艾伦·坡在其中篇小说《凹凸山的传说》中,使用精湛的艺术创作手法探索了人类灵魂深处的奥秘。小说故事情节含糊晦涩,充满复活、死亡、恐怖等哥特元素,而小说叙述围绕死亡这一主题展开,更探讨了催眠与死亡的关系。在艾伦·坡的小说中,催眠都与死亡紧密联系,小说故意含糊的情节、不可靠的叙述者看似制造了死亡之谜,但在故事之外,作者的声音却从未真正地沉默。 Allan Poe explored the mysteries of the depths of human souls using his superb artistry in his novel The Bump Mountain Legend. The plot of the novel is vague and obscure, full of Gothic elements such as resurrection, death and terror. The novel narrates the theme of death and discusses the relationship between hypnosis and death. In Allan Poe’s novels, hypnosis is closely linked with death, the deliberate ambiguity of the novel, the unreliable narrator seems to create the mystery of death, but beyond the story, the author’s voice has never really silence .