现代人的自我危机:《法国中尉的女人》《收藏家》对比研究

The self-crisis of modern men:A comparison between The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Collector

《收藏家》与《法国中尉的女人》是英国后现代主义作家约翰·福尔斯最受关注的两部作品。这两部小说在结构与语境的巨大差异之下隐含着作者对现代人的心理危机--自我的分裂这一重要却长期被忽略的议题。自我的分裂表现在现实自我与理想自我、外在行为和内在动机的不一致,爱与欲的断裂。约翰·福尔斯的文本创作使人物向内审视自我,在言语和行动中实现自我的重建,使自由成为可能。

The Collector and The French Lieutenant’s Woman are by far the most celebrated novels of John Fowles,a British postmodern writer.Despite of the structural and contextual differences between the two novels,their common concern is the psychological crisis of modern men,namely,the divided self-an important yet long time neglected issue in Fowles’s novels.The self-crisis is represented by the disaccord between the ideal self and real self,the extrinsic behavior and intrinsic motivation,and the separation of love from desire.The protagonists in the two novels make self-perception and reconstruct their self through speech and action,so to make their freedom possible.