解读《生命的层级》中的爱与死亡主题

Interpretation of Love and Death in Levels of Life

爱与死亡一直是人类不断思索的问题。英国著名作家朱利安·巴恩斯的小说《生命的层级》(Levels of Life)中集中探讨了爱和死亡的话题,折射出当代人生存中的困境,延续了其对爱情、存在和对终极的叩问。巴恩斯旨在告诫人们要学会直面爱与死亡,通过文字表面的情感刻画,引发人们对于爱和死亡本身所具有的历史和道德意义的思考,理解个体存在的意义与价值。

Love and death have always been a constant question for human beings.Julian Barnes,a famous contemporary British writer,focused on the topics of love and death in his novel Levels of Life,reflecting the predicament of contemporary people's existence.The novel continues Barnes'inquiries about love,existence and death.Barnes aims to tell people to learn to face love and death,through the emotional words,to trigger people's thinking about the historical and moral significance of love and death itself,and to confirm the meaning and value of individual existence.