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约翰·契弗(John Cheever)是当代美国文坛独树一帜的以描写中产阶级生活而闻名的郊区文学家。在小说《茫茫大海》中,契弗以高超的叙述技巧,揭开了美国中产阶级华丽面纱下所暗藏的伦理危机。在种种不可靠叙述中,从叙述者毫不矫饰的内心袒露中,窥见美国中产阶级一直以来小心翼翼遮蔽起来的个人生活;窥见琐屑、庸常、不登大雅之堂的种种细节;窥见存在于夫妻、代际关系之间严重的伦理异化和伦理缺失。不可靠叙述策略的使用不仅拓宽了文本的主题意义,扩充了阅读的审美效果,同时也进一步丰富了读者阐释的维度。
John Cheever is a prominent suburban writer famous for his middle-class life in contemporary American literature. In the novel “The Great Sea,” Cheever, with superb narrative techniques, uncovered the hidden ethical crisis hidden under the magnificent veil of the U.S. middle class. In all the unreliable narratives, from the innermost revelation of the narrator, he peeps out the personal life that the American middle class has long been carefully covered with; it glimpses into all sorts of details of triviality, triflingness, and indignity; , Serious ethical alienation and lack of ethics between generations. The use of unreliable narrative strategies not only widened the theme of the text, expanded the aesthetic effect of reading, but also further enriched the reader’s interpretation of the dimension.