艾里森《看不见的人》的城市景观

On Urban Landscape in Ralph Ellison′s Invisible Man

拉尔夫·艾里森的《看不见的人》的大部分故事情节在纽约城展开,且最终也在那里落幕。在整部小说中,作为后现代大都市,纽约城奢靡的消费现象、典型的都市文化特征、居民贫富两极分化现象、种族歧视引发的暴力等共同构筑了纽约的城市景观。该小说中的典型场景充分反映了20世纪中期纽约的城市特征,表明了作家本人对现代都市生活的独特感悟与价值取向。

Ralph Ellison′s Invisible Manis both unfolded and ended in New York.In the novel,as a post-modernist metropolis,New York′s urban landscape,such as the extravagant consumption phenomena,typical metropolitan cultural characteristics,citizens′polarized gap in wealth,racial violence caused by discrimination,is fully and vividly described.In this novel,the writer presented several typical scenes to fully reflect the characteristics of New York in the middle of the twentieth century,showing his unique perception and value orientation towards the modern life of the city.