Philip Roth＇s Everyman—— A Contemporary Morality Tale or a Personal Encounter With Death？  

作　　者：Justyna Rusak 

机构地区：[1]University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2011年第8期539-545,共7页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：The aim of this paper is to present the ambiguity accompanying the reading of Philip Roth＇s Everyman （2007） in the face of the multitude of possible interpretations, emphasizing the duality between the autobiographical and non-biographical analysis of the novel. Presentation of the chosen interpretations starts with an approach which perceives certain motifs from Roth＇s text, especially death, as a direct reference to his personal life. Rejected by the author himself, this search for direct allusions to autobiographical strands in his oeuvre is followed by the psychoanalytical reading of the novel, first perceiving the text in Freudian terms as an expression of repressed wishes stored in the author＇s personal unconscious, and then referring to the Jungian mode of treating the recurrent motifs of death and ageing as the archetypical expression of the collective unconscious. To contrast the abovementioned views, the novel is next interpreted as a contemporary morality tale patterned on the medieval play under the same title. This allusion is perceived as the writer＇s compassion for everybody who experiences universal fears of death, pain and ageing, and realizes absurdity of his/her passing life. Concluding the analysis, one may realise the fact that the search for meaning is a multi-layer process and seeking one proper interpretation is a futile attempt.

关 键 词：Everyman PSYCHOANALYSIS morality play 

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