厄普代克与冷战政治

素有当代美国社会“编年史家”之称的约翰·厄普代克的创作生涯涵盖整个冷战时期，不仅其本人曾经一度以一种不情愿的方式卷入到美国文坛有关冷战的争论中，其作品也不可避免地以直接或间接的方式涉及到冷战的相关话题。厄普代克的代表作《兔子·安斯特罗姆：四部曲》的主人公“兔子”哈里作为相对保守的中产阶级一员，其价值观念和日常行为也体现了以美苏两国为代表的东西方两个阵营之间在全球范围内进行的冷战的影响，在一定程度上反映了当代美国社会的冷战政治。

Updike and the Cold War Politics

John Updike, who has been known as a “ chronicler” of the 20th century contemporary American society and whose writing career overlapped the Cold War era, not only got involved unwillingly in a debate on the Cold War in the American literary circle, but also wrote works which definitely have to do with some relevant topics about the Cold War in a direct or indirect way. In terms of his value, attitude and daily behavior, Rabbit, the protagonist of John Updike’s representative work “Rabbit Angstrom. A Tetralogy” and a member of the comparatively conservative middle class, serves mostly as an embodiment of both the impact of the Cold War between the two opposing camps represented by American socie the United States and the Soviet Union and the Cold War mentality of the contemporary ty.