西方文明纵览与反思：《画里画外》研究

海勒出版于1988年的《画里画外》是一部内容丰富的历史小说。本文择要讨论了三个方面：其一是重新审视公元前5世纪雅典黄金时代,揭示战争的非理性和盲目性,以及战争与政治、经济、道德之间错综复杂的关系;其二是选取近代荷兰这个特定历史时期,凸显欧洲资本主义萌芽时期的经济、垄断和扩张及资本主义的本质;其三是通过展示若干历史名人的人生哲学和人生体验,表现作家对于不同的人生信念和不同的人类行为的深远遐想。

Reflection on Western Civilization:A Study of Picture This

Heller's Picture This,published in 1988 is a historical novel with wide-scope content.This article focuses on three major aspects of the novel.First,through the re-examination of the Golden Age of Athens around 461 BC,the novel deeply and vividly reveals the irrationalness and blindness of the war and the complicated relationship between war and politics,economy and ethics.Second,the novel exposes the mechanism of economy,monopolization and expansion of earlier capitalism and the essence of capitalism by us...