卡森·麦卡勒斯(1917—1967)是20世纪40年代活跃在美国文坛的一位女作家,也是美国“南方文艺复兴”继福克纳之后的第二代作家。中篇小说《伤心咖啡馆之歌》是一部扛鼎之作,一直受到评论界的关注,由于作家本人曾在剧作《美妙的平方根》的序言中写道:“我的中心主题是精神隔绝主题。当 Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was a woman writer who was active in the American literature in the 1940s and a second generation writer after the American ”Southern Renaissance“ after Faulkner. The novel ”Song of Sad Cafe“ is a work of carrying a tripod and has always been the focus of critics. Since the writer himself wrote in the preface to the wonderful square root of the play: ”My central theme is Mental isolation theme