现代荒原上的西绪福斯--试论海明威小说蕴涵的存在主义主题

"精通现代叙事艺术"、以"冰山原理"著称于世的美国作家海明威,不但是一位小说艺术的风格大师,而且是一位密切关注人类生存状况、积极探索人生道德准则的严肃而深刻的思想家.他的成就,不仅在于他以一个诚实的摄影师的权威将彼时彼地的事物记录下来,他还使我们窥见了永恒的普遍的真理.海明威对战争、暴力、失败、横死的感悟,加深了人们对人生悲剧性的认识;他所倡导的道德准则和"打不败"精神则赋予了世界一种新的意义,从而以一种形象化的方式表达了存在主义哲学的现代内涵.

Modern Sisyphus on "Waste Land"

For his style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration, Hemingway was awarded the Noble Prize in 1954 and is still widely considered as the major American novelist of the mid-twentieth century. The works of Hemingway, by portraying how man utterly threw himself upon to survive in an indifferent world, reveal man's impotence and his despairing courage to assert himself against overwhelming odds. Antagonism toward institutions, alienation from society and its values and traditions, were all illustrated by Hemingway in a figurative style and his philosophy corresponding to the Existentialism in the modern West.