《屠场》与厄普顿·辛克莱的历史选择

美国作家厄普顿·辛克莱的成名小说《屠场》（中译名）实质上是他为揭露时弊,倡导改革所作的檄文。辛克莱选取芝加哥屠宰场工人的悲惨遭遇为典型事例,以新闻化手法加以纪实性描写,旨在揭露美国工业化时期托拉斯企业非法敛财的恶行。他本人为该书取名《丛林》,正是对美国社会尔虞我诈、你死我活的非常态状况的定义。他的行动表明,唤起公众对托拉斯问题的重视并推动国家给予有效治理乃是他的一个主要创作目的。从某种意义上说,美国“纯洁食品运动”的兴起及《纯净食品与药品管理法》的出台正是辛克莱利用新闻舆论推动国家立法改革的一次成功努力。

The Jungle and Upton Sinclair's Historic Choice

The Jungle,the masterpiece of American novelist Upton Sinclair,was essentially written for disclosing social evils and calling for reform.With a journalistic and documentary method,Sinclair highlighted the plight of Chicago packinghouse workers and those illegal but beneficial competition methods of the trusts in the era of American industrialization.Sinclair's behavior suggests that his main purpose of writing the novel is to attract the public attention to the trust problem and to push forward the federal...