希拉里·曼特尔的作品《巨人奥布莱恩》围绕“进步与异化”主题,展现历史人物奥布莱恩及其对手亨特在席卷以伦敦为代表的资本主义社会的进步浪潮中走向异化的过程。通过对进步的代价,如非人文化、非个性化等异化现象的书写,曼特尔从“人”的视角记录了资本主义工业文明在发展进程中的种种矛盾与对立,既有力地反思维多利亚时代到来之前启蒙光环下的“进步”话语,又以史为鉴,书写对当下“进步”的焦虑与忧思。 Hillary Mantle’s Giant O’Brien focuses on the theme of Progress and Alienation to show that historical figure O’Brien and his opponent Hunter are heading toward a wave of progress in the capitalist society sweeping through London as the representative Alienation process. Through the writing of alienation phenomena such as non-human culture and non-personalization, Mantel recorded the contradictions and contradictions in the process of the development of capitalist industrial civilization from the perspective of “people” Reflections on the “Progressive” discourse under the enlightenment aura before the advent of the Victorian era, and taking history as a mirror to write about anxieties and worries about the present “progress”.