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《托诺-邦盖》是英国作家H.G.威尔斯的社会小说代表作。在这部作品中,威尔斯以主人公爱德华的名字做喻,再现了爱德华时代英国中产阶级的生活方式和精神面貌。小说标题是一种假药的名称,与文本中多次出现的“腐朽”“癌症”“荒芜”等字眼遥相呼应,烛照了岌岌可危的社会共同体,传达了威尔斯对商业病态与社会衰退的担忧。以共同体文化为切入视角,从失衡的乡村、失序的都市和荒诞的城郊三个层面分析《托诺-邦盖》,可以感受到威尔斯对英国传统的地域共同体和精神共同体的质疑,体会出威氏对英国社会的精神共同体命运的担忧。
Tono Bonaparte is a social novel masterpiece by British writer H.G. Wells. In this work, Wells uses the name of Edward, the protagonist, as a metaphor to reproduce the life style and mental outlook of the British middle class in the Edwardian era. The title of the novel is the name of a counterfeit drug, echoing the words “decaying”, “cancer”, “barrenness” that appear many times in the text, shining a light on the precarious social community to convey Welles’ Illness and social recession concerns. From the point of view of the community culture, we can find out from the perspectives of the unbalanced countryside, the disorderly cities and the absurd outskirts that we analyze the “Tono-Bonge”, we can feel Wells’ questioning of the traditional regional community and spiritual community in Britain. Worries about the fate of the spiritual community in British society.