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美国新新闻主义创始人之一汤姆.沃尔夫的小说《完美的人》于1998年出版后极受欢迎却又非议颇多。本文通过对小说文本的解读,同时结合作者创作思想与手法的考察,指出《完美的人》是采用不同于传统欧洲思维方式的“社会地位”概念指导下创作的新社会小说;是一部迥异于后现代实验小说、力图承担起“解释美国社会的任务”的文学作品;通过对社会地位驱动下的美国芸芸众生图的生动刻画,《完美的人》解构了当代美国精英阶层的欧洲文化至上的殖民情结。
Tom Wolff, one of the founders of American neo-journalism, was extremely popular but not without much criticism after he published “Perfect Man” in 1998. By reading the novels’ texts and combining with the author’s thoughts and methods of creation, this paper points out that “perfect man” is a new social novel based on the concept of “social status ” different from the traditional European way of thinking; It is different from post-modern experimental novels in an attempt to take on literary works that “explain the mission of American society.” Through the vivid portrayal of the images of all living creatures in the United States driven by social status, Perfect Man deconstructs the contemporary American elite European cultural supremacy of the colonial complex.