纳博科夫影响下的厄普代克

On Updike under the Influence of Nabokov

在美国文坛,约翰·厄普代克常被认为是弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的文学继承者。厄普代克不仅承袭了纳博科夫的文艺风格,并且常以互文的形式将纳博科夫作为文学符号嵌入自己的文学创作中,在文本世界中与这位文学"大师"展开对话。但是,作为读者的厄普代克将纳博科夫纳入美国文学传统的同时,又无法扼制阅读之后的内心焦虑,纳博科夫对小说道德教化的刻意轻视,在厄普代克眼中成为了"大师"创造的瑕疵。

John Updike is tended to be considered as a follower of Nabokov in US. As a writer, Updike not only inherits the literary style from Nabokov, but also often embeds Nabokov as a literary symbol in his literary context in the form of intertextuality, thus to have a conversation with the ＂grandmaster＂. As a reader, however, Updike can＇ t help restraining his anxiety while seeing Nabokov as one part of American native liter- ature. Nabokov＇ s purposely undervaluing of fiction＇ s humanistic content, is regarded as flaws of this ＂grand- master＂ from the perspective of Updike.