《老无所依》与《基列家书》的老年模态与西部精神重构

Age Identity and Reconstruction of Western Spirit in No Country for Old Man and Gilead

美国作家科马克·麦卡锡与玛丽莲·罗宾逊于新世纪分别推出老年身份书写小说《老无所依》与《基列家书》。前者重在对资本逻辑摧毁传统文化价值的批判,而后者重在权力话语的领域性建构,两者均以老年主体经验为文学再现的路径,旨在突破西部青年神话的物质经验,用以保守精神与价值坚守为核心的老年模态重构当代西部文化内涵。

Both Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson published fictions concerning age identity,No Country for Old man and Gilead respectively,at the turn of the new century.The former critiques the destruction of traditional values by capital logic,while the latter focuses on a construction of territoriality by power discourse.However,both of them writes subjective experience of the aging as a technique to go beyond western myth of the young and to reconstruct western spirit with an identity mode of the elderly rooted in a persistence in conservativism and traditional values.