《星期六》中当代都市人的情感书写

Emotional writing of contemporary urbanite in Saturday

在当代英国小说家中,伊恩·麦克尤恩的小说对情感问题的揭示可谓深刻。与以往研究不同,本文认为小说《星期六》中所呈现的并非只是科技文明和都市文化本身引发了主人公亨利·贝罗安的情感危机,文本中所呈现的也并不止是“焦虑”这一单一性的情感危机,而是一张由混乱和焦虑、冷漠、恐惧等多重情感交织的网。世界政局不稳、宗教文明的衰落以及衰老和死亡的威胁则是引发人物这些情感危机的根源。本文通过探索贝罗安的情感世界,最终发现,他对他者、对信仰、对理性的认识发生了微妙的变化。贝罗安的情感救赎之路凸显了道德情感的人文价值,这对于物质富裕而情感匮乏的当代都市人来说,具有一定的现实意义。

Among the contemporary British novelists,lan McEwan's novels have a profound revelation of emotional problems.Different from previous studies,this essay argues that what is shown in Saturday is not just the scientific and technological civ-ilization or urban culture themselves that cause the heroine Henry Perowne's emotional crisis and Saturday presents not just the singular emotional crisis of""anxiety",but a web of multiple emotions intertwined with emotional confusion and anxiety,indifference and fear.The instability of political situation,the decline of religious civilization,and the threat of aging and death are the root that cause Perowne's such complex emotions.By tracing Perowne's emotional journey,the author finally discovers that his epistemology has undergone a subtle change towards the other,the religious belief and the reason.Perowne's journey of emotional redemption highlights the humanist value of moral emotion.It has realistic significance for contemporary urbanite who are financially affluent but emotionally starving.