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安德烈·杜布斯的《一位父亲的故事》是篇佳作,被美国当代著名小说家厄普代克选入了《美国最佳短篇小说集,1984》。厄普代克注重小说在结构上的艺术将色,也许正是《一位父亲的故事》那发人深醒的结尾使作品得到了厄普代克的偏爱。确切地说,这是一位有女儿的父亲的故事。它描述了信奉天主教的父亲,在与妻子离异后经受眷孤独、寂寞的折磨,渐渐地将他那种父爱、情爱混杂的感情转移到了女儿身上。女儿酒后开车不幸把人撞伤致死;父亲主动承受心理压力,并设法掩盖了女儿的罪行。整篇故事是父亲的独白,女儿开车撞人的情节也是他在回忆中一一道出的。正是在这种平淡、闲散的唠叨中,父亲爱女甚于爱天主的心理氛围被勾勒出来了。故事结尾时父亲对上帝的回答,既流露出他对宗教的虚伪和冷酷的怨愤,也暗示了他被西方文明折磨得干枯了的内心对诚挚、真实的爱的渴求。
André Dubbus’s “The Story of a Dad” is a masterpiece, selected by the famous contemporary American novelist Updike as “America’s best short story collection, 1984”. Updike pays attention to the structural art of the novel, and perhaps it is the deep-rooted ending of “A Father’s Story” that has given Updike his preference. Exactly, this is the story of a daughters father. It describes a Catholic father who, after divorced from his wife, survives loneliness and loneliness and gradually transfers his affectionate, mixed love affair to his daughter. Daughter drunk driving unfortunately killed the man; father take the initiative to withstand psychological pressure, and managed to cover up her daughter’s crime. The whole story is his father’s monologue, daughters drove the plot is also one of his memories. It is in this plain, idiotic nagging that the daughters of my daughters are sketched out more than the spiritual atmosphere of loving God. The father’s answer to God at the end of the story reveals both his hypocrisy and cold resentment over religion and the thirst for sincere and true love which he has been tortured by Western civilization.