未知死,焉知生——论毛姆小说的生死观

No Understand of Death,No Comprehension of Life——Maugham's View on Life and Death

毛姆在小说中倾注了其对生存和死亡的关注,他通过对人物的刻画表明自己始终坚持的生死观——死亡与生命如影相随,个体却能在一个上帝神性消弭的年代直面死亡,摆脱死亡恐惧,重建存在的意义。

Somerset Maugham probes deeply into the matter of life and death in his novels. Through the portrayal of characters he displays the view which he holds consistently： Death comes can never escape death, yet one can find the meaning of life by overcoming the fear divinity of god disappears. hand in hand with life. One of death in the era that the