《伤心咖啡馆之歌》中的孤独解读与时下中国

Loneliness Interpretation in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Contemporary China

美国南方女作家卡森·麦卡勒斯的中篇小说《伤心咖啡馆之歌》是其叩响中国大门的第一部力作~①,书中三位男女主人公跌宕起伏、扑朔迷离的爱恨情仇延续了她一贯的主题:爱之孤独与爱之无能。基于此,从更大层面挖掘出除爱的孤独以外的其他孤独的表现形式,并将其在中国背景下予以重新解读,揭示出在咖啡馆这个微型世界中蕴含着弥漫在国人心中的各种孤独之殇。精神家园的日益贫瘠所带来的种种问题跨越20世纪的美洲大陆直达中国现当代。

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers is the first masterpiece that is introduced in China. The three heroes and heroines in the book experience ups and downs as well as mysterious love and hatred, which reveals her consistent theme: the loneliness of love and the impotence of love. This paper tries to dig out other forms of loneliness besides love loneliness from a larger perspective, and re-interpret them in the Chinese context, revealing that the mini-world of cafes contains all sorts of loneliness in the hearts of the Chinese people. The increasing impoverishment of spiritual homeland has crossed the American continent in the 20th century and reached contemporary China.