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美国当代著名犹太裔小说家伯纳德·马拉默德最近发表了他的新作《上帝的恩惠》(God’s Grace)。二十多年来,马拉默德的小说一直在致力于探索犹太人的伦理道德,即“为了活下去,犹太人认为应当怎样生活”。1958年发表著名的短篇小说《魔桶》时,作者曾援引艾伯特·坎默斯的话说:“作家的目的在于确保文明不致自我毁灭。”他为人类发明了自我毁灭的手段以致每况愈下而扼腕哀叹。因此,马拉默德的第八部长篇小说,为读者描绘了一片八十年代人类所面临的严重威胁—一毁灭性的核大战后世界末日——的景象。
Bernard Malamud, a famous contemporary Jewish novelist in the United States, recently published his new book God’s Grace. For more than two decades, Malamud’s novels have been devoted to exploring Jewish ethics, “how Jews think they should live in order to survive.” When the famous short story “The Magic Barrel” was published in 1958, the author quoted Albert Cummers as saying: “The writer’s aim is to ensure that civilization does not self-destruct.” He invented the means of self-destruction for mankind and deteriorated Solemnly lament. Therefore, the eighth novels of Malamud depict the audience as a serious threat to mankind in the 1980s, the end of the world after a devastating nuclear war.