《大英博物馆在倒塌》的伊甸园原型解读

戴维·洛奇是一位享有国际声誉的英国小说家兼文学批评家，《大英博物馆在倒塌》是他的早期小说作品。这部小说讲述了天主教徒、学者亚当·爱坡比一天之内的奇遇和奇思妙想，表现了严格遵循教规的天主教徒婚姻生活中的种种荒诞、学者学术生活的无奈与尴尬，凸显了人的情欲和道德、自由意志与权威之间永恒的冲突。小说情节与《圣经》中伊甸园的故事有着千丝万缕的联系。伊甸园的故事不仅是讲人的堕落，还有语言的退化。从伊甸园原型的角度解读这部小说有助于更好地理解小说宗教及文学两大主题。

A Garden Archetypal reading of The British Museum Is Falling Down

David Lodge is a famous British writer as well as literary critic, and The British Museum Is Falling Down is one of his early novels, which tells Adam Appleby＇ s - a Catholic scholar - adventures and fantasies within a day. The novel exposes the weirdness of a Catholic＇ s marital life under the rule of Catholicism as well as the dilemma of a literary scholar. It highlights the eternal conflicts between lust and morality, free will and authority. The novel is in many ways related to the story in Garden of Eden in the Bible, which is not only about the fall of human being but also the degradation of language. Hence, the Garden archetypal approach to the novel can help readers better understand the religious and literary themes of the novel.