poising on the edge of a world and willing to seek their ideal paradise. Filled with sorrow and absurdity, the Border Trilogy is a masterful elegy for the American frontier.