乔纳森·弗兰岑的小说《自由》中的自由阐释

Analysis on the freedom in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom

美国当代作家乔纳森·弗兰岑的小说《自由》,被誉为"那种濒临灭绝的真正好看又伟大的小说",戏剧性地记录了自由带给人们的种种诱惑和情感负担,全方位、多角度地描绘了现代人对自由的挥霍、逃避和道德拷问,进而在其磅礴的时代画面中,展示出美国社会精神的核心观念——自由,是如何蜕变为时代精神堕落的罪恶渊薮,且带给现代人的颇具深度、宽度和广度的生命体验和生命困顿。

Jonathan Franzen is a great contemporary American novelist,whose novel Freedom is hailed as the novel of the century. It dramatically records the temptations and emotional burden too much freedom has brought to modern people,displays in all-embracing angles how modern people consume,escape from and make inquires of freedom,and then reveals how freedom,the core concept of American social spirit,transforms into the sources of evil for degeneration of the spirit of time,accordingly leading to people's experiences and weariness.