迷惘与挣扎:麦克·尤恩小说《甜牙》的城市书写

Lost and Struggle:The Urban Narrative in Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth

伊恩·麦克·尤恩的小说《甜牙》通过城市漫游的叙述方式展现英国伦敦及其周边小镇的物理景观和人文风貌,书写了七十年代英国死气沉沉的社会病态症候和城市人群的精神危机。运用城市符号学理论,剖析了当时英国城市物理空间、社会空间以及人群精神空间特征,试图呈现城市个体精神危机与城市病态表象间相互映衬的联系,影射英国工业化、城市化发展中迷惘与挣扎的困境。

Sweet Tooth written by Ian McEwan presents the physical and cultural landscape of London and its surroundings through the narration of urban roaming,describing the lifeless symptoms of the 1970 s and the mental crisis of the citizens.In accordance with the theory of urban semiotics,the analysis of the characteristics of physical space,social space and people’s spiritual space in the city would be focused,illustrating the correlation between the individual spiritual crisis of the urban residents and the pathological appearance of the city,so as to reflect the plight of the British’s lost and struggling in the process of industrialization and urbanization.