洛杉矶:个人主义英雄的坟墓——解读菲茨杰拉德的《最后的大亨》

Los Angeles:The Tomb of Individual Hero——Interpretation of Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon

在《最后的大亨》中,菲茨杰拉德刻画了一个完美的个人主义英雄——斯塔尔。但浮华奢靡的现代工业城市洛杉矾腐蚀了斯塔尔的心智和道德,耗尽了他的能量和才华,摧毁了他的精神和肉体,成为埋葬英雄的坟基。菲茨杰拉德从自身的人生经历出发,怀抱着农业文明的理想来审视、观照现代城市洛杉矶,认为城市助长了浮华奢靡,使人们远离农业的自然状态,从而导致了其堕落和毁灭。

In The Last Tycoon Fitzgerald depicted a perfect Individualistic Hero： Star. Extravagant modem urban Los Angeles which corroded Star＇s intellectuality and moral, exhausted his energy and talent, destroyed his spirit and flesh became grave of the hero. Following own life experience, Fitzgerald who scanned thought city encoura- ging showy and wasteful life, keeping people far away nature state and leading to degeneration and destroy surveyed modem Los Angeles by agriculture civilization ideal.