菲利普·罗斯的文学创作:祛魅

Philip Roth's Literary Writing: Disenchantment

祛魅是美国犹太作家菲利普·罗斯创作上的一个重要特征。罗斯通过描写犹太青年的反叛行为,揭示了犹太人心理层面上的祛魅,表达了犹太人对犹太传统的复杂情感。罗斯采用揭示、嘲讽、戏谑、颠覆、解构等作为其文学祛魅的方式;既祛犹太传统与犹太主流话语之魅,又祛美国主流文化价值之魅,是罗斯文学祛魅之特点;而还原人真实、本来的面目,实现人的彻底解放与自由,是罗斯文学祛魅之目的。罗斯的创作彰显了其人道主义精神实质。

Disenchantment is an important feature of Philip Roth’s writing.Through describing the rebellious behaviors of Jewish youths,Roth exposes the disenchantment in Jews’mind,and expresses the complicated feelings toward Jewish tradition.Roth’s ways of literary disenchantment are exposure, satire, banter, subversion and deconstruction. The feature of Roth ’s disenchantment is that he disenchants not only Jewish tradition and mainstream discourse but also American mainstream culture. And the purpose of Roth’s disenchantment is to restore the original and true human nature and achieve complete liberation and freedom of humans.Roth’s writing demonstrates his humanitarianism.