《裸者与死者》的存在主义表现

美国当代作家诺曼.梅勒的成名作《裸者与死者》,虽以第二次世界大战为背景题材,却表现了比战争更为深广的社会内容。梅勒通过危及自身的异己力量、没有目标和追求的虚无主义以及充满绝望和恐惧的悲观主义三个方面,践行了存在主义文学的创作思想。小说的存在主义表现,不仅深刻揭示了美国社会存在的种种矛盾,也对战后美国人民的心理作了深刻的剖析和探寻。

Existentialism embodied in the Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead,Mailer's fame-setting fiction,is set in the Second World War.However this work displays deeper and broader social meanings than the war itself may convey.The existentialist literary writing ideology is realized by way of depicting three social phenomena: dissidents' power endangering ego-centered existence;nihilism expressing people's lacking of any goals to pursue,and pessimism being filled up with fear and despair.The fiction not only discloses the American social contradictions,but also carries out a deep research and analysis on the American people's mentality of that age.