致命的42岁——探究果戈理之谜的新线索

42,a Fatal Age:A New Clue to the Enigma of Gogol

果戈理死于42岁,这一年龄在《施蓬卡》《狂人日记》及《鼻子》三部小说中反复出现,都与主角的婚恋相关。而婚恋要素在作家的创作中具有一贯而独特的模式,即爱情、婚姻等于毁灭,男主角陷入其中非死即疯,必须及时逃离。与创作相对,作家终身未婚,爱情对其来说是毁灭的力量。因而42岁、爱情婚姻、毁灭死亡三要素或许在作家心里形成关联,影响了作家一生。

Gogol died at age 42,and this age occurred repeatedly in Shponka,Diary of A Madman and The Nose,and are all related with love and marriage.The love and marriage elements have a consistent and unique pattern in Gogol’s works:love and marriage mean destruction,and the male must run away from it in time.The case is the same in his life,Gogol didn’t get married all his life.Love was destructive power to him.Therefore,age42,love and marriage,destruction and death may form a connection in the author’s mind and influenced his whole life.