发现美国:《在美国》中欧洲经验与美国现实的冲突与融合

Discovering America: the Conflict and Fusion between European Experiences and American Reality in the novel In America

苏珊·桑塔格的小说《在美国》描写了19世纪70年代一群波兰移民移居美国的经历,透过三位主要人物的情感体验突出了"发现美国"的主题。在遭遇欧洲经验与美国现实的冲突之后,这些无所适从的波兰人把美国当成了一个没有道德禁忌的自由之乡,但在不断的自我调适和定位中,他们重新回归了理性的生活,融进了美国这片远离故国家园的全新的土地。

Susan Sontag’s novel In America is about a team of Poles who migrated to America in 1870s.The novel highlights the theme of “discovering America”by exploring the three main characters’emotional experi-ences.When they meet with the conflict between their European experience and the American reality,the bewilder Poles accept America as a free land without any moral taboos firstly,and then they return to a rational life and rec-oncile themselves with the new land away from their homeland after their self-adjustment and self-positioning.