《幸运的吉姆》中的“沉重”和“轻逸”

Heaviness and Lightness in Lucky Jim

金斯利·艾米斯是二战后英国杰出的现实主义小说家,同时也是英国"愤怒的青年"小说流派的代表人物之一。其代表作《幸运的吉姆》讲述了一个出身于中下层社会的知识青年吉姆·迪克森在一家大学任教但不容于重视出身的上层社会而闹得笑话百出的故事。金斯利·艾米斯一方面表现了主人公吉姆所处的"沉重"的世界;另一方面他也借用"轻逸"的视觉意象、轻质的语言和人物形象,表达了主人公对沉重的主流文化的成功抗击。

Kingsley Amis is a famous British realistic novelist after the Second World War. He is also one of the representatives of＂The Angry Young Man＂. His masterpiece Lucky Jim tells a comic story about an educated young man, Jim Dixon, who comes from the low-er-middle class and works as a lecturer in a university, struggles to keep his job but fails to put himself in the upper-class which values one＇s origin. On one hand, Kingsley Amis describes the＂heavy＂world that the hero Jim is put in;on the other hand, he also uses visual images,＂light＂language and＂light＂characters to portray Jim＇s victorious fight against the＂heavy＂mainstream culture.