美国本土小说的独立之路

美国小说一开始是从对英国小说的模仿起步的,但一代又一代的美国小说家不遗余力地致力于本土小说的发展,从欧文、库柏到爱伦·坡、霍桑、梅尔维尔,从马克·吐温到海明威和福克纳,美国小说从起初对英国小说的亦步亦趋,到后来的半推半就,最后终于完全摆脱了英国小说的羁绊,从创作题材到文体风格等,都一步步走向独立,形成了完全属于美利坚地方特色和民族气派的小说传统,登上了20世纪小说美学的高峰。

The Development of Native American Novels

Native American novels started from the imitation of English fictions, yet generations of native novelists, form Washington Irving, Cooper to Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne and Melville, from Mark Twain to Earnest Hemingway and William Faulkner, spared no efforts to achieve the independence of American novels. Under their efforts, native American novels finally shook off the yoke of English novels, created its own features, in both themes and styles, and reached the summit of aesthetics of fictions in 20th century.