莱辛一直关注女性经验和两性关系,她以往的小说有很多都涉及这方面的主题。莱辛在她的新作《裂缝》中也表现出对相关主题的关注。在解构希腊罗马神话的同时,这本小说创造出了一个独特而新奇的人类起源神话:在女性出现很久之后才有了男性的诞生。而从男性诞生伊始也即开始了两性关系的冲突、斗争、和解与相互依存。选取两性关系产生之初来切入这个主题,无疑使对这个问题的探讨具有了原型的意义。而通过远古女性麦儿和罗马史学家两个叙事人、从两个视角讲述故事,使我们听到了来自不同性别的不同声音,同时也使远古时代和古罗马男权社会的两性关系形成了强烈的对比,让我们感受到男性掌握话语权之后对事实的歪曲和篡改,也让我们看到了女性在男权社会中转变为他者的命运。 Lessing has always been concerned about the female experience and gender relations, many of her previous novels involved in this area. Lessing in her new book “Crack” also showed concern on the subject. While deconstructing Greek and Roman mythology, the novel creates a unique and novel myth of human origins: the birth of a man long after the woman appeared. The conflict, struggle, reconciliation and interdependence of the sexual relations have also started from the birth of men. The selection of the beginning of the relationship between the sexes to cut into this topic, no doubt make the discussion on this issue has the significance of the prototype. Through two narrats, the ancient women’s wheat and the Roman historians, tells the story from two perspectives, so that we can hear different voices from different genders. At the same time, the relationship between the ancestry and ancient Roman patriarchal society has become stronger Let us feel the fact that the male has the distortion and tampering of the facts after he has held the power of discourse, and let us also see the fate of women in the patriarchal society.