西蒙作品主题若干解说

A Further Study on the Subject Matters of Simon's Comedies

西蒙笔下的中产阶级在经历了被过度的物质主义腐蚀的美国梦的失落,婚姻中作为认识主体与另一认识主体的权力互动,与作为个体现代人无所依着、进退维谷的尴尬处境与孤独幻灭、沉闷无聊的心态后,在家人或友人的爱中,在自我反省中得到救赎,转向注重精神生活的"欧洲梦"。观众/读者与人物共鸣的种种情感,在观看喜剧的快感与笑中得到宣泄。

The fall of the American Dream, the fine balance of a marriage, arid the psyehological troubles of modem man are the subjeet matters Neil Simon most commonly describes. And by way of comedy, Simon makes people reflect on our problems, and retrieve our purgation following the tradition of the new comedy in ancient Greece and Chekhov.