论奥康纳小说的真实观与宗教观

On O'Connor's View of Truth and Religion in Her Fictions

美国著名作家弗兰纳里·奥康纳认为文学表现的价值在于展现作者所见证到的而非提出理论。对于如何去见证,她提出了将宗教信仰与艺术忠实相统一、反映更为本真的现实的"距离的现实主义"主张;她所见证的是信仰缺失的现实世界中无所不在的、显在或潜在的各种罪恶,以惊异感为基本审美效果的"怪诞"是她艺术表现的主要手段;她以自己的见证试图去对抗西方精神世界的虚无,重建信仰。《好人难寻》与《善良的乡下人》突出表现了她的创作特色,显示了文学最为本质的作用:"使看不见的东西被看见。"

Flannery O’Connor,a famous American Southern female writer,thinks that the value of literature lies in what the author can witness to rather than what he or she can theorize. She calls her fictions as“Realism of Distances”,trying to reflect more authentic reality in them. She witnesses ans reveals the ubiquitous,obvious or hissen evils,with“grotesqueness”as the primary means of her ar-tistic expression. She tries to withstans nihilism in her fictions. Her masterpieces A Good Man Is Hard to Find ans Good Country People represent the basic style of her writing,revealing the essential func-tion of literature：to let the invisible things be seen.