《水泥花园》的地理空间建构及其人物关系悲剧

The Construction of Geographical Space and Tragedy of Relationship among Characters in The Cement Garden

素有"恐怖伊恩"之称的英国当代作家伊恩·麦克尤恩,以其犀利视角、冷峻文风、黑色幽默独树一帜,享誉当代文坛。发表于1978年的中篇小说《水泥花园》,是一个"哥特式的故事",讲述了在失去正常社会秩序和规范的家庭荒原中,未成年孩子们经历着痛苦、无序、混沌的成长。缺乏家长和社会的正确引导与规范,使得未成年孩子们走向迷雾和畸变,最终走向了乱伦的黑暗。"水泥花园"环境下形成了家庭关系的"水泥化":夫妻形同路人;父母对孩子缺乏关爱和引导;兄弟姐妹之间错乱的亲情。

Ian McEwan,the Britain contemporary author,is known as the＂Horrible Ian＂and is famous for his incisive point of view,frosty style of writing and black or dark humorous in the literary world.Novella The Cement Garden,published in 1978,is a＂gothic novel＂that tells about children’s lives in a place where there is no social norms.Under this circumstancechildren have to experience pain,disorder and chaos on their own.Finally,children undergo the sexual hell of incest because they lack of proper parental guidance and knowledge of society norms.＂The cement garden＂lead to＂the cold concrete＂relationships among characters： couples estrange each other as if they are strangers,kids lack of parents’care and guidance,brothers and sisters falling into the morallydegererate relationship.