如此真相——戴维·洛奇《如此真相》读解

Such Truth——An Interpretation of David Lodge’s Home Truths

英国作家戴维·洛奇创作的作品《如此真相》,首先以戏剧形式进入大众的视野,获得广泛好评,接着作者将其改编成小说,使其影响力进一步扩大。不同于常规的创作方式,由戏剧改编为小说这种逆向生产本身隐藏着作品特殊的创作背景和作者心灵的秘密。小说文本更加细腻、深刻地揭示了隐藏在社会深处的种种丑陋和人们心灵深处的焦虑,是一部反映世纪之交英国社会深层矛盾的杰作,也是西方“福利国家”和“富裕社会”的一个缩影。

British writer David Lodge’s Home Truths first appeared in the form of a play which won wide acclaim,and was subsequently adapted by Lodge for a novel,which further expanded its influence.Different from regular composition methods,the reverse creation from a play into a novel suggests a special composition background of the work and the author’s inner secret.The novel,which reveals social hypocrisies and people’s deep anxieties in a more subtle and profound way,is a masterpiece reflecting deep social contradiction in the British society at the turn of the twenty-first century.It is also a microcosm of Western“welfare state”and“affluent society”.