理查德·塞尔泽是美国当代知名作家,他的创作来源于他作为外科医生的经历。他运用小说、散文、笔记等体裁集中展示人体所遭受的病痛,并试图揭示肢体病痛的意义。小说《掷铁饼者》可以看作他的典型作品之一,这篇小说刻画了一个濒临死亡的老者在肉体与灵魂遭受双重折磨的苦难中试图保持尊严的努力。《掷铁饼者》原为古希腊雕刻家米隆的青铜作品,被看作古希腊雕塑美的典范。作者用它做题目来描写一个肢体残缺的老者,形成了小说题目与小说内容之间 Richard Selzer is a well-known contemporary American writer, his creation stems from his experience as a surgeon. Using such genres as novels, essays and notes, he focuses on the human suffering and attempts to reveal the meaning of limb pain. As one of his typical works, the novel “Discus Throne” depicts a dying old man trying to maintain his dignity in the double torture of the body and soul. The “discus thrower” was originally a bronze work of the ancient Greek sculptor Milon and was regarded as a model of the beauty of ancient Greek sculpture. The author uses it as a topic to describe a physically handicapped old man and forms the subject of the novel and the content of the novel