“垮掉的一代”是第二次世界大战后在美国出现的一个由年轻诗人和作家组成的集合体,是这一特殊时期风行于美国的重要文学流派之一。这一流派的作家们蔑视世俗观念、放荡不羁,厌弃学业和工作,拒绝承担任何社会义务,生活对于他们来说就是不断寻求刺激的漫漫旅途,凡是和传统价值观相悖的行为,他们都甘之如饴。吸毒、逃避、沉沦, The Beat Generation is a collection of young poets and writers emerging in the United States after the Second World War. It is one of the major literary genres popular in the United States during this special period. Writers of this genre despise worldly ideas, boastful, dislike their studies and work, refuse to undertake any social obligations, and life is a long and exciting journey for them. All of them behave in a way that is contrary to traditional values. Drug abuse, escape, sink,