格雷厄姆·斯威夫特的小说建构在当代历史与想象的大话语语境之中,以及对现实进行历史性的想象之中,融入了对重大的社会问题的思考,在这一思考的过程中死亡叙事成为贯穿其中的一条重要线索。作者对于死亡的思考是为了人类更好地生,而人类在对死亡进行自由选择时,责任也随之而来。生与死、自由与责任二者之间的辩证关系有机的交织在一起,由此而表现出斯威夫特作为一个具有着强烈社会责任感的作家,对于人类生存现状的深刻思索。 Graham Swift’s novels are constructed in the context of the contemporary discourse of the history and imagination, as well as historical imagination of the reality, which incorporates the thinking of major social issues. In the course of this thinking The narrative of death becomes an important clue running through it. The author’s thinking about death is for better humankind’s life, and human beings are responsible for the freedom of death. The dialectical relationship between life and death, freedom and responsibility is intertwined organically, thus showing Swift as a writer with a strong sense of social responsibility and thinking deeply about the present condition of human existence.