厄普代克和他的兔子

厄普代克是一位平凡而独特的美国当代作家。作为同代人中最有天赋的创作家，他在三十八年的漫长创作生涯中成果累累，尤以兔子四部曲为最突出的艺术成就，它横贯于他的创作盛年。由于他早年深厚的知识积累和存在主义哲学的影响，他在四部曲中以极精细的笔触将意识流、荒诞等与现代生活融为一体以增加作品的可读性和艺术性。他在讨论性爱的地位及宗教的价值时以悲剧性的事件来揭示矛盾冲突的剧烈，从而深化了作品的主题，并最终达到探讨人类一般处境和人性一般特点的目的。

UPDIKE AND HIS RABBIT

John Updike is a plain yet unique modern American writer. As the most gifted creative writer among his contemporaries, he has left behind a large number of literary works and established his reputation as a writer as long as thiry-eighl years. Of all his works, the Rabbit quartet, written in the prime of his day, is accepted as the most prominent artistic achievement. Because ofhis excellent learning he accomplished at Harvard and the strong influence by existentialism in his early years, the author tells the story in the quartet in a fine tone and a subtle way, combining absurdity, and streams of consciousness with the modem life, which adds to the readability and artistry of the work. In respect of the position of sex and value of religion. Updike discloses the intensifying conflicts with tragic events to deepen the works` theme, which successfully reveals the paradox and the general nature of human beings.