有“文学神童”美誉的理查德·梅森的新作《寻欢作乐者的历史》将阶级、宗教与性这三个貌似不相干的主题集于一身。作为成长小说,这部小说以性为媒介探讨了人物之间的阶级冲突和宗教对人性的桎梏。主人公皮特借助自己超凡的魅力实现了对阶级的超越,使自己一步步朝着人生的理想迈进,并客观上促使他的主人马腾摆脱了宗教的束缚,实现了人性的回归。 Richard Mason, whose reputation for literary prodigy as his novel The History of Pleasure Writers, brings together three seemingly unrelated themes of class, religion and sex. As a growing novel, this novel explores the class conflict between characters and religion’s momentary human nature with the medium of sex. With the help of his extraordinary charisma, the hero Peter realized the transcendence of the class, step by step toward the ideal of life and objectively prompted his master Ma Teng to get rid of the shackles of religion and realize the return of humanity.