“走向消失的存在”:现象学与德里罗的沙漠书写

Phenomenology and Don DeLillo’s Writing of Desert

沙漠是德里罗文学想象中的核心意象之一,但学界目前对德里罗沙漠书写的艺术内涵关注较少,亦缺乏深入挖掘。本文以德里罗的《名字》《欧米伽点》和《K氏零度》三部作品为例,结合海德格尔存在论思想中的现象学解构、还原、建构三个维度,考察沙漠意象如何为德里罗文学创作中的存在主义美学搭建铺陈背景,并认为德里罗的沙漠书写不仅传达了作者的存在主义哲学思想,更形成了对理性和现代技术文明的批判性反思,昭示出当代美国社会中个体的生存境况。

Desert has functioned as one of the central images in DeLillo’s literary imagination, yet its artistic representation has scarcely been considered in DeLillo’s scholarship. Focusing on The Names, Point Omega and Zero K by DeLillo, the paper addresses how the image of desert forms a background for DeLillo’s conception of existentialism through the lens of phenomenological destruction, reduction and construction elaborated by Martin Heidegger. The paper contends that desert writing not only conveys DeLillo’s existentialist engagement, but also reflects his critique of reason and modern technological civilization and his concern for the living condition of contemporary American individuals.