菲利普·罗斯是美国当代犹太小说家中的杰出代表,他的《美国牧歌》讲述了犹太移民瑞典佬,其美国田园梦的悲剧性破灭。小说是一首罗斯式的挽歌,罗斯在嘲讽对美国梦的伤感怀念和人们面对瑞典佬崩溃时的无能为力时,将笑声与痛苦,喜剧与致命严肃结合了起来。 Phillip Rose is an outstanding representative of contemporary Jewish novelists in the United States. His “American Pastoral” tells the story of Jewish immigrants who swept the American pastoral dream in a tragedy. The novel is a lavish elegy, a combination of laughter and pain, comedy and fatalism when she mocked the sad memories of the American dream and the people’s incapacity to confront the collapse of the Swedes.