淡雅的忧伤——试论《唐人街》中的悲剧意识

Shallow Sorrow——On the Tragic Consciousness in Chinatown

林语堂是一位双语作家,他用英文创作了很多作品,《唐人街》就是其中的一部。这部作品应属于移民文学的范畴,具有特殊的意义。它通过一个美国华工家庭的奋斗经历,向读者展示了中美文化的巨大差异,但是我们不能忽视的是,在这部作品中隐约透露着一种悲剧意识,这是林语堂独特人生哲学的一种体现。

Lin Yu-tang was a bilingual writer in Chinese and English,who created many works,one of which is Chinatown.This book should belong to the category of immigrant literature,and is of special significance in depicting great differences between cultures of China and America while accounting a history of a Chinese laborer family struggling in America.In addition,a sense of shallow sorrow underlying the author's life philosophy is one of the features of the book that deserves more attention.