《在切西尔海滩上》的“性存在”困境动因探源

The Trace to the “Sexuality” Predicament in On Chesil Beach

英国当代作家伊恩·麦克尤恩(Ian McEwan)2007年出版的中篇小说《在切西尔海滩上》(On Chesil Beach)是对1960年代初英国性解放运动前夕保守主义与性自由意识激烈碰撞的集中审视,新婚夫妇分道扬镳的悲剧既是时代的性文化语境变革使然,也饱含了家庭机制与阶级分层同构的创伤缘起。麦克尤恩对人物性存在困境表征的摹写不仅揭示了导致个体性状态异常的心理、社会和文化动因,折射出对特定历史时期社会场域施与个体性意识影响的批判反思,也在对性创伤的多维透视中传递出对性本质的伦理探讨。

British contemporary writer Ian McEwan probes into the fierce conflict between the conservatism and the sexual freedom ideology before the sex liberation at the 1960s in his novella On Chesil Beach （2007）. The farewell between the newly wedded couple reflects the revolution in the sex culture context and embeds the trauma origin existing in the family system and class distribution. McEwan＇s delineation of the sexuality dilemma not only discloses the abnormal physiological, social and cultural origin in person al sexual status, it further exposes the retrospection of the social influence at the historical context and dis cusses the ethical aspect of sexuality in the multi level inspect of sex trauma.