爱欲与身份——霍华德·雅各布森小说《芬克勒问题》中的三角欲望与身份追寻

Eros and Identity:Triangle Desire and Identity Pursuit in Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question

2010年霍华德·雅各布森凭借小说《芬克勒问题》获得英国小说最高奖“布克奖”。该小说以非犹太人特雷斯洛夫及其两位犹太朋友芬克勒和利博尔的生活为主线,探讨了犹太人的身份认同、反犹太复国主义、反犹主义等问题。作者通过塑造特雷斯洛夫这一形象,不仅探讨了犹太人问题,而且通过特雷斯洛夫对犹太女性的爱欲展现其对犹太文化的追寻,在这追寻过程中探讨了更普遍的欲望与自我的问题,显示出作者对现代人在以他人欲望为自我欲望时主体性丧失的深层次担忧。

In 2010,Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question.The novel explores Jewish identity,anti-Zionism,anti-Semitism and other issues based on the lives of the non-Jewish Treslove and his two Jewish friends Finkler and Libor.The author not only discusses the Jewish problem by creating the image of Treslove,but also reveals Treslove’s pursuit of Jewish culture through his lust for Jewish women.In this pursuit process,the author explores the more general issues of desire and self,and at the same time it shows the author’s deeper concern about the loss of subjectivity when modern people take others’desires as their own.