论《马语者》中的悲剧意识

The Awareness of Tragedy in The Horse Whisperer

尼古拉斯·埃文斯的长篇小说《马语者》中充溢着极为浓郁的悲剧气氛,体现了作家强烈的生命悲剧意识,这种悲剧意识是通过文本中多重层面的悲剧来表现的,如身份悲剧、社会文化悲剧、家庭悲剧、爱情悲剧等等。并且,这种悲剧意识和当代的历史文化语境有着密不可分的关系,体现了作家对当代美国社会的思考。同时,在这部作品中,作家也对这些悲剧的救赎之道作出了探讨。

The novel The Horse Whisperer written by Nicholas Evans is pervaded with the atmosphere of tragedy,which demonstrates the writer＇s strong awareness of tragedy in life through multi-dimension tragedies in the novel,such as the tragedy of identification,social culture,family,love and so forth.In addition,such awareness of tragedy is closely connected with cultural context in modern times and reveals his thinking on modern America.Meanwhile,the writer also tries to seek means of redemption.