科马克·麦卡锡南方小说《沙崔》的城市书写

On the City Writing in Cormac McCarthy’s Southern Novel Suttree

《沙崔》是麦卡锡最有代表性的南方小说,也是一部真正的城市小说。麦卡锡在小说中真实再现了20世纪50年代早期诺克斯维尔的城市景观。在现代化大潮的冲击下,诺克斯维尔的外在和内在景观都呈现出一派荒原景象,自然环境破坏、精神家园失落。但南方大地依然蕴含着生机,南方社会仍见人们对精神家园的守护。作为一个具有科学人文主义思想的作家,麦卡锡以诺克斯维尔城市的荒原景观为鉴,提醒人们在发展中要做到科技和人文并重,以人文精神规约科技发展,以实现人与自然、人与社会、人与人之间的和谐共生。

Suttree is McCarthy’s most representative southern novel,and also a truly urban novel,in which McCarthy makes a truthful representative of the city landscape of Knoxville in the early 1950s.Under the impact of modernization,both Knoxville’s outer and inner landscape take on a wasteland look,with natural environment damaged and people’s spiritual home lost.But vitality is still preserved in the Southern land,and guarding forces of people’s spiritual homeland still exist in society.As a writer with ideas of scientific humanism,McCarthy has always been concerned with the relationship between technology and humanism.Taking the wasteland landscape of Knoxville as a lesson,he reminds us that in economic development we should keep a balance between technology and humanism,and regulate technology with humanism,so as to attain a harmonious coexistence between man and nature,man and society,and man and man.