“物的意义”:保罗·鲍尔斯作品中的物质文化书写

“The Meaning of Things”——On the writing of material culture in Paul Bowles’s works

美国作家保罗·鲍尔斯是二战后北非最著名的流散作家。他的作品凸显了物质文化书写的重要性。聚焦鲍尔斯早期作品《在山上喝茶》《遮蔽的天空》和《让它下吧》中的物质文化书写,不难发现,物在推动故事情节发展、塑造人物形象、影响人的生存情态以及反映特定历史时期社会生活等方面起着重要作用。

American writer Paul Bowles is the most famous diaspora writer in North Africa after World War II.In his works,he highlights the importance of material culture.Focusing on the material culture in Bowles’s early works,Tea on the Mountain,The Sheltering Sky and Let It Come Down,you have no difficulty in finding that things play an important role in promoting the development of story plots,shaping characters,influencing people’s living conditions and reflecting the social life in a specific historical period.