自我身份的悖论——菲利普·罗斯创作中的身份问题探究

The Paradox of Identity in Philip Roth and His Writings

在罗斯的创作过程当中,身份问题一直困惑着他。与其他犹太作家不同的是,罗斯总能结合自身的体验和经历,通过虚构的艺术世界来探讨作家人物的身份困惑,以游戏手法揭示和阐释作家自我和美国犹太人身份之间的身份悖论。在作家人物的艺术塑造过程中,罗斯阐释了美国犹太作家身份的矛盾性:就身份而言,他们既是美国人也是犹太人;就道德准则而言,既有作家良知,也有犹太情结;就生存状态而言,既生活在现实中,也生活在虚构里。论文对犹太作家人物朱克曼的自我身份后面隐藏的各种悖论进行较为全面的分析与阐释,以期对读者从文化深层更透彻地把握和理解罗斯及其文学创作有所助益。

The problem of identity has been harassing Philip Roth in the process of his literary writing. Different from the other Jewish American writers, Roth is especially adroit at utilizing his own Jewish experience to probe the perplexing identity of the Jewish American writer-protagonists. In this way, Roth tries to reveal and interpret the paradoxes of their life ： being both American and Jewish, posed between writer＇ s conscience and Jewish ethics, struggling between fact and fiction.