现代英国小说

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• The times called, said Lionel Trilling, in The Liberal Imagination(1950),for "moral realism"-a renewed awareness of the danger of history,the unreliability of human nature,a return to"the tragic sense of life."As some turned to religion, Trilling looked to literature. It was no longer politics, now largely discredited for its ideological simplicities, but the novel, with its awareness of difficulty, contradiction, ambiguity, that spoke to the difficult age. But many writers now felt nearer to muteness: if the outbreak of war had brought many close to passive silence,its ending only seemed to prolong that silence inperpetuity. (查看原文)

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• Existentialistic writings: sombre, absurdist, a vision of the emptiness and cruelty of existence, the loss of significance in experience, the'inner vacancy of self. And it also summoned up an endeavour of humanist recovery, in which the writer was centrally implicated. In 1947 Sartre published his study What Is Literature?, a book that had great influence on the writing of the day.It identified post-war writers as the "third generation'of twentieth-century literature, following on from two earlier generations whose task had clearly failed -the bourgeois Modernists of the period before 1914, who had aestheticized art,and the writers of the inter-war Surrealist revolution, unable to decide whether they were the proclaimers of a newworld or the gravediggers of an old. Both were bourgeois voic... (查看原文)

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