精神荒原中的希望——论《华氏451度》中的记忆书写

Hope in the Spiritual Wasteland——On the Memory Writing ofF ahrenheit 451

美国当代著名科幻小说家布雷德伯里的代表作《华氏451度》虽然投射的是未来世界,但对于过去的记忆却是构成该文本的重要元素。本文以记忆研究为切入点,对《华氏451度》进行解读,指出在文本中过去的美好记忆与现实的精神荒原形成了强烈的对比,而被扭曲、遗忘的记忆则是现实中真相被扭曲、真情被遗忘的明证。在这精神的荒原中,人们唯一的希望就是重拾过去的记忆尤其是书本的记忆,只有这样才能最终走出精神的荒原。

Bradbury,a famous American contemporary science fiction writer,his masterpiece Fahrenheit451reflects the scene of the future world,but the memory of the past is an important element of the text.This paper takes memory research as the starting point and elaborates Fahrenheit451,which points out that in this paper,the good memory of the past has a strong contrast with the lack of reality,and the distorted and forgotten memory is in reality.It is a proof that the truth is distorted and forgotten.In this spiritual emptiness,the only hope for human beings is to recall the memory of the past,especially the memory of the books.Only in this way,can we finally get out of the spiritual wasteland.