“看不见的人”——析霍林赫斯特的《泳池图书馆》

Interpreting Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library

裹着同性恋小说的外衣,英国作家艾伦.霍林赫斯特的《泳池图书馆》穿梭在两个历史纬度间,捕捉了20世纪伦敦两代同性恋者人生轨迹的交织与碰撞。本文通过对两段纠结历史的梳理,旨在展示霍林赫斯特对上世纪80年代伦敦同性恋亚文化状态的鲜活再现,及其与主流文化间交锋与冲突的冷峻的观察、犀利的考量。

Alan Hollinghust's debut novel The Swimming Pool Library is more than a homosexual novel as it appears. As the first major 'crossover' novel from gay fiction to the mainstream,it represents a breakthrough for British gay literature. The artful interweaving of Charles Nantwich's biography which spans the 20th century with that of a 1980s hedonist Will Beckwith,allows Hollinghurst to provide a realistic glimpse of the gay lifestyle in pre-AIDS London and beautifully capture the gay subculture which sits in a confrontative and conflicting relationship with the heterosexual culture at large.