艾利丝·默多克(Iris Murdoch,1919—)在当代英国作家中占有重要的地位。她推崇莎士比亚、托尔斯泰、狄更斯等杰出的古典作家与现实主义作家,以及象亨利·詹姆斯和詹姆斯·乔伊斯等对现代小说影响颇大的作家。因此,她强调在创作中情节与人物必须水乳交融,人物要有鲜明的个性,并且重视偶然因素。关于她强调作品中偶然性的思想,在1971年发表的小说《一个偶然的人》(An Accidental Man)中充分表现出来。默多克的文艺思想与创作技巧都说明这位女作家受到传统文学较大的影响,同时进行创新的试验。在继承传统方 Iris Murdoch (1919-) holds an important place among contemporary English writers. She respected outstanding classical writers and realists like Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dickens, and writers who influenced modern novels like Henry James and James Joyce. Therefore, she emphasizes that the plot and characters must blend in with each other, the characters should have distinct personalities, and attach importance to accidental factors. About her emphasis on the chance of thinking in the work, published in 1971, the novel “An Accidental Man” (An Accidental Man) fully demonstrated. Murdoch’s literary thinking and creative skills both show that the female writer is influenced by the traditional literature and at the same time carries on the experiment of innovation. Inherit the traditional side