《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》中鲁滨孙的抗拒及其根源

Robinson's Resistance and Its reasons in Friday,or,The Other Island

《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是米歇尔·图尼埃于1967年发表的小说。它戏仿《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材,但主题和结局与其相反。在故事中,鲁滨孙因意外来到荒岛上,企图以西方文明社会的模式治理荒岛。随后,野蛮人礼拜五来到这里,以其自然天性破坏鲁滨孙在此建立的文明秩序,也逐渐影响了鲁滨孙。最终鲁滨孙自愿留在荒岛,拒绝返回文明社会。鲁滨孙在不同阶段表现出不同的"抗拒":对荒岛即对原始社会的抗拒,对礼拜五即对野蛮人的抗拒,对回归即对文明社会的抗拒。这种抗拒的缘由,可以从对平衡与秩序的追求方面进行分析。作品的深层内涵展现了作者"回归自然"的理念以及对西方文明弊病的思考。

Friday,or,The Other Island is a novel written by Michel Tournier in 1967. The novel restates Daniel Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe with the opposite theme and ending. In the story,Robinson Crusoe came to a desert island accidentally,attempting to civilize and govern the island with the mode of civilized western society.Then,a barbarian,Friday came here. Little by little,he ruined the civilized order that Robinson had established with his natural instinct,and also affected Robinson. Eventually,Robinson volunteered to stay on the island and refused to return to civilized society. Robinson＇s resistance appears at different stages： resistance to the desert island is to the primitive society,resistance to Friday is to the savages,and resistance to return is to the civilized society. The paper puts forward reasons of this resistance from the pursuit of balance and order. The deeper connotation of this novel shows author＇s concept of ＂returning to nature＂and thoughts on the problems of western civilization.