斯坦贝克《战地随笔》分析

《战地随笔》是斯坦贝克的一本军事散文集,内收作者1943年任战地记者时写的52篇通讯,这些通讯不是“纯新闻”,而是出色的文学作品。作者的视角始终对准了士兵,用恬淡的笔调抒写在艰苦的环境中士兵们真实而丰富的内心世界:紧张情绪和求生欲望,乡思,对异域的敏感,同战区妇女儿童之间的友情,以及生活情趣,幽默滑稽……他让读者看到即使在残酷的二次大战期间人性也不曾泯灭。本文重点分析了该书这一主题特色以及斯坦贝克式语言。

Reflections on John Steinbeck's Once There Was a War

In THIS ARTICLE: Once There Was a War is good journalism, but good literature as well. Here are the hard-hitting dispatches that John Steinbeck wrote from England, Africa and Italy at the height of World War II. Steinbeck was not interested in strategy and general but in feeling and emotion of the soldiers. No one ever excelled him in this field. The pieces deftly underline the human element that survives even in the midst of war's impersonality. If you have forgotten what that was like, Steinbeck will refresh you. The article also analyzes the language of Steinbeck's style in this book.