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《美丽百合》可以看作是一部厄普代克对以往写作的总结性作品,小说叙述时间从20世纪初开始到80年代末结束,大致涵盖了近一个世纪,与之相应的是,小说讲述了一个家庭几代人不同时期的生活经历,从中不仅可以看出以往作品中一些主题的延续,同时在这部作品中,他从一个更广阔的历史背景对20世纪美国社会的文化变迁和道德嬗变进行了深层次的剖析,揭示了在道德缺失和宗教信仰式微状态下的普通美国社会面临的种种问题。如果其成名作《“兔子”四部曲》是一幅描述当代美国社会生活的画卷,那么《美丽百合》则是一卷浓缩了20世纪美国历史的画面生动的长轴,成为了厄普代克近十年来的一部重要作品。
“Beautiful Lily” can be regarded as a summary works of Updike’s writing in the past. The narration time of the novel from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the 80’s, covering almost a century, and correspondingly, In this work, he not only shows the continuation of some themes in his previous works, but also from a broader historical background to the cultural changes and morality of American society in the 20th century Evolution of the depth analysis, reveals the moral deficiencies and religious micro-state of ordinary American society are facing problems. If its fame “Bunny” and “The Quartet” is a picture depicting contemporary American social life, “Beautiful Lily” is a vivid long axis that condenses the history of 20th-century American history and becomes Upd An important piece of work in the last decade.