论《上来透口气》的时空体特征

On the Chronotope Characteristics of Coming Up for Air

英国作家乔治·奥威尔在《上来透口气》中描写了第一次世界大战给英国社会生活带来的巨大变化以及战后英国社会大众遭遇的精神困境。作者利用不同时空体的交织,展现了主人公乔治·保灵企图回到过去来逃避现实但最终失败的经历,从而告诫人们要接受过去已逝的事实,去直面未来。探析小说时空体特征有助于对文本主题的深度解读。

In Coming Up for Air,the British writer,George Orwell,describes the great changes brought to British social life by the First World War and the spiritual difficulties encountered by the British public after the war.The author uses different space-time bodies to show the protagonist George Pauling's experience of trying to go back to the past to escape from reality,but finally failed,which aims to warn people to accept the past and face the future.Analyzing the space-time features of the novel is helpful to the in-depth interpretation of the text theme.