《心是孤独的猎手》中的主题分析(5700字)
摘 要：《心是孤独的猎手》是二十世纪四十年代美国著名作家卡森•麦卡勒斯的第一部成名作。这部作品曾在兰登书屋美国“现代文库”评选出的“二十世纪百佳英文小说”中排名第十七位。本文从“孤独”、“美国梦”、“种族歧视”三个方面来剖析作品的主题，从而揭示小说深邃的内涵。
关键词：心是孤独的猎手；卡森•麦卡勒斯；主题
On the Theme of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Abstract: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is the first well-known novel of Carson McCullers’, an important American writer in 1940s. This book has been selected as one of the “Pokka Twentieth Century English Novels”, ranking the seventeenth one by the Random House American Modern Library. This paper attempts to analyze the theme in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter from three aspects: loneliness, American dream and racial discrimination, so as to reveal the deep meaning of the work.
Key words: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Carson McCullers; Theme
Introduction
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. Wonderfully accustom to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers presents a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. |
