游离的荒原人——凯瑟琳·安·波特《盛开的犹大花》试析

An Isolated Wastelander—— An Analysis on Katherine Anne Porter's "Flowering Judas"

凯瑟琳·安·波特是二十世纪美国文坛上的杰出的短篇小说家,她对创作一直都采取严格认真的态度,这使得篇篇佳作流于其笔端之下。《盛开的犹大花》刻画了墨西哥民族革命中一个热烈追求信仰的女主人公逐渐发现真相的过程,自己原本是一个游离于宗教、革命和爱情之外的荒原人,作品中以圣经中的叛徒犹大的传说讽刺了人对革命理想、宗教和爱情的背叛,表现出作者对革命虚伪的憎恨、宗教背叛的焦虑以及对爱的无能的无助。从而表明人只有真正的信仰和纯洁的爱才能生存,最终奠定了波特作品关怀人性的主基调。

Katherine Anne Porter ranks among the outstanding short-story writers in 20th Century American literature, her writ- ing has been implemented with strict and serious attitude, which contributed to her serial masterpieces. ＂Flowering Judas＂ portrays a heroine who pursues her faith passionately in Mexico national revolution resulting in realizing the truth： she is a wastelander isolated from revolution, religion and love. By adopting the legend of Judas in Holy Bible, this story satirizes human-being＇s betrayal and hypocrisy by demonstrating the hatred of revolution, religious anxiety and impotence of love, and reveals that only genuine faith and love can make people survive, which underlies the main concern of Porter＇s works for human.