狗先生眼中的美国社会——保罗·奥斯特的《在地图结束的地方》评析

American society in the eyes of Mr. Dog:On Paul Auster's Timbuktu

在《在地图结束的地方》中,当代美国著名作家保罗·奥斯特塑造了一个温和、文明、有思想、懂隐忍的小狗主人公骨头先生,从动物的视角观察社会百态。小说通过骨头先生的所见所闻,提醒人们摒弃男性中心主义和人类中心主义观念,批判消费主义的种种弊端,倡导建立和谐的人类与动物关系,关注精神生态,反映了作者独特的生态伦理意识。

In his novella Timbuktu,Paul Auster,a well-known contemporary American writer,takes a gentle,civilized and thinking dog called Mr. Bones as his protagonist. By telling his own various stories,Mr. Bones also shows us his observations of the American society from a dog's point of view,reminding people to get rid of ideas such as anthropocentrism,androcentrism,and consumerism. By paying special attention to spiritual ecology,the work reveals Auster's idea of ecological ethics,advocating harmonious relationship between human beings and animals.