生活的万花筒,历史的热寂观——评品钦的长篇小说《V.》中的忧患意识  

The Kaleidoscope Like Life and the Heat Death Oriented History: On Thomas Pynchon's Concern about Man's Fate as Reflected in His Novel V.

作　　者：叶华年[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海师范大学外国语学院,上海200234

出　　处：《上海师范大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》2003年第3期52-57,共6页Journal of Shanghai Normal University(Philosophy & Social Sciences Edition)

摘　　要：美国当代作家品钦在他的后现代主义风格的长篇小说《V.》中以隐喻的手法应用物理学的热力学第二定律来观照人类世界的现状。小说生动地状绘了芸芸众生盲目浮躁的生存姿态和空泛虚幻的人生追求,刻画了社会能量毫无节制地无效甚至有害释放的熵增值现象,预示了历史可能走向热寂的可怖前景,并就此提出了应对的方法。小说直面现实,针砭时弊,结构繁复,文体多变,是一部颇具艺术性的警世佳作。The postmodernist novel V. , by the contemporary American writer Thomas Pynchon, applies the Second Principle of Thermodynamics of physics allegorically to the observation of the human world. It portrays graphically the blind, impatient existence and the vague, illusory pursuit of the mundane people, the fruitless or even disastrous release of human energy, which eventually results in the increase of entropy in society, the horrible prospect of heat death for the earth, and the practical ways to prevent all this from happening. Confronting reality vis-a-vis and critiquing it sagaciously, this novel of complex structure and multiple style proves to be a work of timely admonishment and superb art.

关 键 词：美国 品钦 后现代主义风格 长篇小说 《V.》 隐喻 文学评论 忧患意识 

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