传统与实验的完美融合——评福尔斯《法国中尉的女人》

《法国中尉的女人》是福尔斯最具代表性的小说。小说用20世纪的视角,讲述了一个发生在19世纪中期英国维多利亚时代的爱情故事。在这部小说中既有传统的现实主义手法,又有浓重的实验小说气息。福尔斯借后现代主义叙事技巧实现了对维多利亚社会意识形态的批判,宣扬了存在主义自由观,以此达到了叙事和主题的完美结合。

Perfect Fusion of Tradition and Experimentation on John Fowles' French Lieutenant's Woman

French Lieutenant＇s Woman is John Fowles＇ most distinctive novel.The author tells us a love story which happened in English Victorian period in the mid 19th century with the perspective of 20th century.In this novel,both traditional realism writing and experimental writing are used.Fowles realizes his criticism to Victorian social ideology by using postmodern narrative skills and promotes the concept of existential freedom,thus achieves the perfect fusion of tradition and experimentation.