《马戏团之夜》是英国当代著名女作家安吉拉·卡特的长篇小说代表作之一。其魅力在于使披露现实的“镜”与指引现实的“灯”得以契合:客观复现与主体表现结合,内外考诘求索,在理性的批判和反思后最终回归到内心经验的真实样态和意向,由“镜子”转向“灯”;借助戏仿和奇想以开放的姿态模糊了理想与理性的界限,在既定现实之内展示了希望维度下的另一种真实,如此既具有突破和引导硬化的现 “Night of Circus” is one of the novel’s masterpieces by Angela Carter, a well-known British contemporary woman writer. Its charm lies in making the “mirror” of the disclosure reality fit with the “light” guiding the reality: the combination of the objective reappearance and the subject’s performance, the internal and external examination, the ultimate return to the inner experience after the rational criticism and reflection The real style and intention, from “mirror” to “lamp”; with the help of parody and fantasy, it openly obscures the boundary between ideal and rationality and presents another kind of hope under the given reality Real, so both breakthrough and guide the hardening of the present