失败的半生--评V.S.奈保尔的《浮生》

摘要

V.S.奈保尔在获得诺贝尔文学奖之后不久发表了《浮生》。这部带有强烈自传色彩的虚构小说表面上是老生常谈，表现了主人公威利生活的虚无，身处宗主国的文化无力感，对文化身份无根的困惑。但与之前小说不同的是，奈保尔试图通过主人公威利告诉我们，他没有消极等待而是努力地通过不同的方式来寻找上述等问题的答案，他试图要给自己的精神流亡生活找到一个圆满的归宿，但最终失败了，所以，流亡知识分子要想获得文化无根的安全感和完整的人生是很艰难的，小说中，威利的前半生是失败的。%Soon after Naipaul won the Nobel Prize he published his novel named Half A Life which not only reflects the main character’s empty meaningless half a life but also his seeking for the answers to such questions like cultural weakness and rootless culture. However, he failed. As an exilic intellectual he is determined to have an incomplete life with rootless culture. So his half a life is a failure.